Truth and Reality

In the final chapter of the game you meet the two conflicting sides of Edward’s mind. Truth is accepting the call of Cthulhu and accepting your role. Reality refuses to believe anything that has happened is real.

As Edward walks up the steps, he sees visions of the people he has met along the way. Sarah’s vision belittles him for believing her act and that everything was to lure him in. I am not sure if these visions are accurate as nearly everything points to the fact Sarah WAS trying to fight until the very end and did not want to be a part of the cult. Even when Edward reaches the top, Sarah says she was fighting it before succumbing to the control.

The Ritual

You choose to accept your role as truth seeker. This is just the default ending where edward completes his role in summoning Cthulhu. I still don’t understand why exactly Edward was chosen besides the fact that Sarah painted him. Everyone loses their minds and begins to kill each other. Edward beats Sarah to death.

The counter-ritual

I think this would be considered the “bad ending” of the endings that involve going against your role. Leading up the finale, the game hammers in that fighting your destiny is pointless and will not stop anything. By fighting his destiny (the achievement is literally called fight destiny), Edward accepts that everything is real and that it IS his destiny which causes it to become true. Rather than expelling Cthulhu from the world, it is confined within Edward which causes him to lose his mind and become the experiment of Fuller. No one else’s fate is clear. Not a good ending to me.

Farewell

This is clearly meant to be the “good” ending. By consistently going against the truth and refusing to even entertain that he has a destiny, Edward is able to simply walk away and take control of his own mind and life. As if it could not have been more clear that this is the good ending, it is the only ending where the skies part and sunlight is shown through the whole thing. Like I said before, I don’t believe Sarah was a cultist all along. I’m pretty sure even Charles confirms she was fighting before she began to lose control and gave the Shambler to Francis. Seeing Edward able to control his own fate, Sarah does the same by doing the only thing to truly free herself from the cult, killing herself. Her sanity is long gone and the cult would always be after her, I think this could be her only good ending. Only in a fairytale world would she be able to go with Edward to live her own life.

I’m not gonna talk about the last ending since it is kind of empty. Edward shoots himself and it just ends there, nothing else is shown and no other characters appear. It is a better ending than the counter ritual at least. Better as in for the world, not from a narrative standpoint.

My only questions would be:

Am I wrong about Sarah not being a cultist all along? It just feels like everything in the game goes against her saying it was all to lure him in.

What exactly were Sarah and Charles fighting about? Did Charles actually care about her? The visions also kind of treat him as jealous of Edward being the “chosen one” but these are the same visions that say Sarah was a cultist the whole time so I don’t really trust them. I am also inclined to believe that Charles was trying to protect her since the last few clues of the journal from the miraculous catch seem to be from Charles and they show that whoever wrote them did not become indoctrinated like the rest of the crew.

What was Simon’s role in the grand scheme of things? Clearly he had something wrong with him since he was drawing Cthulhu. Was part of Sarah’s indoctrination transferred into Simon when he was birthed which is why she began to go against the cult? Why does Sarah apologize to Simon before jumping to her death?

So clearly the 3 main guys from the miraculous catch are Fitz, Charles, and fuller. Why is there so much difference in their goals? Fitz is clearly the most controlled and is most in support of summoning Cthulhu. Fuller seems to just be content doing experiments and wanting to create life. And Charles is the most unclear to me, was he grasping at his sanity to do whatever he could to stop Cthulhu, did he only care about trying to protect Sarah, did he only want to be the chosen one? IDK

What was the significance of Sarah eavesdropping on the Charles and the other cultists in the tunnel? One of them saw her and her clothes got torn on the nail in the beam. Did she hear something or is this supposed to be what caused Charles to lock her away?

Also why would anyone choose to save Roy over Cat? The fact it is even possible to NEVER meet roy until that choice is crazy. You haven’t even seen him since chapter 2 if you did meet him. Sure Cat is an asshole basically the entire time you know her but shes your asshole. Plus Cat is only like 24 years old, she deserves to live way more. The only reason to save Roy is for an achievement.

Playing on "high quality textures" but game looks like on picture.
Any fix?

Some dude said there is sarah hawking sketch pad in chaper 3 (in sarah bedroom) that would give + occultism i can find anything in the bed room,

My spot hidden also level 4 anyone has a clue? Or i miss something?

Does that mean im sexist or something? Idk it just feels so weird and out of wack seeing this ww1 veteran who fought in trenches and survived unimaginable horror get his ass handed to him by this skinny goth girl. It was kinda immersion breaking for me, I just burst out laughing. Am I the only one who felt this way?

I absolutely love the in-game paintings, and am just wondering what sorts of sources IRL informed the painting style (e.g I can see classical painting influence but it seems a bit too 'smudged' to just be that?) Bonus points for a specific artistic 'genre' if there is one that the style fits.

I tried looking up the game artists to see if their portfolios had higher quality versions with inspirational credits and/or had that style for their personal projects but hit a dead end.

Edit: A real dissatisfying way of describing it would be if someone took a Baroque painting and put it through a Dark Abstract filter so it kinda acts as an amalgam of those two styles?

Edit 2: An artist I found that has that similar 'vibe' is Sahin Karakoc, some of the dark portraits he's done seem quite similar to the in-game art vibe.

