Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - Explained

Hello everyone, and welcome to a video where we look at a game from 2005. This is the story from Headfirst Studio's Cthulhu Mythos game, Dark Corners of the Earth. Based loosely on HP Lovecraft's Novella 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth', and the Tapletop Game 'Escape From Innsmouth', this game was rich with Cthlhu mythos, and Lovecraftian Lore.
CHAPTERS:
Intro - 0:00
Prologue - 1:10
Innsmouth - 4:37
Marsh Refinery - 22:58
Order of Dagon - 26:19
SS Cutter Urania - 28:38
City of the Deep Ones - 30:27
Ending Explained - 34:15
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ALL MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO FROM @epidemicsound
ALL GAME FOOTAGE CAPTURED BY MYSELF ON PC (GOG)
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[@SamuraiMujuru]

Minor correction: Cthulhu is not an Elder Thing. Elder Things are the creatures that lives at the south pole and created shoggoths (see At the Mountains of Madness)

[@GamingHarryYT]

Darn it haha. I got confused with Great Old Ones! Good spot. Thanks!

[@SamuraiMujuru]

Hey man, you're not calling everything Elder Gods, which puts you leaps and bounds above most as is. 😆 (For anyone curious, Outer God: Core entities like Azathoth and such Elder God: Gods of humanity and the dreamlands like Nodens, Bast, etc. Great Old Ones: Godlike beings that usually serve the outer gods. Cthulhu, Hastur, Ithaqua, etc)

[@Night-Rider101]

​@@SamuraiMujurunerd lmao

[@SamuraiMujuru]

@nightrider7357 hey now, I resemble that remark!

[@The_Stoned_Sage]

@@Night-Rider101i bet youre a nerd in somethin too😂

[@Kvakva]

The part with the "mother" locked up always pissed me off. Jack should not been THAT DAFT

[@GamingHarryYT]

Oh yeah, Jack was a proper smoothbrain

[@markgregory2746]

Is it not part of cosmocism to be intrigued by things we can't understand? Our natural curiosity as humans is that of intrigue in these stories.

[@BestCupid]

My personal headcannon is with Jack dying he actually jumped back to the Yithian body and the main reasoning was due to his current human body was too psychological/physically damaged from dealing with everything in Innsmouth. Tbh wish we couldve actually witnessed what happens next with this story since even as jank the game is, the story was interesting as hell

[@GameFuMaster]

yeah, honestly so many games end up being bad/terrible games, while the story is actually incredibly good.

[@burakardaaksoy6339]

I also thought the same thing, glad Im not alone

[@yeayea8226]

There was gonna be a sequel where you play as jack daughter who uses magic

[@callummcgilvray4946]

Damn Harry, i never thought id see you cover this! Flawed but underrated gem

[@GamingHarryYT]

I loved this back in the day. I’m gutted I hadn’t completed it before

[@AC-hj9tv]

​@@GamingHarryYTyou're a wizard, Harry

Fun story I have with this game, for years my family didn't have the money to update our computer to make it run properly. It took a long time until we (my brother, two friends and myself), could play the game. And then we found out about the infamous crash that the game had at the end. Years later we got the extended ending, it took like some "serious gaming mode", playing like 3 days straight, swapping keyboard between friends until we got the ending. I really would have like a sequel for the game. But it just wasn't meant to be.

[@jamespaul6315]

The chase sequence in the hotel was heart pounding. Great ending too

[@neurohack9038]

Lots of memories of this game. I got it the day it came out, saved up money for it in high school. The part where you’re picked up from the sea onto a ship? There was a game breaking bug that would freeze the game after a certain doorway. Somebody on GameFAQs figured out if you walked *backwards* through the area that you could continue to play and skip the bug.

[@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge]

I beat it legitimately exactly once? On my first ever playthrough, and even expecting the bug since I heard everyone talk about it.

[@danielbergeron6667]

Best part of the game was the scene you unlock like 4 bolts to open a door. See a star spawn in the room. He just shuts and locks that right back and moves on with his day.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

This, "Eternal Darkness", and a beautiful gem called "Odin Sphere", are 3 of my very favorite videogames.

