Not to be confused with the tabletop game Call of Cthulhu nor with its official videogame adaptation Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game. Still Dark Corners of the Earth is considered by some critics to be an excellent, if not the best, Survival Horror video game at the time of release.
There are a lot of compatibility issues which were only compounded by the studio going bankrupt shortly after release meaning there's no official bug fix patches, though a couple of dedicated fans have tried their hands at some. Sadly the game's engine has not aged well. Though he is eventually declared sane and released, Walters is obviously no longer fit to be in the police force, and is now trying to make a living as a private investigator, actually investigating what he did himself during his period of amnesia between cases for other clients. It turns out that whatever happened inside the manor gave him a Split Personality, and his new identity had taken over his body for half a decade, resulting in him getting incarcerated in an Arkham sanatorium. Skip ahead a few years, and Walters has lost his memory of what exactly happened inside, and the events afterwards. What he finds inside is quite disturbing. Taking cover, Walters accidentally locks himself inside the manor.
Walters arrives, but a shootout occurs anyway. They demand that Jack Walters be sent in to speak with them. The cult is armed with rifles, and refuses to allow the police into the manor. At the start of the game, the Boston Police Department has arrived at an old manor at the edge of the city to investigate alleged crimes of a resident cult called the Brotherhood of Yith. Players take on the role of Jack Walters, a police detective with a reputation for seemingly impossible insight into difficult cases, in 1920's Massachusetts.
It is the last title developed by the now-defunct Headfirst Productions, and was published by Bethesda Softworks in the year 2005. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a horror/adventure video game based on the Cthulhu Mythos, specifically The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shadow Out of Time.
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