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What are the best Lovecraftian games that are NOT directly inspired by his works?

Cultist Simulator for sure, the lovecraft inspiration is evident but its very much its own unique thing

>>713195913 (OP)
Dead Space

>>713195913 (OP)
Darkwood doesn't really have any direct references to Lovecraft, but it may have been inspired by him. It's cosmic horror anyway

>>713195913 (OP)
Cultist Sim, The Book of Hours, and Travelling at Night

>>713195913 (OP)
Dredge

>>713198463
It's shit
I don't know why people praise it so much, there's literally no mood to anything once you're out the starting area with the fish that pretends to be a boat

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>>713198161
I really wish Cultist Sim was a bit more flexible with its system, once you get into it you realize there's certain hoops you have to jump through just to have a decent chance of success so repeat playthroughs become repetitive slogs.
It's a shame because I really love the lore and presentation, but it's way more formulaic than initial impressions would have you believe.

>>713195913 (OP)
Sundered, though it does have 2 bosses that are lovecraft characters, and does referance characters in item descriptions and names, like atlach nacha for example

>>713198463
If you are implying it is not directly inspired by Lovecraft then you may be on some shit I need to try. Also the game is fucking boring.

>>713195913 (OP)
meme answer: Concord and games of the same caliber
non-meme answer: Subnautica

Lovecraft
>The void was so incomprehensibly terrifying that I dare not describe it as the revelation is already trying my sanity.
>Know dear reader that whatever your fate is, may it be better than mine.
>PS I might be part Welsh and only my cat Niggerman can save me from this horror

"Lovecraftian"
>DUDE
>TENTACLES
>LMAO

>>713195913 (OP)
Don't Starve has some loosely Lovecraftian stuff in it

Bloodborne

Does Eternal Darkness count?

>>713195913 (OP)
Amnesia

Amazed this one wasn't mentioned immediately

Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins

>>713200787
>part Welsh

>>713195913 (OP)
The Last Door. It has very blocky pixel art, but I think it works well for horror because the low-fi nature makes you use your imagination more to fill in the details.

>>713200787
>PS I might be part Welsh
No way to recover from this. Might as well end it

>>713195913 (OP)
RE5

>>713200787
>This shit is so scary
>What is it?
>I don't know
People love this shit.

>>713195913 (OP)
Higurashi When They Cry

>>713204119
Yes.

Secret World. Shame about Legends though, they should just turn it into a single player game with acutal ending instead and sell it as a remake or something.I'd be willing to pay again.

Explain what the fuck Lovecraftian means first

>>713206825
tentacles lol

>>713206825
>universe is fucking huge and we don't understand it at all
>there are being that are so beyond our understanding, that even trying to comunicate with them would drive us mad
>most of them don't even care about us, but their influence is so strong, they'll fuck us up just by getting near our reality
>some crazy fuckers want to summon them, worship them or in at least one case fuck them
>white rednecks from New England are the worst people in the world
I think that's the gist of it. Also Cthuluhu is an overrated bitch.

>>713206825
Cultists are trying to summon Satan from his nap today and if you stop them he'll just wake up tomorrow anyways

>>713207313
You can tell someone is a Lovecraftlet if they think Cthulhu was a god.
Nigga was only a priest.

>>713206825
Fear of the Unknown. The idea that your current reality is but a comfortable illusion that hides a secret world which operates on logic you don't understand.

>>713207313
>at least one case fuck them
They fuck monsters in both Dunwich Horror and Shadow Over INnnsmouth

>>713208765
Oh, and in The Horror at Red Hook too

>>713208765
Arthur Jermyn too.

Lord Dunsany was worshipped by Lovecraft and based his entire writing style and literary legacy on him. And yet everyone only remembers Lovecraft... for copying another man.

PATHETIC.

Lovecraft knew he was nothing but a fraud, as mentioned in his letters. His entire literary career is an ode to five or six stories written by LD.

