Shadow of the Comet

Shadow of the Comet
Developer(s)Infogrames
Publisher(s)
Director(s)
  • French video game director Edit this on Wikidata
Artist(s)
  • Yaël Barroz Edit this on Wikidata
Composer(s)
  • Philippe Vachey Edit this on Wikidata
Platform(s)MS-DOS, PC-98, Linux
ReleaseMarch 25, 1993[1]
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Shadow of the Comet (later repackaged as Call of Cthulhu: 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.

Shadow of the Comet: The Official Strategy Guide (Prima Publishing, 1994; re-released by the author, 2019) was written by Steve Schwartz. In addition to a game walkthrough, all game dialog, and a disk of saved games, the book includes the Lovecraft story The Call of Cthulhu.

  1. ^ "PC Zone Magazine". PC Zone. No. 1. April 1993. p. 8. Retrieved July 3, 2017.