H.P. Lovecraft is the new zombies isn’t it? You can’t move for games featuring protagonists losing their mind and tentacles slurping out of dark corners. The latest game to be inspired by H.P. is Moons of Madness, a cunning play on the book At the Mountains of Madness.
If that name rings a bell it’s because it was announced back in August 2017 with a release date in 2018, obviously that never happened and now the game has been revaled once more with a release near Halloween this year on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
Funcom are now publishing the game and that seems to be why it it was delayed. “The two Norwegian studios got together and took the initial concept to new heights through expanded gameplay and scope to fully realize the potential of the bone-chilling story,” states the press release.
As it’s Friday and I’m feeling incredibly lazy, here’s some blurb from the press release to explain the plot.
In Moons of Madness you play Shane Newehart, a technician stationed at the Invictus, a secret research base built by the Orochi group. Your low security clearance means you are completely unaware of the existence of a mysterious, intelligent signal that has been detected as coming from the red planet. Your job is simply to keep the lights on until the transport ship Cyrano arrives bringing with it a new team to take over your duties. Soon you discover strange and unusual setbacks. Crucial systems are malfunctioning, the greenhouse is filled with a strange mist and the rest of your team has yet to return from their EVA mission. You begin seeing and hearing things that aren’t there. Visions, hallucinations – or is that even what it is? Is this real… or are you slowly descending into madness?
Source: Press release / YouTube / Feverish dreams of tentacled monstrosities devouring all life beamed in to my brain by our lord and saviour Cthulhu.
