THE SINKING CITY
“THE GAME SHINES WHEN YOU’RE UNCOVERING STRANGE LOVECRAFTIAN TALES.”
Oakmont is the picture of a perfect American city: a chicken in every pot, and a writhing, unknowable, tentacled creature in the garage. The city is in the grip of a Biblical flood, and its citizens are dealing with it by just carrying on. It’s unnerving in a way that feels realistic. Humans adapt, like frogs coming to the boil.
Walking the streets definitely evokes a unique mood. There haven’t been many attempts at collecting elements of HP Lovecraft’s mythology to create a tangible place that have really worked, especially not in the world of videogames where the prevalent
