Eldritch

Minor Key Games' classic horror romp returns in this bigger and better sequel. Eldritch 2 is a first-person stealth action game inspired by immersive sims, roguelikes, and the works of H. P. Lovecraft. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2279280/Eldritch_2/ Wis…

Here's something magical and strange: a vast, perhaps endless world of glorious horrors, stuffed into a teeny tiny space. To put it another way, I discovered, when re-downloading Eldritch last week, that it all fits into a file that's just slightly larger than…

Technical changes 64-bit binaries New audio engine FXAA Vsync and unlocked timestep options (i.e., 144 fps?) Quality of life improvements Help menu "Go to folder" option Warning before entering Mountains of Madness MoM, Asylum, and Halloween entrances are hidd…

It's time once again for the Steam Winter Sale, and the Minor Key Games catalog is heavily discounted! Eldritch: 90% off! Super Win the Game: 80% off! NEON STRUCT: 90% off! Gunmetal Arcadia Zero: 50% off! Slayer Shock: 70% off! Gunmetal Arcadia: 40% off! And d…

When HP Lovecraft wrote the definition of the genre he more-or-less invented, he did it with the understanding that weird fiction was always going to be a niche taste. In his 1927 essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature, he declared that: "tales of ordinary f…

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Overtly Lovecraftian, subtly Thiefesque, Eldritch is a glorious experiment in lo-fi stealth-horror. (more…)

So often the bleeding edge of games tech, yet so often fundamentally the same underneath: there’s a reason we can’t get enough of pretend shooting pretend people in their pretend faces. It is a pure test of skill and reflex, a game about movement a…

There was a Buffy The Vampire Slayer game on the first Xbox, for our sins. I can remember playing it, hating it, then hating myself for having been suckered. It was hack and slash and jump and collect, of course: all license and no trousers. Slayer Shock too i…

Hey folks, my next game Slayer Shock is in the final stages of development and will be coming to Steam on September 29 for Windows, Mac, and Linux/SteamOS. Slayer Shock is a unique blend of immersive first-person action, lightweight strategy, and procedural na…

Hey folks, my next game Slayer Shock is in the final stages of development and will be coming to Steam on September 29 for Windows, Mac, and Linux/SteamOS. Slayer Shock is a unique blend of immersive first-person action, lightweight strategy, and procedural na…

Slayer Shock is the recently announced first-person Buffy-like vampire-killing game from David Pittman, creator of Eldritch and Neon Struct. The game has now landed on Steam Greenlight , with a ten minute walkthrough video showing a couple of missions as well …

Hey folks! My next game is called Slayer Shock. It's a sneaky shooty spooky game about hunting vampires in Nebraska, and it's coming out later this year for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's on Steam Greenlight now, and needs your votes and feedback! Plus check ou…

Hey folks! My next game is called Slayer Shock. It's a sneaky shooty spooky game about hunting vampires in Nebraska, and it's coming out later this year for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's on Steam Greenlight now, and needs your votes and feedback! Plus check ou…

Somehow we’ve not mentioned before that Eldritch and Neon Struct studio Minor Key Games are making a role-playing first-person shooter about youngfolk hunting vampires in Nebraska. Silly us. Slayer Shock is due to come out later this year and comes to my…

NEON STRUCT is a first-person stealth game from the makers of the excellent Eldritch. You play as a federal agent who falls foul of high-level conspiracy when an apparently routine mission goes wrong. It’s out now. It might have lacked much of what made …

Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you’re looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51. …

Eldritch received a small update this weekend. Resurrect in the library and head to the southwest corner to enter the new Halloween area. This spooky level is absolutely packed with loot. Use it to gear up for adventure! Or work on that 9,999 artifacts achieve…

Eldritch received a small update this weekend. Resurrect in the library and head to the southwest corner to enter the new Halloween area. This spooky level is absolutely packed with loot. Use it to gear up for adventure! Or work on that 9,999 artifacts achieve…

First-person, Lovecraft-themed explorey-death game Eldritch is so good . Somehow I didn’t think that the first time I played it. I thought it was Quite Good , and then I forgot about it. Recently, I’ve been going back to it, in the way I used to go…