Watch A Teaser For An H.P. Lovecraft Tale Being Brought To Life In New Game

H.P. Lovecraft’s horror stories are beautifully intricate and complex with colorful characters and dark and twisted storylines. His story, At The Mountains Of Madness, is being adapted into a first-person adventure by a two-man Spanish developer, Team Clockwork. Check out the teaser for the upcoming beta below.

From studying the beta teaser, it’s apparent this game will take after first-person adventure games like MYST and Amnesia: The Dark Descent where story happenings are based purely on exploration and interaction.

The original novella, written by Lovecraft in 1931, is narrated by a Dr. William Dyer who is trying to convince a team of explorers and researchers, who are part of a very popular and publicized scientific expedition, to not venture out to a dangerous location on the Antarctic continent. He tells them never-before-heard reports of what supposedly went down with the last Antarctic team that braved the cold and desolate camp.

Using Unreal Engine 4, At The Mountains of Madness’ environment is beautifully crafted to depict the icy, empty camp. It has been greenlit on Steam and developers are planning to launch a Kickstarter to help further fund the project. First-person shooting will be a part of your defense against strange, unknown creatures and you’ll have to scavenge for resources to survive the freezing environment and hostile creatures. One Twitter user made a very astute observation about the beta trailer.

It really does look like there is a dinosaur hiding out in the background of a scene in the trailer.

So if there’s dinosaurs, what’s with the gigantic Cthulu-like alien towering over everything? How do dinosaurs fit into an Antarctic location? I guess we’ll just have to play it when it releases.

It looks like Team Clockwork tried to raise funds for the project back in July, but they only made €562 of their €5,000 goal. Their earlier video showcases other portions of the game not seen in the beta like another giant dinosaur, but you can definitely tell it’s an earlier version of the game and is not as refined as it is in the beta trailer.

So hopefully with a cleaner approach to story and gameplay, At The Mountains of Madness can prove to be successful this time around. As of right now, it has no official release date.