Call of Cthulhu

[Fortune]

Did they steal your game or did you steal theirs? Clearly someone stole something. And, I'm not talking about Lovecraftian lore. These games, which came out within two weeks of one another, might as well be the same thing just with different budgets.

[theruler]

Links?

[Fortune]

Links to what? Just play each of them. They feel like clones.

[theruler]

The links to the games you're talking about.
Accusations must be precise.

[monsterfurby]

Which one? There are dozens of CoC games out there.

[Fortune]

Sorry, this one.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/399810/Call_of_Cthulhu/

[Vali Riversong]

do you genuinely think *either* game was made within two weeks?

[theruler]

Exactly.
Lucas Pope started his public Dev log in may 2014.
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0

And Cyanide (according to wikipedia) in Jan 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(video_game)

We have only the Pope's interesting devlog to read and came up with an idea, but the fact is the premises of the question are wrong and far from legit. It's like asking who copied the way of cooking eggs, or pour water.

[mb3]

I've played Call of Cthulhu, its nothing like Obra Dinn. What-chu talkin about Willis?

[Kreddi]

Y-You honestly think that those two games are a like?

[SomeKindaBliss]

This poster is either a) a troll. b) doesn't understand classic influences. c) blind as they are clearly so so different or d) stupid if he thinks games can be 'stolen' that quickly. e) using this as a roundabout way to promote a product of a friend.

I'm betting e.

[Stringbender]

Originally posted by mb3:

I've played Call of Cthulhu, its nothing like Obra Dinn. What-chu talkin about Willis?

I Have to agree totally!! ...'cause there's a Kraken that attacks the ship? ...(by the way, this didn't happen in Cthulhu) and, aside from the ride to the port, Cthulhu takes place totally on land whilst the action in Obra Dinn is on board a ship. I cannot describe any similarities between the two. So far as Lovecraft goes, the Kraken was not his idea. The giant squid was spotted from time to time by whalers because certain whales were enemies of this creature and it became a sea monster legend along with a few others.
The Return of the Obra Dinn and Call of Cthulhu couldn't be more different from a writing standpoint. I'm being very kind to "X-Ray" because I'm giving the benefit of the Doubt with regards to Classic Lit.

[Facemelter]

I've got both. Nothing like each other.

[Hogarth]

Bro saw a squid and immediately thought they copied 💀💀💀

[AeroEngine]

♥♥♥♥-stirrer stirring ♥♥♥♥.

[Papai46]

This game has more Voyage of The Demeter chapter from Dracula inspirations than Call of Cthulhu.