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H. P. Lovecraft's influence in video games both philosophically (narrative, plot, dialogue, lore et cetera and how it reflects the values and principles of Cosmicism or "Yog-Sothothery" or not) and aesthetically (environment, design of characters, tentacles et cetera). It's probably going to...

What does Adolf Hitler have to do with anything? Wait. Nyarlathotep is Hitler? Japan, what the hell were you thinking...

Thanks to everyone for helping me find video games with Lovecraftian influences. I apologise for the slow reply, but this website simply hasn't been online for the past few hours. I'll check out each and every one of your suggestions. In the meantime, if anyone else would have any further ideas...

Thanks! I'll check it out. Also, screw video games! I should totally write my thesis paper about Lovecraft's influence in the hentai genre.

Is it me or is Trilby's Notes just really similar to Marble Hornets?

Some of these creatures from Metro 2033 have a The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath vibe going in the spirit of gugs and all the fantastical creatures and whatnot. However, despite being amorphous in nature, it's a bit too similar to the Master in the original Fallout video game.

The power of Lovecraft's writing lies in suggestion and the imagination of the reader rather than specific statements (see my TL;DR post about Amnesia: The Dark Descent). It might also be possible that scientific research back then regarding the origin of our species and its evolution in the...

Playing Eversion right now. I'm both grateful for this opportunity to be provided with such ample amounts of inspiration for my thesis paper as horrified at the manner in which this is completely ruining me as a human being. I love it.

Thank you for this awesome list of video games. Also, the same thing applies to you, too. If you might need some advice or want to talk about Lovecraft in general you can always ask. I'd be more than happy to help.

Also, did you see that thing that came out of Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus? They really pulled out the gelatinous, tentacled mass resembling the inky-black void of space with that thing. Then again, H. R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist artist who is also responsible for the character design of the...

And don't forget that the possible creators of the Xenomorphs, the Space Jockeys, have been established as our creators, too, in Prometheus. Apart from being a complete rehash of the novella At the Mountains of Madness, it also shares the idea that we are, as you said, not the creation of an...

Fun fact: I actually intended to write about Lovecraft as an author whose works exhibited traits best described as some kind of an intermediary stage in the progression from modernism to postmodernism. He was neither completely modernist nor postmodernist, but he could be interpreted as the...

Maybe I was writing too much so people don't read some of the things I write: I'm sorry if this is the case. Also, that game breaking bug known as the "blue lights" bug is awful. I got so far in the game and nothing happened. One of the few situations in which you actually hope to be...

I'll be sure to give you a digital copy once I'm done, then. In fact, everyone who's helped me here will receive a PDF file (how fancy). It's going to be an academic paper, so it might be somewhat dry for some people's tastes. Hopefully, I won't disappoint. Then again, your feedback and help...

It seems I am utterly incapable of saying anything barely related to Lovecraft without resorting to TL;DR walls of texts. Also, I love that video clip. It's like a paranoid member of the GOP read Lovecraft's works and tried to advocate abstinence among teenagers by equating pre-marital sex...