Lust for Darkness Reviews

Challenging and fun

An insult to HPL and his work. Made by degenerate virgins.

Genuinely very rich in lore, loved it cant complain

Overall, I liked it. As pointed out by others - It was not exactly what many of us imagined it to be. The environment was however eerie throughout. The game play is OK. I liked the fact that the puzzles were not overtly difficult. You want to enjoy the game not become a detective. The main boss Willard is somewhat a dick. Ironically, he appears to be dickless. Since, I did not spend too much of it, I think it was worth it.

For me this was more disturbing than scary. (I prefer it that way.) The horror elements are straight out of Lovecraft - good quality, if not particularly original. I recognize Giger's influence in Lusst'ghaa. The scenes on Earth are also visually impressive. The idea of mixing horror and eroticism is uncommon, and I like this for its uniqueness. It is just a bit more than a walking simulator, which is fine to me. It could have had more erotic elements, but I enjoyed it enough to feel satisfied leaving a positive review.

Sadly its not as good as I expected and is at best a decent game best bought cheap at sale. If you play the sequel Lust From Beyond first this game will feel a huge letdown as I experienced. Best way is to play this first in order. Play this before Lust From beyond you may like this better for first time play then. The sequel is 300% times bigger, more polished with better balanced exploration and gameplay. This one feels more a short stealth exploration with very little happening in terms of horror or mystic. The main villain barely appears in 3 scenes before bossfight and main heroine central to story Amanda has equally less screen time barely 3 scenes again after intro cutscene. You play her husband Jonathan who, after 1 year of his wife Amanda's vanishing finds out her location in a Gothic mansion owned by a millionaire scion Willard Yelverton. Willard leads a dark secret cult of orgy seeking to enter another dimension Lusst Ghaa through rituals to invoke it's God of Lust. For decades his cult started by his grandfather has been seeking a woman who can see the other powerful dimension, sense it's vibrations, whose child offered is the key to open it. For most part you just sneak around the mansion trying to locate your wife and her newborn child while travelling alternately between the Mansion and the dimension Lusst Ghaa, solving some puzzles, inspecting objects. It barely takes the story forward except collecting background history through collectibles. There is no action to complement the events. The sequel has action realistically where you are forced to kill people to save own life or directly fight bosses mixing stealth with attacks. Here the boss fight again needs strategy and stealth using the environment and location to defeat and get out of. That takes away satisfaction some. The Orgies, perversion, darkness, evil, character motivation, detailed background, Lusst Ghaa realm world is handled far better in tthe sequel than here. Graphics, movement are passable. The elements that are in this game are repeated in sequel like Orgies, a mystical otherworldly dagger, the Bossfights, Classic Piano Notes, Boss fight setting etc. The usual dark shameful family secrets are trademark of the series. The Mask of Insanity one needs to wear in Lusst Ghaa to travel can induce migraine, dizzyness, strain eyes. The effect is deliberate and I wish developers realized we are playing a game that does not need such experiences to play. Do not play that part too much in mask. Use mask only when you need find a way forward through invisible portals or read hyroglyphics of Lusst Gha. Thankfully you cannot wear it long risking insanity and restart of that area. The way Jonathan is shown as a strong determined smart guy here contrasts to how he becomes a pale shadow under control of Amanda, a sidekick merely in the sequel. Both games have same story running separated by a span of 2-5 years. The dark, sinister, evil, absolute background of Cult of Ecstacy, Doreen Austerlitz, Yelvertons Mansion and Lasih remains, with leadership changing hands. I wish the game was longer with some more intruging chapters and puzzles. Graphics isn't bad in terms of levels but is very dark and underlit, looking blurry. I get it the mansion is on a chosen invocation night invoking an orgy murderous ritual in candle light. Still its too dark overall to see well. The lighting could have been more better. Lusst Ghaa looks definitive with some laws, rules, look, feel, mechanics in the sequel. Here it just feels like an incoherent dark colorful mishmash. When you beat Willard in end Jonathan says - Thats it? After finishing the game you ask yourself same - Thats it? Thats all to play? Overall would recommend buy cheap at sale, not expect a big well defined game like the sequel. The game still works and functions fully without breaking down. Its not bad just falls short on delivering what it promised.