– The game begins as Gothic: werewolves, cathedrals, beast plagues. Midway, it reveals an Eldritch truth: the beasts are symptoms of contact with Great Ones (cosmic beings). The final bosses are not cursed nobles but alien infant gods. The game’s tagline could be: The Gothic was always already the Eldritch; you just hadn’t looked up.
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). Core Emotion: Terror (the anticipation of horror) and the sublime. Key Elements: the gothic and the eldritch pdf