>>713195913 (OP)
turok 2

>>713203242
OP said NOT directly inspired - the fuck else do you call the Occultist summoning tentacles & healing his mates with a blood ritual?
Amazing game tho

>>713209237
Every author is influenced by other authors before him, stop being a massive bitch.

Whose the king in yellow?

>>713209640
How the fuck can something not be directly inspired by something? Your shit's either inspired by someone's work or it isn't inspired by their work. It's that simple.

>>713209237
I am mana-yood-sushai and this is /THREAD

>>713195913 (OP)
>cosmic horrors beyond imagination
probably some tranny game

>>713209938
cope. not to the degree lovecraft copied dunsany. he even went to dunsany's lectures and was too frightened of him to even approach him.

>>713195913 (OP)
Amnesia, Penumbra, Scratches

>>713210080
Based Pegana enjoyer...

>>713195913 (OP)

Marrow

>>713207313
>white rednecks from New England are the worst people in the world
i already knew this before I ever read the books

>>713209941
Le'Garde

Eternal darkness

how do you even write lovecraftian? just dont tell the player jackshit or include some tentacles every now and then?

>>713210206
Bros, Lovecraft is literally me fr fr

>>713195913 (OP)
The story never leans into it but the Combine get pretty close to lovecraft stuff if you think about the scale of the hivemind.

>>713209958
Yeah, I don't understand what the fuck OP wants

>>713213384
He wants games made before he started writing to make sure they weren't inspired by him. Does tic-tac-toe count OP? Cops and robbers?

>>713195913 (OP)
Real life.

>>713195913 (OP)
If it's Lovecraftian it's inspired by his works. His name's Lovecraft. The subgenre is called Lovecraftian. It's right there in the fucking name you dim witted dick deposit.

>>713206825
Fear of anything new and not traditionalist through the eyes of a literal schizophrenic.
He's literally just modern day lizard men conspiracies.
>Guys what if air conditioning is actually a ploy by (((Them))) to preserve their life and stop them from rotting from the inside out
>What if I'm actually one of (((Them))) but don't know because my bloodline is not pure?????

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>>713173162 (OP)
I know it's a random EXE file on the internet, but the creator of Fictional Games made the ultimate HP Lovecraft game in highschool. It actually captures Lovecraft amazingly. Its called Fiend. It's talked about on the frictional Games website. Cheap 2d game from the creator of Soma when he was 17ish.

https://github.com/arvidfm/fiend

>t. Read every story, 3 times.

>>713195913 (OP)
Katamari Damacy

>>713206825
Basically shit that focuses on beings and shit from the cosmos or even beyond our reality so utterly alien that simply laying eyes on them or even comprehend them will drive someone mad. For most shit inspired by his works, there's an emphasis on the sheer insignificance of mankind in the face of such beings. A good example would be the John Dies at the End series with shit like the walking shadows, creatures that can fuck with time as they please and would completely rewrite your entire life so you are now a cross dressing gay hooker obsessed with injecting heroin directly into your dick hole and as fast as you and the entire world is concerned, you've always been that way just because they had a passing urge to do so.

>>713195913 (OP)
Half-Life

>>713195913 (OP)
I liked Control, its ripping off SCP more than Lovecraft, but it has some fun cosmic horror elements

>>713209237
Did Lord Dunsany have a cat, if he did what was its name?

>>713195913 (OP)
Eternal Darkness depending on what exactly you mean by directly

Its not exactly Cthulhu Mythos but its basically trying to be just made by Silicon Knights

also

Silent Hill

>>713217343
Control had potential but it really didn't do much with the premise. I expected to bee fighting really weird SCP type shit for the most part but instead you're mostly just fighting dudes with guns.

>>713214352
God, I love Dream Cycle so fucking much.

>>713206825
Tryhard hipster nonsense.

>>713203504
this
wario is the peak of cosmic horror
who is he? where did he come from? is he even human?