Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure is a comedy point 'n click love letter to classic-era Lucas adventures, HP Lovecraft, Hitchcock and many, many others. A lighthearted spoof of the Cthulhu Mythos, Gibbous will…
Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure is an adventure developed by Stuck In Attic, released 7 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure is
Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure is an adventure game developed by Stuck In Attic and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure (PC, Mac, Linux) is a comedy point 'n click love letter to classic-era Lucas adventures, HP Lovecraft, Hitchcock and many, many others. A lighthearted spoof of the Cthulhu Mythos, Gibbous will have you controlling 3 protagonists, dealing with strange cultists, ancient voodoo, and Dead Cthulhu himself. Well, "dead" is just a matter of opinion... Everything revolves around the dreaded Necronomicon and how it affects the protagonists' lives. Grizzled detective Don R. Ketype wants it because he always gets his man (or book); and easy going, easy living librarian Buzz Kerwan stumbles upon it and accidentally transforms his cat, Kitteh, into a talking abomination…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2,5 GHz Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon, 4 GB RAM and Dedicated video graphics card with 2GB of memory. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure launched on 7 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Remnant: From the Ashes and Wolfenstein: Youngblood. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Remnant: From the Ashes, Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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