Time ago we reported the News that the development studio Frogwares was working on Call of Cthulhu , published by Focus Home . Two years later the project resurfaces but with development moved into the hands of the French Cyanide Studio , team down known for Styx: Master of Shadows and Blood Bowl , and with a transformation from an actual action-adventure role playing game.

Always under the wing of Focus Home , Cyanide Studio has promised to carry out the adaptation of the famous short story by h. p. Lovecraft that fans have been waiting for. Moved by the powerful Unreal Engine 4, Call of Cthulhu presents itself as an RPG of psychological horror and hued investigative stealth mechanics. The story we will investigate the death of a famous artist and his family died in a mysterious island full of secrets and horrors, where the sleeping God Cthulhu prepares his awakening.

From what we can learn from the viewpoint of the gameplay it will be a pure RPG, so much so that the game will inherit the rule set of the paper role playing game of Chaosium first released in 1981.

Cédric Lagarrigue, the CEO of Focus Home Interactive , said " we are deeply honored to partner again with Cyanide Studio, team grew up with us for 10 years, becoming one of the most important independent European team. Their creativity has generated popular titles like Styx: Master of Shadows and Blood Bowl, and now they're about to make a game out of Cthulhu full of originality. "

" We are happy that we have entrusted the development of Focus Home literary adaptation of Call of Cthulhu . We are big fans of the license, and we hope to give players the game who have long waited for , "said the CEO of Cyanide Studio , Patrick Pligersdorffer .

It seems so that fans of Lovecraft and everything drew inspiration would do well to keep an eye on Call of Cthulhu . The release date is unfortunately still far, labelled with a generic 2017, but meanwhile we can take a look at the beautiful screenshots that give a positive idea of the sombre first graphic style.