[@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

The mind swapping thing at the end is from another novella called "The Shadow Out of Time" and it's even crazier there - they swap places not only through space, but through time as well, to collect knowledge from every race and every era

[@indyman_123]

I read through the works of Lovecraft for the very first time quite recently and enjoyed most of them. "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was one of my favs. The atmosphere of the city, the eeriness, the people, the vibe, everything was so well written. Really surprised that the game stuck to the original works in many ways ("betwixt", "the Innsmouth look", the hotel sequence, arriving by the bus, Zadok Allen, etc.). And as always, Harry is on point to decode the whole thing pretty nicely.

[@Krzemieniewski1]

Shadow over Innsmouth, In the mountains of madness and Whispering in the dark. Holly trio of H.P. Lovecraft ❤️

[@antemiuenteri]

@@Krzemieniewski1 color out of space is just as good although with less "mythology" but incredibly atmospheric.

[@ryanedwards7487]

I bought this game the day it came out. It was absolutely fantastic.

[@GamingHarryYT]

Couldn't agree more!

[@nintendhole9444]

There are so many names, places, events and characters from so many actual Lovecraft stories in this! It's like some creepy amalgamation of a lot of his more popular stories and entries. This game seems very cool I'd love to play this!

[@omadalosso]

Loved your videos! Awesome to see that you are going back to these relatively "old" games

[@GamingHarryYT]

Glad you like them!

[@omadalosso]

@@GamingHarryYT Do we have plans for the sinking city?

[@GamingHarryYT]

Yeah at some point. Working through a backlog of games at the moment. But I can confirm that it’s on the list!

[@dantauche7917]

Would love to see Sinking City!

[@just_ellie_7422]

You made my day by covering this old gem. To this day it's one of the best if not the best Cthulhu games out there in my humble opinion (which is probably heavily influenced by nostalgia that I have for this game).

[@hotpeppermovie]

Man I LOVED this game back then when Robbaz played it. Happy to see you cover this game!

[@julij2063]

Fun fact: the madman in the jail next to Burnham is actually Henry, the police officer we meet in the beginning of the game.

[@mister93547]

Can you do the sinking city, id love to see you do that game in your style of explanation. great video, great series, love your work

[@randomyoutuber0524]

He posted about this game two weeks ago :)

[@jaewoowestside2829]

Awesome video, would love you to explain the game "fear and hunger"

[@atherasia]

Glad to see creators starts make fun of their own obligatory alert signs. That's a sign of a channel growing.

[@justedits95]

Ooooh new video! Literally the only channel I get excited for😅

[@Thready_Kruller]

This video is a one for all time. Kudos are in order for this one. Very entertaining and insightful.

[@misschris325]

I remember renting this title at Blockbuster Video. I had no idea what it was based off of, but the dark and mysterious cover intrigued me. I didn't get far and had to return it early, but I had a major a-ha moment once I became a fan and delved into all things Lovecraft ❤❤❤

[@arlem525]

Thank you for this. It's the most thorough explanation of this game that I have ever seen.

[@mcbr9127]

Honestly love these more unknown games, they always seem to have a great storyline

[@sameerrana9377]

Thank u for all the videos you make. I love them

[@damiancook3351]

Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any better, you post another video. Great day today

[@garrosh1228]

Nice video as alwayss. I love deep sea and lovecraftian horror stuff like Dredge aswell. It would be awesome to see if you would do a Lore and order on Barotrauma which is another great sea game, there is alot of lore hidden in it and i would love to see your take on it.

[@tamimmaiq3745]

Love your videos dude keep up the good work...

[@birthingpod8200]

OMG Harry you got me stoked on this one

[@TalhaFaisal1]

Can you also do the 2018 version please!!!!!!

[@nickgreene9456]

Oh dude I love this game thanks for making a video about it

[@Khigha87]

I have not and desire not to play any of the games you cover, but these videos slap so hard!!!

[@matthewmcshane399]

To quote a great horror movie reviewer: Hello, and welcome to HP Lovecraft Month.

