Every game has been broader and more complex than the next, with a new title slated for later this year. Since then, the series now garners about 3,000 downloads a week on Android alone. Its first installment, Horror in the Darkness, was released last year, quickly followed by two sequels, Horror at Innsport and Horror in the Pacific. New Zealand-based Karmic Shift Studios’ trilogy of text-based role-play games certainly plays out like a love letter to the master of cosmic horror: their simple, no-frills interface makes for an immersive storytelling experience full of Lovecraftian tropes and turns that hardcore fans will quickly spot. They’re a perfect match to Lovecraft’s Mythos, which has always lent itself well to an interactive format, whether you’re rolling dice or maneuvering a console. Gamebooks-better known as those “Choose Your Own Adventure” paperbacks we all knew and loved from childhood-are a holdover print genre from the 90s that have found new life online, thanks to dedicated indie developers that made text games go mobile.
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