If you're reading H.P. Lovecraft stories, odds are you're an insomniac bored late at night with nothing else to do. Video game playing operates the same way.
Late at night is when nostalgia often kicks in, too. This explains why there's now a a computer game based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story that channels everything unimpressive about video games from the 1980s.
"The Rats in the Walls" is one of the better known horror stories Lovecraft made, which was published in 1924. The website itch.io celebrates various forms of art as it comes into the public domain every year, allowing people to use previously popular works of art freely in new forms. This is how we get an old-timey looking computer game, made by Alex Blechman.
In it, you don't play the protagonist Delapore (an American who buys a tired ancestral home in England), you play the rats in the walls that are slowly driving him insane.
The game (and story) is about as action-packed as an assisted-living community after 10pm on a Tuesday. If you loved playing The Legend of Zelda thirty years ago, then you'll probably hyperventilate playing this.
But what else are you going to do when insomnia kicks in?
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