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Big Beautiful Cthulhu

An arcade style 2.5D game where the player plays as Cthulhu, eating planets to get larger, whilst avoiding black holes and stars. This game was made by a two man team for the Epic MegaJam 2021, with the theme…

2 September 2021

Big Beautiful Cthulhu is an arcade developed by 3StrakGames, released 2 September 2021 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Big Beautiful Cthulhu is

Big Beautiful Cthulhu is an arcade game developed by 3StrakGames and released in 2021. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An arcade style 2.5D game where the player plays as Cthulhu, eating planets to get larger, whilst avoiding black holes and stars. This game was made by a two man team for the Epic MegaJam 2021, with the theme 'running out of space'.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Big Beautiful Cthulhu launched on 2 September 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.

Official trailer

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When did Big Beautiful Cthulhu come out?
Big Beautiful Cthulhu was released on 2 September 2021 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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