Call of Cthulhu

But Why ThoNikko Soto

70/10

Even with its flaws, I really enjoyed playing Call of Cthulhu. What it lacked in graphics and mechanics was made up with the overall story.

Press StartJames Berich

7/10

Call of Cthulhu is one of the better games based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and despite its visual shortcomings does a great job at commanding your attention from start to finish. It’s not for everyone, however, and the emphasis on exploration and trial-and-error stealth mechanics is bound to turn some people off. Putting this aside, Call of Cthulhu feels like a triumph for many reasons – it’s well paced, its story is intriguing and the uneasiness of it’s chilling conclusion will stay with you long after you’ve turned it off.

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

7/10

So, Call of Cthulhu on Switch is still a good game but with a number of caveats not found in other versions. It’s hard to recommend picking it up on Switch if you have a another console or a decent PC sitting around, unless you really want to play it in handheld mode. But tiny text may put a downer on that for you. If all you have is a Switch though, you’ll certainly get lots of enjoyment out of everything Call of Cthulhu offers. An adventure game with plenty of investigations to be done, only troublesome stealth sections sour the gameplay the little. Otherwise it’s a gripping journey.

Impulse GamerBlake Supple

Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu is in no way perfect, but is a truly mesmerizing adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror tales and it does incredibly well to

Game InformerAndrew Reiner

6.75/10

Within just minutes of starting Call of Cthulhu, a grim picture is painted for both protagonist Edward Pierce and the player controlling him. For Pierce, that picture consists of tentacled demons, distortions in reality, and voices swimming through his dreams. For the player, the horror takes the form of gameplay – all of it basking in an ugly haze, as none of the ideas appear to be fully realized. From the realization that most of your choices don’t matter to stealth sequences that are downright infuriating, Call of Cthulhu can be maddening to the bone.

GamingBoltRavi Sinha

6/10

Unlike a nightmarish fever dream, Call of Cthulhu is a pretty straightforward experience. It falters in places without really getting going in others but does an average job incorporating investigative gameplay with Cthulhu lore.

PC GamerSamuel Horti

59/100

The surreal horror spectacles don't make up for dull detective work.

Nintendo LifeSayem Ahmed

5/10

Call of Cthulhu manages to deliver a game that’s ripe with atmosphere but is built upon tried-and-true tropes of the genre that never really manage to evolve beyond the scope of what’s already been seen and heard before. Paired with some technical hiccups, we can say that Call of Cthulhu is only really for truly dedicated fans of Lovecraft; everyone else is advised to look elsewhere for their entertainment.

TheSixthAxisSteve C

5/10

Call of Cthulhu is not a particularly good game. It looks and feels dated, contains some frustratingly realised mechanics and has possibly the worst gun combat I’ve ever experienced (luckily this is only a short section). What it does do well, however, is capture the feel of a Lovecraft story. Fans of the mythos, or the tabletop RPG this game is loosely based on, will find much about the atmosphere and setting to enjoy, and the narrative builds to a climax that is more effective than many of the original stories. You do have to be prepared to get through a lot of mediocrity to get to this and ...

GameTyrant Devon Norris

0/10

Our review for the Nintendo Switch port of Call of Cthulhu .

The EscapistSamantha Nelson

Unscored

There’s a portion of The Sinking City where Reed must don an old timey diving suit to follow in the footsteps of an ill-fated deep sea expedition. While walking across the ocean floor I witnessed a massive cephalopod drifting by. Reed’s declining sanity bar let me know that it was hurting him to look at the creature, but it was too beautiful to look away. I had the same response in general to playing The Sinking City. There’s so much wonderful potential in this game that its flaws are all the more maddening. I wished that it had followed Call of Cthulhu in abandoning combat altogether and just...

MonsterVineSpencer Legacy

The other area in which Call of Cthulhu does struggle is its visuals, which are best described as inconsistent. While the supernatural creatures and eerie surroundings look fantastic, the human models run the gamut from creepy to laughably stone-faced. Some big moments in the story are dampened by the goofy blank faces that NPCs would make, which were made sillier by the game’s surreal artstyle.