The latest Nintendo Direct held a plethora of exciting news and announcements for the Nintendo Switch, with classics getting ported for the console and new developments on upcoming releases.
With a very ambitious port already slated in Vampyr, Focus Home Interactive has also announced another Switch release for one of their acclaimed titles. First released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC back in October of 2018, the Lovecraftian horror game Call of Cthulhu, developed by Cyanide Studio, has been announced for a Switch release this October. There’s no word yet if it will have a physical run, but Switch players can expect the file size at 7.0GB. Check out a Switch trailer for Call of Cthulhu below.
Unfortunately, there was no actual gameplay shown in the trailer, but the game does put a heavier emphasis on detective work and narrative rather than action, so there’s that. Call of Cthulhu is a direct adaptation from two sources: H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, “The Call of Cthulhu,” and the 1981 classic pen-and-paper role-playing game of the same name from Chaosium.
Call of Cthulhu tells the story of Edward Pierce, a war veteran who became a private investigator after the war. During the events of the story, he is plagued by increasingly bizarre nightmares, which come to a head after he is tasked with investigating the strange case of the Hawkins family. The family mysteriously died in a fire, with the only clue being an odd picture painted by the assumedly insane mother shortly before their deaths. To find out what happened, Pierce travels to Darkwater Island off the coast, happening upon strange sciences, whispered conspiracies, and extremely sinister cults. At the center of it all is the Great Dreamer himself, preparing for his terrible return.
Call of Cthulhu will be released for the Nintendo Switch on October 8.
