Greenlight Highlight | Lovecraft Tales

Title: Lovecraft Tales
Developer: CVLT
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What type of game is it?

Point & Click Adventure.

What’s the 30 second elevator pitch?

An exploratory point and click game, but with a wide-world layout. You’ll survive the Lovecraftian world through managing your health, sanity, and actions through the non-linear scenario that drives the setting.

What do we like most about it?

The open, exploratory nature of the game is really interesting; I don’t think I’ve seen this combination of genres before – a game which forces you to explore a brutal world, survive in it, while also having to solve puzzles in a graphic adventure style.

Anything else worth shouting about?

The artwork and visual style looks wonderful doesn’t it? My only concern on a visual level is that the main character moves a little too much like a marionette, and certainly needs a little tweaking in the animation, or physics, department.

Other than that, I’m well up for an investigation into the Lovecraftian setting, especially one which has you rummaging around in ruins to find clues, rather than clear cut directions delivered though a too-tight story,

When’s it due?

Lovecraft Tales has no set release date, and the video’s description actually refers to it is an episodic title. Regardless, of when -and how- it does launch it will do so for PC, Mac & Linux.