Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror games?

[Chaosolous]

Don’t necessarily have to be a horror game, just the setting or theme. Surreal unease is the vibe I’m looking for.

Any recommendations?

[causality]

Bloodborne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw2ZgfNEeI

[NW/RL]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/913740/WORLD_OF_HORROR/

[DoomsDay]

I have been thinking about just how easily betrayed these people are, on short notice they are to decide fate for themselves and others,with words that not reliable to them.
am I trying to accuse human language as something of a gamble game? the honest truth is, one is guaranteed a child by writing or speaking human language at anywhere during this age.
I am only oversharing my side story of me running into this chat board, the words are not kindly, no one knows how it become like this.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Imo:

Call of Cthulhu.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.

Edit to add: Not out yet and may not be your thing, and it's more a Silent-Hill-like than Lovecraftian per se, but Sorry We're Closed's demo definitely gave me a creeping sense of unease fwiw.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Don’t necessarily have to be a horror game, just the setting or theme. Surreal unease is the vibe I’m looking for.

Any recommendations?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035120/Lust_from_Beyond/

[gugnihr]

Eternal Darkness for the GameCube

The original Alone in the dark game for MS DOS (Eternal Darkness is basically a bigger and better spiritual successor of this game)

"Surreal unease"
I strongly recommend you NaissanceE
https://store.steampowered.com/app/265690/NaissanceE/
as you can see it is even free.
It is a wonderful game that can make you feel many absolutely wonderful things, including (but not only) that.
It's not a horror.

In the TES games there are several references to Lovecraft and his style, but not everywhere, those games are all about variety so you have to search for this kind of content.
The side quest "A shadow over Hackdirt" in Oblivion is probably the Lovecraft reference that I enjoyed the most in those games.
They are not horror games, they can have horror elements here and there but as I said they are very varied and so those games too can make you feel many different wonderful things, including that sometimes.

I almost forgot, Doom 64
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148590/DOOM_64/
buy it, do not just use mods for normal Doom games because you need the specific assets of this game to really get what you are looking for, and most mods I have seen just use normal Doom assets instead which just suck compared to the real Doom 64 experience.
It is absolutely wonderful and very atmospheric, expecially after the first ten stages.

And Quake 1 too. If you are VERY good at this game I strongfly recommend you to play the Arcane dimensions mod, which is absolutely incredible but also very difficult and annoying (I am not skilled enough to really enjoy it :( but if you are I'm sure you will have a fantastic experience)

[vkobe]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/288160/The_Room/

[Plaid]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2272250/Forgive_Me_Father_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1590910/Forgive_Me_Father/

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by causality:

Bloodborne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw2ZgfNEeI

Man, I wish that was on PC.

[☢Dreadstriker☢]

Originally posted by causality:

Bloodborne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw2ZgfNEeI

It is not horror game so stop mentioning it

[Dracoco OwO]

Originally posted by ☢Dreadstriker☢:

Originally posted by causality:

Bloodborne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntw2ZgfNEeI

It is not horror game so stop mentioning it

It has light horror themes, but usually you don't beat to the pulp said horror, i'd argue it's still an horror game though, i can't tell i never actually been "horrified" or something by any game.

[MinionJoe]

Been meaning to play this one, but it's been buried in my backlog.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/252630/Eldritch/

[salamander]

the fact that nobody has posted such a classic lovecraftian survival horror game is wild!:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/22340/Call_of_Cthulhu_Dark_Corners_of_the_Earth/

[Chaosolous]

The only eldritch horror here is the damn necromancer who resurrected my thread.

In Morrowind necromancy is punishable by death. Shame Valve is based out of Washington State and not Vvardenfell.

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

The only eldritch horror here is the damn necromancer who resurrected my thread.

In Morrowind necromancy is punishable by death. Shame Valve is based out of Washington State and not Vvardenfell.

Damn, I didn't even notice.

Does that mean I'm life-blind?

Does that make me necrophobic?

I don't know the rules anymore.