#lovecraftian horror game

[witchmarsh]

We are always saying that.

🧙 Wishlist on Steam now 🧙

[mindminetv]

New Lovecraftian Co-op Horror Survival Game - Eresys! w/ DJevocation Join DJevocation & me as we land on an island drenched in dark occultism and the influence of the Old Ones! Will we stop chaos & madness from breaking through this reality or welcome it?

[anim-ttrpgs]

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy by A.N.I.M.

Allow us to introduce ourselves, we are The Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery, or “A.N.I.M.”, a very small TTRPG studio based out of the southern U.S. but ultimately made up of people from many different walks of life.

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, our debut TTRPG, is a neo-noir investigation-focused RPG with (as you can probably guess from the title) a supernatural twist, that is currently in production after an extremely successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.

How far would you go to learn the truth?

Play amateur detectives caught up in things they barely understand, and explore how the lives of your characters unravel as they push themselves to dig deeper into the unknown!

Eureka innovates on and revolutionizes investigative gameplay, TTRPG combat, and what it means to play as a monster as a character in a TTRPG, filling several voids we have noticed in the TTRPG space. Eureka supports investigation to a degree never before seen, ensuring that searching for clues is a granular and player-driven process, but also ensuring that the whole story doesn’t grind to a halt after one single failed investigation check.

Character-driven gameplay!

Stats and abilities are based on who your character is as a person. Freeform character creation allows you to build a totally unique little guy, and have a totally unique gameplay experience with him! This is supported by the backbone of the Composure mechanic. Stress, fear, fatigue, and hunger will wear your investigators down as they trudge deeper into the unknown. Food, sleep, and connections with their fellow investigators are the only way to keep them going!

Secrets inside and out! 

Any investigator could be a monster, helping their friends while trying not to reveal their true natures. The party will learn to trust and rely on each other, or explode into a tangled net of drama!

Though most PCs will be mundane humans—or perhaps because most PCs will be mundane humans—Eureka also supports playing monstrous PCs, such as a vampire, in a way never seen before. This isn’t just a watered-down stat bonus, it’s like playing an almost entirely different game, with all the monster’s strengths and weaknesses to account for while solving the mystery, plus the added incentive to keep it a secret from the other PCs as well as their players.

(You can also play as something like The Thing from John Carpenter's The Thing!)

If you like or are interested in Call of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, Dresden Files, X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Apocalypse Keys, World of Darkness, or Gumshoe, you’ll probably find something in Eureka to really enjoy.

Intense, tactical combat! 

Hits are devastating, and misses are unpredictable–firing a gun will always change the situation somehow, for better or for worse!

Now in Technicolor!

Evocative artwork from talented femme-fatales @chaospyromancy and @qsycomplainsalot and the mysterious @theblackwarden paint a gorgeously-realized portrait of a world with shadows lurking in every corner.

Elegantly designed and thoroughly playtested, Eureka represents the culmination of three years of near-daily work from our team, as well as a lot of our own money. If you’re just now reading this and learning about Eureka for the first time, you missed the crowdfunding window unfortunately, but you can still check out the public beta on itch.io to learn more about what Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy actually is, as that is where we have all the fancy art assets, the animated trailer, links to video reviews by podcasts and youtubers, etc.!

You can also follow updates on our Kickstarter page where we post regular updates on the status of our progress finishing the game and getting it ready for final release.

Beta Copies through the Patreon

If you want more, you can download regularly updated playable beta versions of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy earlier, plus extra content such as adventure modules by subscribing to our Patreon at the $5 tier or higher. Subscribing to our patreon also grants you access to our patreon discord server where you can talk to us directly and offer valuable feedback on our progress and projects.

The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club

If you would like to meet the A.N.I.M. team and even have a chance to play Eureka with us, you can join the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club discord server. It’s also just a great place to talk and discuss TTRPGs, so there is no schedule obligation, but the main purpose of it is to nominate, vote on, then read, discuss, and play different indie TTRPGs. We put playgroups together based on scheduling compatibility, so it’s all extremely flexible. This is a free discord server, separate from our patreon exclusive one. https://discord.gg/7jdP8FBPes

Other Stuff

We also have a ko-fi and merchandise if you just wanna give us more money for any reason.

We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

[akabaka-dev]

Double art reveal day? Yeaaaah double art reveal day ✨️

Aka has been COOKIN' this week 👀

Hh'eily, the Color out of Space 🌈

[willknightauthor]

I don't know what this aesthetic is, I've been calling it "grim-sparkle" or "wonderdark," but you know it when you see it. It's that combination of magical and gritty, beautiful and grotesque, hope and dread. The dark fairy tale vibe transcending fantasy.

Fucking love that shit.

[rabidhiss]

Just wanted to share some of this incredible occult folk/horror artwork from Darkwood. I get Wicker Man (1973) movie vibes from these images. If you’re a gamer, I highly recommend this little indie title. It’s by no means an easy game, but the ambiance and mood along with Lovecraftian dread really place this game on an entirely different level.

