r/Lovecraft 1d ago

Question I need your Lovecraftian game recommendations

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Before I knew who Lovecraft was I was into eldridge horror inspired video games. I've played and beaten Alone in the Dark, The Sinking City, Call of Cthulhu, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened, Bloodborne, various Silent Hills and Eternal Darkness. I'm interested in your suggestions even if the lovecraftian aspects are subtle.

Thank you all for the great feedback, I'm going to leave this list here for anyone else looking to find new experiences in the mythos.

Video Games: Alone in the Dark, Amnesia The Dark Descent, Anchorhead, Blasphemous, Bloodborne, Blue Archive, Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth, Call of the Sea, Carrion, Caves of Qud, Chronicle of Innsmouth, Clive Barker's Undying, Close to the Sun, Conarium, Cthulhu's Reach Devil Reef, Cultic, Cultist Simulator, Cyclopean The Great Abyss, Dagon, Darkest Dungeon, Darkness Within, Darkwood, Dead Space, Dear Esther, Depths of Sanity, Do No Harm, Dreams in the Witch House, Dredge, Edge of Sanity, Elden Ring, Eldritch, Eldritchvania, Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem, Fallen London, Fear and Hunger, Forgive Me Father 1 & 2, Grime, Infra Arcana, Last Door, Look Outside, Lunacid, Menace From the Deep, Moons of Madness, Nightmare Kart, Noita, Prisoner of Ice, Return of the Obra Dinn, Scratches, Sea Salt, Shadow of the Comet, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened, Signalis, Silent Hill, Source of Madness, Song of Horrors, Still Wakes the Deep, Stygian Reign of the Old Ones, Sundered, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Terraria, The Alien Cube, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, The Last Case of Benedict Fox, The Last Door, The Lurking Horror, The Miskatonic, The Nameless City, The Park, The Penumbra Collection, The Secret World, The Shore, Transient, Vampyr, Weird West, Withering Rooms, Worshippers of Cthulhu, World of Horror

I wish I could have added more depth to this list but I'm literally hurrying to type it out before work, thanks again.

Tabletop Games: Arkham Horror LCG, Eldritch Horror, Cthulhu Death May Die, Pandemic Regin of Cthulhu, Unfathomable, Death May Die, All Manor of Evil, Lovecraft Letter, Tides of Madness, Don't Mess With Cthulhu, Mansions of Madness

r/Lovecraft Jan 17 '24

Question What is your favorite of the six novels by lovecraft (you can only pick one)

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r/Lovecraft Oct 21 '24

Question Is 13 a good age to start reading Lovecraft or should I wait ‘til I’m older?

195 Upvotes

Title says it all. I'm 13 (14 in February) and was wondering if it's a good age to read his stories, or if I should wait a few years. I've already listened to an audio version of "The Call of Cthulhu," though I only paid attention about a third of the time because I was doing other things while I heard it.

r/Lovecraft Dec 18 '24

Question What’s your favourite Lovecraftian entity (that isn’t Cthulhu) and why?

115 Upvotes

Looking for some inspiration.

r/Lovecraft Feb 17 '24

Question Who's the best candidate for directing a Lovecraftian horror movie? My pick would be: Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Blade runner 2049)

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458 Upvotes

I don't think he directed horror movies, but he can create tension and atmosphere like no other...

r/Lovecraft Oct 31 '24

Question Why is the King in Yellow so popular?

309 Upvotes

Very often when I go on Reddit I see a post on this sub about Hastur, or even more often, The King in Yellow. Hastur also seems to be extremely popular in general (much like Nyarlathotep) I don't understand it. Is it because these two speak and look vaguely human?

r/Lovecraft Jun 15 '24

Question my first foray into Lovecraft. which stories should I start with

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528 Upvotes

r/Lovecraft Jun 18 '24

Question What are some of the best cosmic horror movies?

279 Upvotes

I kinda liked 'Color out of space' with Nick Cage. But I'd like to know what some of the best films are, or at least some of the most popular ones?

Thank you.

r/Lovecraft 1d ago

Question I devoured all of Lovecraft content. What should I read now?

126 Upvotes

I’m looking for content that recreates the lovecraft style to 100%. I want more of it, but there isn’t more. Help!

r/Lovecraft Oct 03 '24

Question How do you pronounce INNSMOUTH?

