I am a fan of both Howard Phillips Lovecraft's fantastic literary body having read most of his work and also the Role playing game the Call of Cthulhu (the table top one not the new one). I very much enjoyed this game despite the glitches (should you wish to play without the glitches I would suggest that you either buy this game on good old games or install the patch that can be found online, and turn down the resolution for the very last bit of the game to the lowest setting).

I have to say that don't go into this game expecting something akin to one of Lovecraft's stories word for word, while it deals with the same themes and even one of the same characters this game is a bit of Lovecraft salad. You get bits from The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow out of time, Dagon, At the Mountains of Madness and even some references to The
Whisperer in darkness. In execution the game is much closer to something like Call of Cthulhu or pulp Cthulhu on table top. I would call the game lite cosmic horror and not true lovecraftian horror.

When it comes to the actual game I will start with the negatives. The shooting is mediocre at best but is tolerable due to the excessive number of weapon variations, it can get tense however when ammo starts to run out. The AI is not that great and ruins stealth opportunity and makes the game easier then it should be. The graphics are serviceable most of the time but if you are playing on high brightness (don't do that) it wont look that great. Now onto the positives. Greg Chandler does a fantastic job with the soundtrack of the game making a unique and creepy soundtrack that adds to each moment and really emphasises the horror or the tension. Nearly every environment in this game is fantastic and where the graphics might fail the atmosphere and tone really make up for it and go beyond, So many of the locations and environments really make you feel like you are in the dark corners that Lovecraft wrote about and the developers did a great job with them. Those very environments compliments the Adventure/investigation gameplay which has you explore these environments for clues or to escape the claws of the shadowy cults and alien beings.

If you want to enjoy Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth go into it not necessarily as a horror stealth game but as an Adventure game with a side of horror and you will enjoy it much more.
I give it a 7/10 for its fantastic world, soundtrack, decent graphics and adventure gameplay and being mostly faithful to HPL's works.
PS. if you get the steam one only play on windows 7 or lower, and that is pushing it.

I am a fan of both Howard Phillips Lovecraft's fantastic literary body having read most of his work and also the Role playing game the Call of Cthulhu (the table top one not the new one). I very much enjoyed this game despite the glitches (should you wish to play without the glitches I would suggest that you either buy this game on good old games or install the patch that can be found online, and turn down the resolution for the very last bit of the game to the lowest setting). I have to say that don't go into this game expecting something akin to one of Lovecraft's stories word for word, while it deals with the same themes and even one of the same characters this game is a bit of Lovecraft salad. You get bits from The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow out of time, Dagon, At the Mountains of Madness and even some references to The Whisperer in darkness. In execution the game is much closer to something like Call of Cthulhu or pulp Cthulhu on table top. I would call the game lite cosmic horror and not true lovecraftian horror. When it comes to the actual game I will start with the negatives. The shooting is mediocre at best but is tolerable due to the excessive number of weapon variations, it can get tense however when ammo starts to run out. The AI is not that great and ruins stealth opportunity and makes the game easier then it should be. The graphics are serviceable most of the time but if you are playing on high brightness (don't do that) it wont look that great. Now onto the positives. Greg Chandler does a fantastic job with the soundtrack of the game making a unique and creepy soundtrack that adds to each moment and really emphasises the horror or the tension. Nearly every environment in this game is fantastic and where the graphics might fail the atmosphere and tone really make up for it and go beyond, So many of the locations and environments really make you feel like you are in the dark corners that Lovecraft wrote about and the developers did a great job with them. Those very environments compliments the Adventure/investigation gameplay which has you explore these environments for clues or to escape the claws of the shadowy cults and alien beings. If you want to enjoy Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth go into it not necessarily as a horror stealth game but as an Adventure game with a side of horror and you will enjoy it much more. I give it a 7/10 for its fantastic world, soundtrack, decent graphics and adventure gameplay and being mostly faithful to HPL's works. PS. if you get the steam one only play on windows 7 or lower, and that is pushing it.