Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first person action/adventure game that combines stealth and shooting. Don't let the name fool you, much of the game is based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, my favorite Lovecraft story. This game also features gameplay mechanics based on loss of sanity, but it doesn't make it quite as interesting as Eternal Darkness did.
You play as a detective named Jack, sent to investigate a cult, the horrors of which lead to Jack being committed to an asylum. Upon his release, he travels to Innsmouth in search of a missing person and from there...Well. Things get pretty bad.
This game is terrifying. This is a spoiler, but there's one part taken directly from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, where your hotel room is being broken into and you have to attempt to escape. It's one of the scariest things I've had to do in a game and I remember turning it off for days because I was too afraid to play it.
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