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• gamedeal user

  May 30, 2014

  This is a game I heard some positive buzz back when it came out on smartphones ages ago, but unfortunately virtually nothing was done to polish and prepare it for a PC release. I won't speak much to writing and presentation, since the controls kept me from progressing very far. They are wildly unintuitive, it seems no consideration was given to updating them for PC gamers. The many, many developers now porting their smartphone games to the Steam marketplace really need to realize what works on one device does not always work for another. Taking the time to fix up your release for the new audience will earn you a lot of mileage, and a lot less negative reviews.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 23, 2014

  A long time ago these controls sucked hard, but with new update it is much better now. The atmosphere feels great with Lovecraftian themes, not just from Cthulhu but also from Herbert West: Reanimator. Gamplay wise its a LOT like XCOM. Its a port straight from a mobile game, so don't expect triple A graphics. Has some pretty good music in it. Overall, if you like XCOM type gamplay and lovecraft then this is the game for you.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 25, 2014

  In Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land, it's basically the characters you control being dropped off for a happy-go-lucky jaunt of shooting eldritch horrors and cultists in the face, learning things man was never meant to know, and spamming lots of Psychoanlysis checks. Really though, Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is what you pay for. It's a good game, but short and sweet. It has it's replay value, but for most people, once you finish it you probably won't be touching it again, save for the extra missions. As a game, it holds up well, although it's not entirely faithful to the Mythos (we all know that the invesitgators would get their s*** slapped by these things). But, relating to the Call of Cthulhu tabletop game by Chaosium? These are all characters you may very well expect to see in any other CoC tabletop campaign. I'd say that if you're looking for a quick game with some interesting survival elements and a fun battle system, pick this one up. But if you're looking for something a bit more in-depth and drawn out in your RPG strategy collection, this is a game that wont' be satisfying you any time soon.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2014

  played it a fair few hours. Very much a Julian Gollop style Laser Squad game and but with some seriously horrendous input HCI issues,. the controls were clearly done with a touch-screen in mind and it hasnt translated over to the PC well, also, the deal breaker; the fcuker crashes! Crashes to the point where I couldnt get past turn 22 on the 4th level. Screw that, lifes too short to mess around with workarounds and Windows settings. 6/10 for me, would been 8/10 if actually worked and had decent keyboard/mouse control.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 10, 2014

  Clunky! Buggy! cheesy dialogue! weapons like the Carrier Pigeon! vague directions like 'go east', but with no compass, pointer or map, so east is.... effing well where? (grrrrrr) (did I mention frustrating at times) user unfriendly in places but........ ....... strangely addictive ia ia Cthulhu ftaughn!! *twitch* *gibber* TLDR - well worth it when on sale if you remember Call of Cthulhu paper and dice or have read teh books/played other mythos games/enjoy pain :P
• gamedeal user

  Feb 6, 2015

  H. P. Lovecraft entertained us with stories of madness and the unknown back in the early 20th century. Known for his works of ‘The Shadow out of Time and ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, his other work, ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ is what this game is based on (obviously). Now a registered trademark of Chaosium Inc, this game is centred on The Call of Cthulhu RPG. Originally made for the iOS, the ported PC version is quite reasonable, despite its apparent handset limitations as there are no real extra features to take advantage of the PC. Yet it’s entertaining enough to finish due to its tactical nature. The game itself has eleven missions and each one can take about an hour or so. Also note that even though the maps are quite small, it’s the nature of turned based combat that makes it longer. And as mentioned before, each mission will test a variety of skills therefore boredom won’t come easily. That said, because it’s a ported game, it’s a decent one at that however it could benefit more if the game has added features to compliment the PC world and not a direct copy from the mobile world, as highly evident from the user interface. But it’s certainly a decent game to play despite the lack of features that you come to expect from a good turned based game like Silent Storm, Gorky or the Jagged Alliance series. Plenty of love was poured into this game so it’s a worthwhile trip that pays respectable homage to H. P. Lovecraft. Full review here: http://www.gamespot.com/call-of-cthulhu-the-wasted-land/user-reviews/2200-12633514/ 7.5 / 10
• gamedeal user

