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H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Action/Adventure
Developer: Senscape Interactive

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'H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' Announced, Seeks Crowd Funding - Trailer

by Rainier on Oct. 1, 2014 @ 10:56 a.m. PDT

H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a 3rd person point & click adventure game where you travel back to vintage Providence and face horrors lurking underneath in the first official game based on the work of the famed writer.

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward invites you to explore mystery-laden Providence and uncover its enchanting secrets, research ancient history of witchcraft and occultism in shadow-blighted Salem, and sneak into an eerie Pawtuxet farm to meet unspeakable horrors lurking underneath in one of the most memorable sequences in Lovecraft’s oeuvre. Take the role of both the inquisitive Charles Dexter Ward and Dr. Marinus Willett in a race against time to save Providence (and possibly humankind) from the evil warlock Joseph Curwen, who has made a pact with powerful forces of ineffable cosmic hideousness to exert his abhorrent influence across centuries.

From visits to dusty libraries where awaits the hideous Necronomicon, through excursions to nightmarish cemeteries where time-worn bones tell of horrible past events, to sojourns in the old Salem-Village of crumbling gables and clustered gambrel roofs where wizards of yore still prowl, this is a blood-tingling project bound to stimulate the pineal glands of fans of adventure games and supernatural horror alike.

In Charles Dexter Ward there are no weapons, no enemies, no jumping, no running, and no dying, Senscape are going to focus strictly on story and mood. That is what the developers love about adventure games and Lovecraft, and have no intention to compromise his powerful, brooding narrative for the sake of cheap scares.

Senscape has launched a kickstarter campaign, looking for $250,000, to finish up development on H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

"It feels like only yesterday that we first read the novel, and even brief passages such as the oneiric sunrises in Prospect Terrace will be forever embedded in our minds. Lovecraft’s skilful pen transported us to a bygone time of witchcraft and unguessed horrors, magically interweaving historical facts and fiction, and we at Senscape are ready to do justice to this classic work."



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