Wash this space. Updated on 14 April 2021
Stylish first-person adventure Call of the Sea will come to PlayStation 4 and PS5 next month.
The game s Twitter confirmed the May release last night, some five months after the game first launched for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, including via Xbox Game Pass.
A mix of 1930s action and HP Lovecraft weirdness, Call of the Sea follows adventurer Norah Everhart as she travels to a mysterious island in search of her missing husband Harry. A dazzlingly different debut with a haunting sense of place and adventure, Bertie wrote of the game, recommending it in Eurogamer s Call of the Sea review. A bigger game would never be this weird. A bigger game would never tell a story of love and self-discovery in this way, and do it without resorting to violence, and, though it pains me to say it, tell it about a woman.
It isn t a descent into madness, it s a rise to sanity.
Interview by Robert Purchese, Senior Staff Writer Updated on 17 March 2021
Call of the Sea was one of my favourite games of 2020. Even when I think about it now, I feel warmer. Partly that s to do with the literal warmth of the tropical island setting, but I think more of it is to do with the gentle nature of the game. It s a game without combat, a game about puzzles. A game with an eerie mystery pulling you farther in. It s an adventure played at walking speed, both metaphorically and literally. And I relish that. I relish an adventure I can sink into like a comfy armchair each evening, one that doesn t rough me up and shake me around before I sleep. I wish more games were like it.
A scene from Call of the Sea. (Raw Fury)
Published January 30. 2021 12:01AM
Christopher Byrd, The Washington Post Call of the Sea
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There is a moment late in Call of the Sea where Norah Everhart, the game s heroine, is walking through an otherworldly temple adorned with murals depicting ritual sacrifice. This place is like a labyrinth, she says aloud, then, looking at one of the murals she gasps, They were submerged in black ichor! I giggled to myself when I heard those words because they seemed to perfectly sum up the pulpy tenor of this game which wears its affinity for H.P. Lovecraft and weird, early 20th-century fiction like a flower on a lapel.
By CHRISTOPHER BYRD | Special to The Washington Post | Published: January 22, 2021 There is a moment late in Call of the Sea where Norah Everhart, the game s heroine, is walking through an otherworldly temple adorned with murals depicting ritual sacrifice. This place is like a labyrinth, she says aloud, then, looking at one of the murals she gasps, They were submerged in black ichor! I giggled to myself when I heard those words because they seemed to perfectly sum up the pulpy tenor of this game which wears its affinity for H.P. Lovecraft and weird, early twentieth-century fiction like a flower on a lapel.