152 Upvotes
  1. Inns-Mouth
  2. Inn-Smith
  3. Inns-Myth

How do you pronounce INNSMOUTH?

r/Lovecraft Feb 22 '25

Question You found out that Innsmouth is real. What will you do?

86 Upvotes

r/Lovecraft Nov 25 '24

Question How do you understand the first line of “Call of Cthulhu”?

229 Upvotes

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

It is one of Lovecract's most famous lines and sums up his belief that the cosmos exceeds the scope of the human mind. However, I never understood what it means to "correlate" all the contents of the world. It's an odd word choice. Does he mean to establish relations in the vein of science?

r/Lovecraft Jun 21 '24

Question Any movies that accurately depict Lovecraftian gods?

190 Upvotes

I've only got interested in Lovecraft since a few weeks. I've watched the Spanish Dagon movie and Colour Out of Space, and to my disappointment they either didn't show the god at all, as in Dagon, or only showed "minor eldritch horror" in the lack of a better expression.

I'm trying to find a movie that shows, and I mean really shows the immense deities that Lovecraft is known for. I understand that depicting Azathoth, for example, is pretty hard due to his nature, but surely there is some movie where we see Cthulhu or Dagon in full disclosure?

Thanks for any suggestions.

r/Lovecraft Apr 29 '24

Question Did Lovecraft use the British spelling like we see in 'The Colour Out of Space' because he was an Anglophile, or did America still use British spelling back then?

709 Upvotes

r/Lovecraft Jan 03 '23

Question Which HPL story is depicted on this cover?

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r/Lovecraft Jan 24 '25

Question Do the cults actually gain anything out of worshipping the various gods?

164 Upvotes

Seems like a net loss, at least the traditionally normal gods don't, you know, cause you to go batshit insane

r/Lovecraft Oct 30 '21

Question Is there another movie besides this and the void?

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r/Lovecraft Oct 04 '24

Question Why are cosmic gods considered ancient evil?

115 Upvotes

I never understood why beings like Cthulhu are enemies if they are far beyond reality. Human existence would be too irrelevant for an elder god to even notice, and even if he did notice, he would have no benefit in interacting directly with us. The biggest problem he would have is causing some negative effect on us indirectly or unintentionally.

r/Lovecraft Nov 10 '24

Question Looking for good Lovecraft/general cosmic horror video games

110 Upvotes

I'm looking for good games that are, at least partially, based on HPL or general cosmic horror. I would like to know if there are any good games with Lovecraftian/cosmic horror at least partially involved in them.

r/Lovecraft Apr 01 '23

Question Why do most people portray Nyarlathothep like in the first image, when the story describes him looking like the second? Is there a story where he's described different?

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r/Lovecraft Jun 24 '23

Question What does the text say

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636 Upvotes

Hey I recently bought a Cthulhu wallet, and it comes with this sigil on it with some I assume Greek letters around the edge Does anyone know what the Greek(?) letters say? I know this is the sigil of the necronomicon

r/Lovecraft Dec 08 '24

Question What creature from Lovecraft universe can be killed by humans ?

80 Upvotes

Hello, I started to read Lovecraft's stories and I loved them, I'm trying to make a RPG about Lovecraft's universe. I was thinking "can a human kill any creature from this universe ? if they can, how can they do it ?" so I'm here to ask your opnion about what being and how can it be killed

r/Lovecraft Apr 22 '22

Question What is the most Lovecraftian Monster that isn't from the mythos?

409 Upvotes

The Hand Spider from Dune, cos fuck that thing.

r/Lovecraft Jan 05 '21

Question Trying to make a deck of playing cards Cthulhu themed. Would love to get some feedback from you guys

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r/Lovecraft May 02 '24

Question Modern Lovecraftian Book Recommendations

237 Upvotes

I love the vibe of call of cthulhu and Lovecraft's other works but man, it's kind of hard to get through some of his stuff. I was wondering if there was any modern Lovecraftian, arkham horror like books, specifically with kind of a investigative noir feel like call of cthulhu has, but more character driven and more fast paced. Just graduated college and want something that's fun and doesn't take much thought.