CALL OF THE SEA

Developer Out Of The Blue

Publisher Raw Fury

Format PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Origin Spain

Release 2020

Even if its island setting hadn’t been quite so easy on the eye, the debut game from aptly-named Spanish studio Out Of The Blue would have stood out a mile during Microsoft’s Xbox Series X showcase. This colourful 1930s-set firstperson adventure went very much against the dark, gritty grain – so it’s a surprise when game director mentions HP Lovecraft as an influence. Though it’s not the will occasionally dabble in the occult. It stems, she says, from a desire to show a different side to Lovecraftian fiction. “You usually only see one part of the stories he’s telling – tentacles, Cthulhu and so on – and we wanted to explore a different way.”