  May 9, 2016

  At first I enjoyed this game. But around halfway into the campaign, it gets really annoying. Enemies appear on the edge, and you can't really stop your guys from getting shot or beaten by zombies even when you hide in cover. It's all quite frustrating.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 2, 2016

  Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a turn-based strategy title with minor RPG elements. As you may have guessed from the name, the game is based off of H.P. Lovecraft's works within the Cthulhu Mythos; it also features some narrative based off of Herbert West - Reanimator. Since the developer/publisher Red Wasp Design Ltd have disband, this title has been disabled for purchase on the store page. That being said, there are keys still floating around if you truly wish to buy or trade for it. Set in the year 1915 during World War I, you will control a team of investigators and soldiers who have been sent on a mission to investigate the Cult of the Awakened. The head of the cult, Docktor Kaul, has stolen the reanimation technology from Herbert West and he has combined it with arcane mythos magic in order to raise a powerful undead army using the casualties from The Great War. Docktor Kaul wants to eliminate all of humanity to make room for a new, superior, hybrid species; half human, half Star Spawn of Cthulhu. I'm personally a huge fan of Cthulhu and H.P. Lovecraft in general. It saddens me to say that this game is abysmally boring; what you see in the trailer is pretty much what you get. The environments are almost soundless, the gameplay is excruciatingly slow-paced, the dialogue is uninteresting, and the level designs are dull with a good chunk of them featuring trenches. From the screenshots and trailer on the store page, you may think that you will be playing in a semi-open world, but in reality the maps are suffocatingly small. All of this makes sense once you know that Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a mobile port, one that surprisingly won a few awards. A lot of people have had problems with the mechanics of the game, but if you take the Basic Training course at the beginning they're much easier to understand. They're still pretty awful controls, but at least there is a small tutorial. If you left click an enemy, the screen jumps to it and reveals all of its stats; you have to right click it to attack. Each investigator/soldier has a set of numbers that indicates their health, action points, and sanity. Action points are used to move around the map and attack monsters, and they can be reset by ending your turn. The sanity points go down each time the character attacks and/or gets hit by a foe that is not of the human variety. If a character runs out of sanity, they either freeze up for several turns or go in to a manic mode, dealing a ton of damage but then they become incapacitated afterward. If you fail to revive an incapacitated team member, they die within a set number of turns; this can also be said for when all health points are depleted. If a "main member" dies, you must restart the entire level again. Some levels also have a limited amount of turns that can be expended before the level will end in a game over. In many cases, you must also wait X amount of turns for one of the main investigators to research something before you can move forward. Each investigator and soldier can have two weapons, two items, and two pieces of armor; the further progress you make in the game, the more weapons, items, and armor that you unlock. However, you must purchase these things from the store at the end of each level. Likewise, you also spend any earned experience points at the end of a level. You only get one massive sum of XP, it is not divided up per character. Honestly, the game is made easy even on hard difficulty if you just put all of the XP into the rifle weapon for each character, and buy rifles for each of them. They do the most damage, and have the longest range. It's a huge loophole that negates almost any challenge that this title could've had. Overall, the most irritating thing about this title is the fact that every single time you attack an enemy, the screen has to jump to center on it; even if you're just a couple of steps away. The timing isn't always the same, so while your eyes are expecting the quick motion and follow through with it, it doesn't happen, leaving your eyes to constantly want to dart all over the place. This lovely feature, combined with some of the most dry and dusty gameplay ever conceived, makes Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land hard to recommend even to the most avid H.P. Lovecraft fan. [h1] Rating: [b]2.0/5.0[/b] - It's not awful, but it's not great.[/h1] The Horror Network [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28221963/]Curator[/url] | [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thehorrornetwork]Group[/url] Click for Gore
• gamedeal user

  Jun 12, 2017

  Interesting subject, some cthulhu-specific specifics, but otherwise very simplistic turn-based tactical battle game. There are dozens like this on the market, many of them better than this.
• Virtualanimal

  Jul 4, 2019

  Fun little turn based tactic game. Fhtagn!