Their aim is to confirm the findings of the team from Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, and to discover what technological advancements there might be in the ruins of the Elder Things’ city. His works – and those of his successors – are full of scientists, historians, or any kind of intellectual learning just a tiny piece of reality’s true nature and being shattered by the realization.Ĭonarium is about a team of these hubris-filled academics on an expedition to Antarctica. Lovecraft was an author committed to isolationism, and prized ignorance as the highest virtue – in his mind, the most horrifying thing imaginable was a true understanding of the nature of the universe. But, being videogame developers, more often than not those monsters are there to be shot, slashed, or blown up.Īs viscerally satisfying as it might be to blast Deep Ones apart with shotguns, that’s fundamentally not what the Cthulhu Mythos is about. Videogame developers, always on the lookout for compelling visuals, have cribbed from him with great frequency. Or, rather, inconceivable shapes and forms, since their abhorrent nature was kind of the whole point. Lovecraft has one of the most impressive bestiaries of any Fantasy or Horror author, creating an unholy host of monsters in every conceivable shape and form. To a certain audience, that should be all the review that Conarium requires. “ It’s a first-person Lovecraft game without any combat.” LOW The developers failing to flag something crucial, costing me an hour of backtracking.

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