Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype

Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype

Darktree Game Studio · January 15, 2022 · Lovecraftian, Psychological Horror, Horror, Shooter, Post-apocalyptic

Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

PC
Mostly Positive72% · 150
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Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype price

Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype

✦ AI summary

Dive into a mysterious underwater world collecting ancient coins while evading deadly monsters that spawn unpredictably in every playthrough. Scavenge dead bodies for supplies, manage your inventory, and discover the secret to escape this dangerous abyss where danger lurks around every corner.

Objectives: Collect Ancient Coins and Find a Way to Open the Exit Mouse - Interact

W A S D - Move

Shift - Switch Run and Walk

Tab - inventory / Show and Hide Cursor

  • Unique Underwater World- Dive Deep to Discover an Unknown Underwater World that No One‘s Been There Before...
  • Danger is in Everywhere - Monsters will randomly cause big troubles and put you in extreme danger. You must hide or run before they find you...
  • Items Respawn Randomly - Every time the situation is different, try your best to collect coins as many as possible...
  • Interactive Dead Body - Dig! Dig! Dig! You may find something in dead bodies by using knives... in the beta version, you can use knives as many times as you can.

Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 16, 2026
putting a screen covering damage feedback on getting hit with gas right before a death pit two minutes in your game is kinda dickish dude, especially since were all trained to run through deadly gas so we dont get hurt by it makin the chances even higher of falling in the pit and also you just finished giving us the tutorial message how to run. i just feel like youre playing games with my heart, bruh. makes me sad.
Recommended Nov 14, 2025
Игра 'Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype' - это захватывающий опыт, погружающий в атмосферу лавкрафтовского ужаса, даже несмотря на её прототипный статус. Визуально игра выполнена минималистично, но это лишь подчеркивает гнетущую атмосферу безысходности. Звуковое сопровождение, состоящее из тревожных эмбиентов и жутких звуковых эффектов, эффективно держит в напряжении, предвещая надвигающийся кошмар. Геймплей представляет собой смесь квеста и стелса. Игроку предстоит исследовать мрачные локации, решать головоломки, и, главное, избегать встречи с невыразимыми ужасами, населяющими этот мир. Ограниченные ресурсы и постоянная угроза смерти заставляют принимать обдуманные решения, каждое из которых может оказаться последним. Несмотря на то, что это лишь прототип, игра уже демонстрирует большой потенциал. Не хватает более подробных объяснений некоторых механик и большей вариативности в решении загадок. Однако, даже в текущем виде, 'Cthulhu: Death Escape' дарит незабываемый опыт для поклонников творчества Лавкрафта и жанра хоррор. С нетерпением жду финальную версию!
Recommended Sep 17, 2025
8/10
Recommended Jun 6, 2025
i learned something about myself and human heads
Not recommended May 14, 2025
"Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Remnants of R'lyeh". Remnants of R'lyeh is a Chinese asset flip looking first person adventure as once more amateur developers exhume the corpse of HP Lovecraft in an attempt to abuse and worsen his legacy with another godawful fan-fiction. Given this advertisement is three years old, it seems highly unlikely the developers are going ahead with stealing HP Lovecrafts works and making some kind of asset flip looking thing out of them. Good. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Remnants of R'lyeh, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Cthulhu: Death Escape / 克苏鲁:死亡逃脱 Prototype" too. Usually the purpose of these …
Not recommended Apr 18, 2025
Short but I didnt really enjoy it as much as I'd hoped.

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