Has any game since captured lovecraftian environments and creatures

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>>3803534
There are fucktons of games inspired by lovecraftian horror and the mythos. It depends largely on what you consider lovecraftian in the first place. Personally I consider it to be contemporary horror fantasy with emphasis on fragility and paranoia.

>>3803543
Should have spoilered that for not retro but I agree it does a good job of being lovecraftian. OP set a pretty narrow window with "since 1996" though. Eternal Darkness is another that would probably fit the bill but is from '02. Shadow Of The Comet is pretty intensely Lovecraftian then gets further away from it in Prisoner of Ice. Alone in the Dark games have definite influences. Nocturne nails the setting but is one of those games that makes you feel like it's going to "go there" with Lovecraft stuff but doesn't. So much of Steven King's stuff also leaves me disappointed that way but if we're talking video games, his themes don't really start making their way into gaming until way past the retro period.

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>>3803543
Well obviously I'm not counting actual lovecraft based games, I should have said lovecraft inspired

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>>3803558
>triggers
lol how ironic. I just don't want to see the thread get pruned since I really like this topic. I even agreed with you about Dark Corners.

The path of public interest in Lovecraft is very interesting. By design (open sourcing/public domaining), I think he hoped that his visions would resonate through future sci-fi/fantasy literature and it did but then he got TOO popular and was dissected to death by SJWs so yeah we can just spiral this thread STRAIGHT into the trash if you want.

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So shall we talk about Eternal Darkness then? Or maybe even Dark Shadows of the Earth?

Somebody might be able to convince me to go back to Dank Shadows I lost my motivation on the boat. I thought it would be a relief to FINALLY get a gun but it really wasn't. Everything just got shittier.

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>>3803534
>>3803543
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>>3803534
Ironically, Quake's introduction of "true" 3D environments subverted its antecesors' potential for portraying the eerie dimensional qualities of environments tied to Lovecraft's Mythos

>>3804330
I hated doom back then too

>>3803534
Terraria