About the Lovecraft Arcade
The Lovecraft Arcade is a collection of free, browser-based arcade games created by Andrew Doss, each inspired by a story from the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft. Every game pairs a classic arcade format with a Lovecraftian setting, original pixel art, and an atmospheric soundtrack, and is playable free on desktop or mobile. It is part of Dosswerks Arcade.
- Dagon — A Defender-style underwater shooter inspired by Lovecraft's Dagon; defend the Monolith and the Deep Ones.
- Innsmouth Invaders — A Space Invaders-style shooter defending the shoreline against waves of sea-born horrors, inspired by The Shadow over Innsmouth.
- Mountains of Madness — A Satan's Hollow-style shooter through Lovecraft's Antarctic horror, battling Elder Things and a Shoggoth.
- Q*thulhu — A Q*bert-inspired hop across the impossible geometry of R'lyeh while dodging Cthulhu, inspired by The Call of Cthulhu.
- Brain Raid — A top-down dungeon-crawler shooter raiding a Mi-Go facility for stolen brain cylinders, inspired by The Whisperer in Darkness.
- Yithian — A Dragonfire-inspired two-phase game crossing bridges and looting the lost city of the Great Race of Yith, inspired by The Shadow Out of Time.
- Siege of Sarnath — A Centipede-inspired wall-defense shooter against the beings of Ib, inspired by The Doom That Came to Sarnath.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
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