[@donaldcampbell9219]

This was great, Harry.

[@hitman2adrian]

Hey Harry, recently subscribed to the channel and so far all lore and order videos been amazing and I hope this keep going. Quick question for you, are planning a video for “Cry of fear” ?

[@user-ok8yo7fs8q]

May you have the blessing for the work, you've done

[@stephenblackman9462]

Wowzers I did not realise how old this game was gosh dang, I thought it was like 2010 onwards but no 5 years before that. Was a beautiful game & story to go with it

[@thatguyspoon]

harry you make my day

[@DinoFights_JWE2]

Always enjoy these! 🙂

[@officedullard8722]

Super cool game. I also love how these entities were so easily felled by human weapons. Dagon and Hydra got their asses kicked.

[@RIGman0497]

I remember being stuck on the coast guard ship level due to a bug where the sights of the cannon wouldn't zoom to the reef to show the mages creating the waves so you can eliminate them. Idk how to fix it, but I'm glad the indicators around the scope actually work and you can still take them out by reading the indicators.

[@jonathancampbell7798]

Clever use of different lovecraft stories combined into one game

[@weirdautumn]

Game of my childhood. I loved it so much

[@ActionQuackson]

Thanks for the video!

[@skeletonking4119]

Oh one final thing! Thank you for explain it! Even though I play it personally but I have not fully understood it! Thank you

[@MrThefrederic]

I remember playing this and following along with 1up podcast as they played way back in the day. Good memories. This game is flawed but it definitely managed to create an amazing atmosphere.

[@Tony-ih1pg]

Loved that game! I played it on release, loved it.

[@ferrievanvliet8043]

Man, I'll be honest. This is pretty much one of the better game(s) based of the Cthulhu mythology, wish the studios didn't shut down though. Watching this makes my itch for those type of games to return, I might play a few of them. Have you covered The Sinking City? I also enjoyed the other ''call of cthulhu'' game.

[@GamingHarryYT]

Not yet. But it's on the list

[@ferrievanvliet8043]

@@GamingHarryYT Looking forward to it. Just like all of your videos xD

[@bobkane5054]

Love this channel

[@elifriedman8812]

Please do a Lore & Order video for the recent Call of Cthulu game. I would love to see that one explained

[@user-sy2mu1vs4x]

I just love to come home from work and watch some game explained, still waiting for dead space explanation😂☺️

[@TuringIncomplete1]

0:39 The game shown here appears to be Reign of Cthulhu (which uses the ruleset from the cooperative board game called Pandemic) instead of the TTRPG mentioned in the voiceover. This is still a great video and game summary!

[@uninhibition31]

This game was my jam back in the day. I couldn't finish it on PC because of the bugs but I had a good time.

[@chrisb4131]

Man, I was hoping you would cover this one. Nothing but the goodest of janky goodness in this game.

[@GamingHarryYT]

SO MUCH JANK.

[@jiltedarts]

Been waiting for this video....

[@-redacted_by_youtube]

Absolutely loved this game.

[@blivinalien3227]

Here after watching "The Sinking city" ✋️

[@benjaminaltube8731]

Bro flipped so hard at the start he was sent to the Batman universe

[@octagonseventynine1253]

Always loved this game. First played it on PC back in 05 or 06.

[@ilkinshafiyev2314]

One of my favourite games!

[@TheFruitofTruth]

I really hope you’ll do the sinking city I played that game so much but felt like I needed a lore video to learn more but I have yet to find anyone who makes one

[@ThatLampTho]

Unrelated but the weirdest complaint i've seen in the early days of plot summary videos was of one person getting mad that no one seems to be able to tell the full story without spoiling anything. To this day i still can't tell if he was serious or not 😂

[@Discombobulate453]

Those type of people shouldn’t be allowed on the internet

[@DanielPerez-hh5sy]

I absolutely love this game. Even with the PC glitch at the sea sorcerers.... I remember playing it for the first time at my friends house with his og Xbox, he was completely terrified by the game, so i had to play it for him lmao. Later I got it for PC, with all the glitches... Still played it over and over.