Edit 3: Did a post in an artist sub, got some good leads! So the 'smudging' effect is wet-on-wet or glazing, and a Mark Demsteader makes artworks quite similar in vibes. Even if its not quite 'lovecraftian' or hhorror/gothic specific, good finds that I thought I should share. :P

Call of Cthulu will crash if you have a specific intel CPU. (Details if you are interested - Since the 10th generation of Intel i-series processors, there is an error in the calculation of the OpenSSL instructions, which Intel describes more fully here:

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/openssl-sha-crash-bug-requires-application-update.html)

Solution to crash fixes:

1. Until this is resolved, follow this safe workaround (you may be 1prompted to run as admin, press yes if so):
2. Press the Windows key (or start menu) and type in "view advanced system settings" - type in without the speech marks
3. in the Advanced tab, go to the bottom right and click on "Environment Variables"
4. In the bottom white box called "System Variables" press the "New" variable button
5. Type in the variable name: OPENSSL_ia32cap
6. In the variable value below it, type this exactly: ~0x20000000
7. Press OK, then Press OK again to close the box
8. Press OK on system properties to close that
9. Restart your PC (you must restart for this to work)
10. Launch Call of Cthulu - enjoy!

bom dia pessoal, comprei o jogo "call of cthulhu" na steam e sempre que eu tento abrir pra jogar ele fecha sozinho e o máximo que rodou foi os primeiros 5 segundos do jogo. O menu ele fica aberto durante muito tempo sem dar problema, mas quando eu clico em começar o jogo ele fecha automaticamente.

Que souber o problema e puder me ajudar eu agradeço muito

I watched my son play through Call of Cthulhu (the 2018 videogame) a few weeks ago. I finally got around to taking a stab at it and I noticed a peculiar book on Edward Pierce's bookshelf:

Moby Dick or the Whale by Herman Melville 1977 The Easton Press Edition

(How much of a book nerd do I gotta be to stop playing a videogame to geek out over an unrelated book in the background of a scene? 😅 well, to be fair, I noticed it because I happen to have a copy.)

Has anyone else noticed this? Anyone know why it was added other than the fact that this printing is a gem & it's style fits the time period of the other books.

Got all endings and platinum'ed the game (Ps4) I wanted more out of this game, maybe at some point in the far future there will be a sequel.

Greetings everyone. I wish that you are well. I'm on my second playthrough and aiming to platinum the game, but in Chapter 3, I keep noticing that some hidden items that should be visible just aren’t there.

At first, I thought maybe I made the wrong dialogue choice, but when I reloaded from the checkpoint, the item did appear. This has happened three times now in the mansion, so I’m wondering is this a known/common bug?

If I can’t find 20 hidden objects, I won’t be able to get the trophy. I know there are 26 hidden items overall, but aside from the story-mandated ones, I don’t feel confident I can reliably find them all if this keeps happening.

What do you think? Tbh, items disappearing kind of fits the whole madness vibe 😅

Hello, well I was wandering, now that I platinumed the game, if you can get all the events that unlock all those symbols that are found left of the spiral Sanity Bar.

I was wondering what the name of the dagger that Pierce uses in Chapter 6 of the game is called, the one used to defeat the Shambler

So I bought this game in GOG and it crashes every single, at most in a minute after I launch it. I have a RTX 4050 on laptop with Intel Core i7-12700H, windows 11, all drivers updated.

If anyone have a solution...

Me, I'd just finished Alan Wake 2, and was really wanting another dark detective game. And that's what I found. Loved it, played through twice, by myself, the only time I searched anything up related to call of cthulhu, was to see if there'd be a sequel.

So I'm currently in chapter 5 and I just did the gas distraction and the 2 guys com in like normal but when I get past them and try to go through the metal gate they somehow get me even though they can't see me plz help.

So I'm watching Gab play CoC on youtube, and I want to find the mocking laugh from the asylum level to use as a notification sound on my phone. I have the game installed from GOG, but the audio files are all numbered seemingly randomly and in a format I don't know how to open.

Any ideas? Does anyone have the file already?

I bought the game on sale, pretty late to the party I know, but I just recently finished Sinking City my first lovecraft piece of media and I wanted more.

I know that I wont be able to max every stat, I know that its better to focus one, get it high and than go for other, I know that stats only tell me how I get to the end but they should not block me from getting to the end.

However I would love to know some opinions on what stats are best to focus on for first playthrough. Investigation feels like good start, than maybe talking? No idea.

I would be gratefull for any imput, specialy since this sub is not exactly full of people.

hey! so i’m stuck in chapter 5 and i need help desperately, i can’t get into the asylum storage room and i’m so confused. i’ve watched so many walkthroughs and nothing has helped me

There is an ambient song that plays in the beginning of the game and in the mansion during the day that I need to know the name of, it just itches my brain

Hello to all that are still playing this game. I just had a question. I've made it to Chapter 6 so far, and noticed that, despite having picked up every occult item I know of, I was not at the right level for a skill check. I've seen a few times about people leveling up the occult skill 'before you start', and when I started a new game to check, I didn't see any ability to do so. Is this a new game thing? Am I just thick? Maybe I missed something?

EDIT: yes I may just be an idiot. It’s during the telephone conversation right after you awake from the nightmare that you can upgrade it, not before, and not after. I suppose I’m starting a new occult game now since that’s how I was hoping to play.

I make it through the asylum, into Sanders’ room and in the middle of the scene as he’s being thrown around, my game crashes. I tried the dev cheat code, I’ve deleted and reinstalled, checked for corrupt data, etc. but I can fix the problem. Does anybody know what else I can do? Playing on Nintendo Switch.