Cthulhu Saves the World

Cthulhu Saves the World is a role-playing game developed by Zeboyd Games and released in 2010. It features turn-based combat and a comedic story in which Cthulhu seeks to regain his powers by becoming a hero…

90 30 December 2010

Indie Role-playing (RPG) Comedy Fantasy

Cthulhu Saves the World is an indie developed by Zeboyd Games, released 30 December 2010 on Xbox 360, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Cthulhu Saves the World is

Cthulhu Saves the World is an indie game developed by Zeboyd Games and released in 2010. It is available on Xbox 360, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Cthulhu Saves the World is an indie turn-based role-playing video game developed and published by Zeboyd Games. It was released in 2010 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service, and in 2011 for Windows. It was later bundled with its predecessor, Breath of Death VII, as a compilation release. A parody resembling a retro 16-bit JRPG and based on the Cthulhu Mythos, the game stars the Great Old One Cthulhu as an antiheroic protagonist who is stopped by a wizard before he can destroy the world. He must become a "true hero" in order to break the spell and regain his evil powers. The game received favorable reviews from critics, and was a commercial success. It was praised for its value, but…

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How it plays

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

How it was received

Cthulhu Saves the World holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.6Ghz or higher, 1GB of RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Cthulhu Saves the World launched on 30 December 2010, within three weeks of LittleBigPlanet 2, Dungeon Defenders, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Back to the Future: The Game. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: LittleBigPlanet 2, Dungeon Defenders, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Back to the Future: The Game.

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