[@alexdawson2738]

I love this game and to this day (in my opinion) has one of the best chase scenes in a video game.

[@EyelessEntity]

Most people who had a terrible experience with this bug seem to have played it on console. I had the PC version and replayed it several times and never encountered a bug or crash. The graphics were subpar even for its time, but the atmosphere, story, and unique mechanics were what drew you in. From the lack of a HUD & target reticle, the way sanity and physical damage worked mechanically and visually where extremely inspiring and a bit ahead of the time. It wasn't perfect, but it didn't exist in other games back then, and frankly, pretty much no other game since has bothered to explore the same mechanics but with a more modern approach.

[@Mr5oren]

Loved this game! Sad that they didn’t make more😢

[@Listening_Books12345]

So I have a hard time finding the Yithians frightening, other than scale, because I'd seen Futurama before ever seeing a depiction of the aliens from the story and it turns out Futurama used a visual throwaway joke as a shape shifting alien in one episode briefly turns into a Yithian, and in that context it was pretty goofy looking. And that's why Futurama is better than most things humanity has ever produced. I love that this game also allows you to lock the room door in the inn, and perhaps even choose not to lock it? Never played it, but it's a great touch from the story, since the protag doesn't realize the whole town is against him and he locks his door as an after thought...only to wake up in the night as someone tries opening his room door 😱. Legit scariest moment in the story!

[@AbsolAhm]

Oh heyy I was looking for this

[@Nishaa]

Hope to see a video on both Call of cthulhu from 2018 and the sinking city :D

[@vinizzle7000]

I'd love to see a deadly premonition video, that game is all kinds of goofy and fun

[@TheOrdomalleus666]

One of my very favorites. This game scared the bejeezus of me so many times. I couldn't pass the hotel escape scene for months. It really needs a remaster and some improvements. Lovely gem. Too bad it didn't age too well.

[@AlexOvTheAbyss]

I still feel that this game had one of the most tense scenes when escaping the hotel

[@chadblack4096]

Hi Harry, I hope all is well. I was wondering if you were going to cover the new update to the Mortuary Assistant

[@abdullahirfan9991]

You came for Harry's incredible work of explaining an underrated masterpiece. I came due to my PTSD from the jankyness of the game (also because harry uploaded a video) *We are not the same* (also I'm pretty sure Cthulhu isn't an elder thing but is instead a great old one like hastur, who serve the outer gods which include azathoth and crawling chaos. Could be wrong btw, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry in advance)

[@hanchiman]

In the cancelled sequel, Jack diary play a big part in the game as it set in modern day from the look of the short trailer of the game. But from the synopsis it about a guy who found Jack diary.

[@Srjorm]

Harry do more Cthulhu games :3

[@mantovanimattia]

it deserves a remaster/remake , was such a good concept with some very innovative features and very good music, plus the aim sistem was not that bad,

[@berniekatzroy]

Always thought this was an underrated game base on the cthulu mythos

[@Erwinter09]

The hotel room chase sequence in this game is anxiety fuel.

[@tomleary508]

I never got past the cannon segment. I had the fun glitch which made the priests I think invisible.

[@rebornstillborn]

Underrated game. So much of what they did would be awesome with todays tech.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

When I was playing this game and reached the end of it, man I was thinking of the ending a long time. I love this Game even with all the issues it got🙂🙂

[@plumshy5558]

I have fever dreams about this game, because I never recall finishing it only that I played it

[@lucre113]

10 seconds in and I’m crying 😂 DABABY in yellow. Gotta go watch that one. DualipanDABABY

[@Ryan_McGee]

Look at the game, The Shore. It seems like an interesting Lovecraft game. I've seen the game online and it seems to have a good amount of story and lore.

[@sandeeptyagi5774]

This is one of my most favorite atmospheric horror games of all the times together with Alien isolation (the creepiest masterpiece ever made). Call of Cthulhu surely had it its share of game breaking bugs, budgetary problems during development but despite these this game is a masterpiece (a flawed masterpiece). I played it back in 2012 and now played in 2023 and I had one hell of a time. Great story and expectational atmosphere. If any game that seriously needs a remake- That is Call of Cthulhu-DCTOE.

