Which lovecraftian story is this game inspried from?

[P0MK0NTHA1]

I want to read up on specific lovecraftian story that inspire this game thanks

[Verienkeli]

There's inspiration in this from both The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Call of Cthulhu, but neither is especially close.

[RedNoodlePanda]

Cthylla. See my post about it in the discussions here! ^^;

[bsg_joel]

None of us have ever read any Lovecraft, so actually, it's not directly inspired by any of them! There is, of course, coincidental crossover with the mythos.

[󠀡󠀡]

引用自 bsg_joel：

None of us have ever read any Lovecraft, so actually, it's not directly inspired by any of them! There is, of course, coincidental crossover with the mythos.

That's funny considering the Lovecraftian themes. I guess it's so much part of the popular culture that one does not need to read the original material.

[Bjørn]

引用自 quaixor：

引用自 bsg_joel：

None of us have ever read any Lovecraft, so actually, it's not directly inspired by any of them! There is, of course, coincidental crossover with the mythos.

That's funny considering the Lovecraftian themes. I guess it's so much part of the popular culture that one does not need to read the original material.

It's interesting

I've never read any of him either, and not too familiar with the lore and such.

After I read the message from the dev (I gave a treasure award lol), I checked the store page for the game, and there is no mention of Lovecraft anywhere in the description, only in the tags, which are entered by the Steam users (and not by developers).

People have just assumed it was based upon it thanks to the similarities with other media based on it, I guess.

[Teratus]

Tbh I think a lot of people are very familiar with Lovecraftian themes without ever having any hands on reading of the material, simply through pop culture exposure.

We all know who/what Cthulhu is.. at least to the point we can recognise it, regardless of whether we've actually read anything about it.
Much like people who've never seen a Godzilla movie can still recognise a picture of it.

[Depaskala]

The fun thing is that stuff that are "directly inspired" by Lovecraft generally only recycle some visual aspects (oooh look the cthulhus want to stomp the world) or basic aspect (oooh the old god looks so funny I get all nutty), while Dredge actually captures its sense of mystery, gloom and poetry. The abstract anxiety that may come from the sea, the depths, the fog and the unseen.

What I'm saying is that it feels infinitely more lovecraftian than direct inspirations that just turn these writings into magical shooty action monster adventures with sanity meters.