Or a Jaws game about serenely researching shark ecosystems. It’s like if someone made a Batman game that was primarily about constructing the most devastating firearms to kill criminals. And I appreciate that this will not be the last game on the list with this issue.īut nevertheless, Death May Die misses the point so badly that I find it hard to focus on anything else.
And you can certainly argue against treating the source material with any kind of sanctity-especially with someone like Lovecraft whose work is filled with racist and sexist issues. Now, adaptations of all kinds take lots of artistic liberties, and I find it annoying to dismiss them purely for this reason-even while I’m doing it. The protagonists of Lovecraft’s stories never fight these beings-that’s not an option. Central to these stories is the concept that old ones like Cthulhu are A) timeless and immortal, B) beyond human reckoning, and C) potentially apocalyptic should they come out of dormancy.
Even if we only focus on Lovecraft stories that include big monsters/Elder Gods (which eliminates at least half of his work), the plot of Death May Die is still about as noncanonical as you can achieve while still claiming to be inspired by the author. In a forum post on BGG, Has anyone in the gaming industry ever actually read Lovecraft?: Bjorn Fink, the original poster, writes, “I always imagine the sad face when someone who played Arkham Horror or any other Cthulhu Themed game actually reads Lovecraft…no Shotguns, no Tommyguns, no Heroes waving guns around, almost no direct monster attacks…well not even that many Monsters at all.”Īnd this is the key point. I first heard Cthulhu: Death May Die (2019) described as a game where “players team up to find Cthulhu and shoot him in the face.” This is such a spectacular misrepresentation of the Old Ones mythos that it gives me a headache. Classes: Episodic cooperation, Kickstarter, Miniatures.87 titles with >100 ratings 8/10 and higher 1. Expansions to titles already on the list are not, unless they play standalone. 6 games were produced, in my opinion, to justify a pun in the name that the designer came up with first: Cards of Cthulhu, Necronomicards, Hastur La Vista Baby!, Necronomonopoly, A’Writhe, and the Necroboomicon expansion for Two Rooms and a Boom.Įditor’s Note: The number of ratings listed will quickly become out of date, but ratings seem relatively stable after 100-1,000 ratings.īase games and expansions to non-Lovecraft-themed games are eligible for this list.He was a nazi-sympathisizing asshole, so this is fine. Lovecraft’s Kinsport Festival: The Card Game, and Building an Elder God: A Game of Lovecraftian Construction. Lovecraft himself: Lovecraft Letter, H.P. 29 games reference “Cthulhu” somewhere in the title.
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