Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
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| Developer(s) | Red Wasp Design |
| Publisher(s) | Red Wasp Design |
| Platform(s) | iOS, Microsoft Windows, Android |
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June 8, 2012 |
| Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a Lovecraftian horror tactical role-playing game developed by Red Wasp Design in conjunction with Chaosium. The game was released in 2012, first for iOS in January, then for PC in May, and for Android in June.
The Wasted Land is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of The Call of Cthulhu and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos. It bases some of its narrative on Lovecraft's novella Herbert West–Reanimator, and also contains elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. The game is set during World War I and pits a group of soldiers and investigators against a conspiracy within the German army to build an army of re-animated corpses from the dead of the conflict.
The game is a mixture of a turn-based strategy and a role-playing game. The developer explained the mix of gameplay, and the development process, as follows: "When we started out, we were aiming for something in the style of Fire Emblem or Advance Wars, but it's evolved into something more like X-Com as we've gone on. The closest parallel is probably with an old PC game called Incubation, which was more storyline-based than X-Com." In keeping with its influences, the game uses an action point system combined with aspects of the stats system from the paper version of Call of Cthulhu.
In 1915, Professor Brightmeer is called by a shadowy part of Britain's secret service MI-47, to go to France then in the midst of the great War. He joins a British Army officer, Captain Hill in tracking down a secret cult while the war rages about them. The cult, headed by a mysterious figure called Docktor Kaul is using the stolen technology of Herbert West (the re-animator) combined with arcane mythos magic to build an undead army from the victims of the Great War as part of a larger plot to eliminate humanity from earth to clear it for a new hybrid species of part human, part Star Spawn of Cthulhu. The Captain and the Professor track Kaul across the trenchlines, fighting German soldiers, the undead and the Cthulhu Mythos monsters, including the Dark Young and hybrid Star Spawn, eventually track Kaul to his underground lab where he has built a machine to generate monsters for Germany, also to power a ritual to summon a full Star Spawn. The ritual goes forward, and the Star Spawn appears. The player is victorious if the Star Spawn is defeated.
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