Utterly Mad

Ok, you are right, my mind got messed up there. Does seem like something Gnarly would do, ****ing with humans like that.
Hmmmm
Lovecraft us interesting, in that he very rarely described anything in much detail, so there is room for interpretation. Shoggoths could be scary if not given a proper shape like a lit of games do, and simply being a sliding black mass. Deepones.... Need a bit of work. They are scarier for what they do than what they are.

If we were to include Shoggoths, I'd want them to be big and in a almost pitch black area of the game. It'll make them look formless and massive (as they should be), but if we were to include smaller ones, we should make an algorithm that randomly places whats described on the Shoggoth's "base".

Same with Deepones. The monsters should be have "silhouettes" as closer inspection of them would be dangerous. Also I think including some brutal deaths might help in this regard [IE: Being absorbed and dissolved in a Shoggoth, Deepone ripping you limb from limb then dragging your corpse off, maybe have a cutscene if you get "killed" by a cultist, showing you getting sacrificed or being converted into their ways].


But I mostly want to shy away from Cthulhu, his presence should be unexpected or so subtle that you barely even notice him; every time a game introduces Cthulhu or brings him in, it ends up floundering and fucking up badly.

Also in true Lovecraftian/Poe fashion, there won't be a good ending where you kill all the old ones and live a normal life. You either will go insane and take your own life, or go insane and embrace the lore by the end of it; or go insane and stick around in the dungeon for the rest of your life trying to survive against impossible odds. Also I'm thinking about having the Old Ones being nearly impossible to beat, or maybe having an alliance system; where you can swear fealty to a Old One, and get some perks out of it. But that may be a bad idea, or a genius idea; because either way the Old One of your choosing would be working through you or simply just use you until they decide that you have to go.