Such a weird little game. I'm not sure who thought steampunk American literary heroes vs literal lovecraftian monsters was a good idea, but it kind of worked. Its hard to figure out who the target audience was and the markets didn't help. What percentage of people who play video games even know Randolph Carter is Lovecraft's alter ego he wrote into a few of his short stories? The gameplay was pretty solid. Standard XCOM fair, but you line up weak point shots instead of rolling the dice, which heavily favors aggressive play. The game did a good job constantly introducing new characters and maps, but ran out of enemies to pull from halfway through the game and started to throw multiple previously plot-important bosses at you all at once. The soundtrack, however, was fantastic. While the enemy music could unfortunately stumble into dubstep, the player phase music was a glorious combination of metal and strings , somehow giving songs that were both fully metal and 18th century america. Despite my enjoyment, it doesn't get my recommendation as there's simply better games you could play instead. Its not like this will ever get a sequel with how poorly it performed anyway.....

Reviewed on Apr 26, 2022


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