[@eldenbleach]

Do sinking city next please

[@heroicbannana8605]

Never liked the fact that Jack died in the end, dude killed armies of monsters, then proceeded to kill both Dagon and Hydra. He was an absolute badass, and if I was in his shoes I'd probably work on ways to fight more of those things. Because he is proof that it can be done, humanity can not only survive, but fight back and win.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

But jack was half fish himself

[@austin9187]

I hope you do the other call of cthulhu game and the sinking city 🤔😎

[@T-51_]

I would love to hear you do a story recap of call of Cthulhu 2018 game and the sinking city

[@mohammadsinan7537]

Finally a classic

[@lenanicolevance]

Ive been watching a lot of Game Explaining for 2 months. I did try looking for one particular game Get Even, it a awesome game and I've played for a couple times. I was was wondering if you could do Get Even Explained? If you have done it or maybe I over looked, let me know. If not can please do that one?

[@Jackstalkerfear]

One of my fave games from back in the day, to bad I cannot get this to run on my modern PC

[@heretyk_1337]

Ah the memories of pre- Amnesia "insanity points" and my brother and me getting scared shitless as monster approached... good times

[@PrinceBoo21]

What's the name of the song that starts playing at the Cutter Urania section around 28:40? I've been looking for that exact song for a while, and I looked through a fair amount of the epidemicsound horror selection, but I can't find it EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. It's called Scared of Water by Kikoru

[@oJaymey]

damn this is an extremely cool game for its time and after watching this i really want to go and play it hopefully its on an emulator or something. the whole mind swap thing towards the end really caught me off guard but then it is a cthulhu game and something like that should be expected. this is a really great video thank you

[@GamingHarryYT]

It’s on GOG. But you’ll need a fan patch to get past the ending section, which is real easy to install and use

[@camerons339]

It’s also on steam- it was only a dollar during the summer sale

[@camerons339]

There are some bugs though and the GOG version is apparently better for that reason… worst bug was crashing when pushing bookcases, but it’s an audio bug that can be fixed by nudging the bookcase forward by tapping w instead of holding w

[@oJaymey]

That’s great to hear thank you

[@oJaymey]

@@camerons339 ah ok I’ll have a look into it thank you

[@demetriusmccray1574]

Good for you, making this vid man. I love it. I warn you though, love craft fans are some of the most insufferable people ever and they’ll correct your comma placement if they can hear it switched in a quote. Best of luck brother

[@GamingHarryYT]

Don’t worry. I’m used to it. I get corrected on everything. Not hyphenating certain words. Pronouncing a word wrong. ‘Selling out’ for getting a sponsor on a video. It’s like being back at school again 😂

[@tarynblake1861]

Have you done the Fatal Frame game series? I'm sorry if you have and I'm just not seeing them. Those damn things are the only horror game series that freak me out. My best friend has to come over and play them with me best I'm too scared to do so alone.

[@debrabarber3483]

The Baby in Yellow? Haven't heard of it but I will give it a try. It sounds hilarious 😂😂

[@skytrigger]

Did you stop using the Lore&Order intro? If so, that's a bummer, always like that melodic intro. Whether the visuals where outdated or not, I sort of always looked forward to that melodic intro. :D It gave off that feeling when you want to sit down, get comfy to get ready reading/listening a cool story.

[@GamingHarryYT]

I still use it, but this video isn’t a Lore & Order video, hence, no intro. It’ll be there again for the next Lore & Order video, which is coming very soon.

[@skytrigger]

@@GamingHarryYT Veeeeeeery excited to watch another episode! It took me a while, but L&R videos are flagged with the "Story explained" instead of other videos usually being only "Explained". Is that assumption correct? Otherwise I am having a hard time tracking what video is a L&O video.

[@GamingHarryYT]

That is correct. If it’s a L&O video, it’ll be titled Story Explained.