#cthulhu
Concept: an otome dating sim where the player character is a bizarre Lovecraftian monstrosity - except none of the boys notice, and they all treat you like you’re a perfectly ordinary teenage girl.
All of your dialogue options are incomprehensible hissing and gurgling, or cryptic gestures with unearthly appendages; you’re never 100% certain what - if anything - you’re communicating, though the boys seem to understand you.
Rather than “Athletics” or “Charm”, your stats have strange names like “Viscosity”, “Amplitude” and “Bulk”. Figuring out what they actually do is as much as part of the challenge as figuring out how to raise them.
At the end of the game, you devour whichever boy you have the strongest bond with whole; this act of consumption determines the final form you evolve into, as well as the nature of the resulting global apocalypse.
Yes. I would play this.
Archfey:
- Oberon
- Titania
- Puck
- Sandman
- Fairy Godmother
- Peter Pan
- Loki
- Mr. Mxyzptlk
- The Embodiment of Whimsy
- The Embodiment of Romance
- The Embodiment of Tragedy
- The Embodiment of Comedy
- Baba Yaga
- Anansi
- Wisakedjak
- Ratatosk
- Santa Claus
- David Bowie
- Totoro
- The Lady of the Lake
- Jareth the Goblin King
The Great Old One:
- Dendar the Night Serpent
- Cthulhu
- Galactus
- Ego, the Living Planet
- Nyarlathotep
- The Outsider (Dishonored)
- The Kree Supreme Intelligence
- The Shadow, Ruler of the Empty (Supernatural)
- Kyubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- A Collective of Psionically Transcendent Aliens
- String Theory
- Color out of Space
- The Force (from Star Wars)
- The Man in The Moon
Fiend:
- Lucifer
- Charon
- Krampus
- Punchinello
- Tiamat
- Typhon
- Baba Yaga
- The Embodiment of Pain
- The Four Horsemen
Celestial:
- Ion, the Living Embodiment of Willpower (from DC)
- The Entity, the Living Embodiment of Life (from DC)
- The Sun
- Uriel
- Quetzalcoatl
- Santa Muerte
- Ramesses II
- The Muses
- The Triforce
The Ghost in the Machine:
- The Matrix
- The Source Code
- Nyarlathotep
- The Motherbox
- The Kree Supreme Intelligence
- The Dalek Supreme Council
- 21st Century Fox
- Amazon
The Undying:
- Davy Jones
- Charon
- Death
- Orcus
- Xibalba
- Mummy King
- The Lich King (from Warcraft)
New Lovecrafts for the library! UK paperbacks, 1985, cover art by Tim White