Each month it seems a tidal-wave of ‘inspired by Lovecraft’ games surges past, heading on into oblivion. I don’t usually pay attention to them. But it seems worth noting the new Omen Exitio. It’s a ‘visual novel’ from Italy, and has high design-values and some minimal solo-play game elements…

“inspired by the [‘choose your own adventure’] gamebooks of the ’80s and ’90s”

The game elements are stats-gaining, not point-and-click puzzles, it seems.

Looks fun, though it needs Windows / Steam and is not for the Amazon Kindle.

Talking of the Kindle, the makers of the award-winning 80 Days are prepping their new game. It’s a science-fiction adventure in space, featuring lost races, linguistics and archaeology. Probably mid 2019. (Update: it’s out now, and is sadly not for the Kindle as their last game was).