HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising

I absolutely love this game, everything from story, to the visuals, to the unique characters. I love that each character has a tailor made interface that matches their personalities. The way everything is described is also a fun touch, especially character stats and relationships. If you love a good lovecraftian flavor this game is for you. The only downside is the bugs, it's understandable with it being a new game but there is definitely a need for patches. The game keeps breaking and it makes for a bit of chore to get back where I was. This is only negative for me thus far worth noting. That being said, I still I recommend this game. With a few patches this game will up there as one my personal favorites. This game needs more attention!

HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising reminds me of the time when computer games were the evolutionary successor to pen and paper RPGs. Instead of just being a retro exercise, Nyarlathotep Rising brings a literary sensibility to the text adventure game. You can play as one of three characters, but instead of running a new character through the same story, you see the same events through a different perspective. And even, the sound design and visual aesthetics also change to reflect the different characters' outlook and perspective. Finally, the writer and developer of HPL know and understand the Lovecraft mythos, you will not find any cute Cthulhu's or tentacle jokes here. It's the real thing. That being said, this is a text adventure, and the words have to carry the action. It may be my modern demand for dopamine feedback but it's tempting to click through the game when there are longer passages of text with no choice to make. And since the game is essentially your gamemaster, it could do a better job of hinting at the consequences of some of your choices. Minor flaws aside, I hope this is successful enough for developers return to the mythos with another entry in the series.

Not really worth the price. Spuns a lot of references, but the plot is just so generic CoC. No meaningful decisions except standard: defy / sacrifice / save the damsel. A lot of smokescreen references to mythos tomes, creatures etc., but none of it gets into the gameplay. Stats play no role. Relations play no role. Everything boil down just to final choices, but nothing interesting on the chapters 1-5, but the fluff-filling, meaningless flashbacks. It is a shame, because I really wanted to like this one.

Love it. Good story, and difficult to succeed. Maybe a tad over-priced for the game style, but it has some depth to it, options-wise. I actually kind of like that it limits you to one game at a time with no saves to work, just tracks progress for one game/character at a a time, starting another game wipes your previous progress. And while it is somewhat forgiving when you finally die, allowing you to pick up again with narrowed choices forward, I find that it's too late to avoid the same fate fairly immediately and have to start over again for my two runs through it so far. So it may be a bit before I figure out how to ever 'succeed' at anything near the actual end-game. No idea how close I've come to the end before dying. About to start my third run at it. Not bored yet.

J'ai fait le Kickstarter, et j'ai déboursé 89€ pour des contreparties physiques que j'attend toujours. Le jeu était censé être en VF. J'ai contacté l'éditeur qui fait la sourde oreille.

I like this game but December update made it unplayable. There are multiple pages with missing text and some character names are also just lines of code, which makes it impossible to follow the story. I will update my review if game is fixed, but now I can't recommend it to anyone.

Beautifully written and interesting. Definitely captures the Lovecraft atmosphere and possibility of breaking down along the way. Decisions feel meaningful but also not always predictable. Fascinating.

I purchased the game as it was on my wishlist for a while. The first 5 or so minutes of the game were really good. Good storyline, nice "choice matters" selections, etc. Then suddenly the text disappeared and was replaced by the string or file name, which is bad for a text based game. I tried to move ahead a bit to just see if it was just one section of the game, but sadly it looked like it was a good chunk of at least the beginning as I couldn't progress further without knowing what was going on in the story. I checked the community comments and noticed that months ago others had mentioned the same issue, but it doesn't seem to have since then been patched or fixed. Sadly, rather disappointing as it looked like a pretty good game.