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Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet cover art

Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet

Infogrames · Atari · 2015-11-04

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Mar 25, 1993 (DOS), Jul 21, 2015 (Linux), Mar 03, 1995 (PC-9800 Series), Jul 21, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You'll take on the role of John T. Carter, a brilliant young astronomer, piecing together the puzzling history of the village and its cryptic inhabitants. Incredibly realistic action and supernatural chaos intertwine to draw players deep into the puzzling mysteries within the Shadow of the Comet.

77%
positive of 114 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (21 ratings)
5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)
Shadow of the Comet is an adventure game developed and released by Infogrames in 1993. The game is based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and uses many elements from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A follow-up game, Prisoner of Ice, was released in 1995 and does not directly follow the events of this game.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 19,732 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 114 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at GOG (2026-06-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

GoreHorrorViolentAdventureLovecraftianPoint & ClickPixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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