Almost every mechanic in The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu is filtered through the lens of either cosmic horror or seventeenth-century monasticism, leading to some ingenious twists on well-worn extraction shooter tropes. My review for @bloody-disgusting.com
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‘The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu’ Review: Cosmic Horror Elevates a Thrilling Co-Op Shooter
The dynamic at the heart of extraction shooters is so well suited to horror that it’s kind of amazing that most of the genre’s foundational works have taken either a sci-fi or militaristic bent, rathe...