[highrook]

Highrook Beta Test is Nigh

So this post is going to be less of a meandering design blog and more of a call to arms! (Don't worry, rambling muses will return soon)

We are about to run a small beta test of The Horror At Highrook (our clockwork occult mystery game) kicking off early next month (probably next week in fact!).

If you are interested in taking part, check out the link & form below. The beta is an extended version of the demo, featuring 3 chapters, more mechanics and more story developments. You also get to see why Lady Sophia Ackeron (featured above) is quite so grumpy..

[peterkothe]

INKtober 2024-Spider🕷️

“The Byrgenwerth spider hides all manner of rituals, and keeps our lost master from us.” -Note found in the study of the Odeon Chapel.

Rom, the Vacuuous Spider, one of the toughest and most surreal bosses in all of Bloodborne and Master Willem, founder of the Byrgenwerth College, sits its captive in his mansion by the lake. Once defeated, the moon looms even larger, and your perception of the world of Bloodborne changes…

[yousadclownofaman]

Cult of The Grub Devotee, for The Endless Dungeon.

Devotees undergo metamorphosis after sustained consumption of consecrated Ochre Frass from the Cult’s nursery troughs. Flensing Daggers drain the blood & open deep wounds for grubs to bury themselves in, which defenders of the Cult will toss at attackers liberally. A Ring of Gnawing, crafted from brass by lower ranking members in the throes of illumination, may be given to true Zealots. These allow their wearers to gain the ability to eat through & gain slim-but-sufficient sustenance from unprocessed inorganic materials like wood, stone and earth as well as rotten organic matter.

[fog-world]

[johnny-neurontin]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Signalis is some of the most breathtakingly beautiful sci-fi/cosmic horror that I've ever experienced. I'm revisiting the game and just like whenever I've played it before, I'm rendered speechless at the inventiveness and creativity in telling this tragic love story that transcends time, space, and the physical form. If you haven't played Signalis, I couldn't recommend it more strongly. It's one of my all time favorite games and possibly my favorite sci-fi story I've experienced. Play it with a loved one, read the in game notes and story elements, really get stuck in and you will be rewarded with unimpeachable evidence that video games can very much be art. /rant

First poster by Ray-Ana on DeviantArt

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/ray-ana/art/Signalis-Poster-941068347

[man-o-lore]

I've been playing World of Horror a lot lately

[devileaterjaek]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (GCN) Join our community on //Discord//

[anim-ttrpgs]

(Exerpt from the Introduction to Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy)

[akabaka-dev]

Hi! Hope I'm not bothering you and I adore Sucker For Love but I have a few questions if that's okay.

Will we see Rhok'zan's other family?

I think it was mentioned that Rhokzan has over a thousand children, but are Estir and Ineta her only grandchildren?

Will anymore gods be inspired by Lovecraft?

Is there any male or gender neutral presenting gods or is all the Eldritch god panthion made up of ladies? (Not complaining just genuinely curious.)

Sorry if there's so many. I genuinely love the games so much! Thank you for taking time out to read this!

Yes, no (not the only grandkids in HP lovecraft lore // still making decisions for SFL universe), yes, and yes!

The family tree from Lovecraftian mythos is... complex. So this is the family tree Aka had been using for the established characters in the SFL mythos. Characters like Hh'eily (color out of space) and Muu are eldritch but not gods

As for other gods and goddesses, lovecraftian lore has 40...? 50? other gods in the pantheon, any of which are fair game >.>

I'd love to see yall's ideas for gods and goddesses if y'all have some :) like for fun

it's one of the really cool things about the lovecraftian mythos-- H. P. Lovecraft wrote prolificly for the genre. But the mythos has been expanded and developed beyond HP Lovecraft's concepts (and ideals). Over the years, so many creative, wonderful authors and artists have added their voices to such a fascinating genre of horror. I think it's nice that anyone can add their voice too :)

[manonamora-if]

The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt is back!

What to expect with this update:

Play a game of chess with Edward and recount your (mis-)adventure in the last chapter (and... maybe more?).

Encounter something strange...

Do some more investigating, which might bring more questions than answers.

Prepare to visit the depths of the manor?

PLAY CHAPTER 4 NOW !

Full Devlog - Game Intro Post - Review on IFDB - Rate on itch

[New]

Added Chapter 4 (about 12k-ish new total words)

Added a map of Chapter 3's maze in game

Created 2 more levels for the maze to take into account the availability of the map

[Fix]

fixed some formatting issue with the links (the numbering appears again when the setting is toggled)

fixed the formatting of some multi-option pages

fixed a few bugs where the wrong variation was shown (codex and minor sentence addition)

corrected a few grammar issues

updated the code of the Save settings (should not change anything for the player)