Cthulhu Chronicles unexpectedly dropped on iTunes today: a mobile app, produced by MetaArcade in conjunction with Chaosium, which allows you to play through a number of solitaire scenarios with pre-generated characters using what appears to be a pared-down verson of the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition rules engine.
The app is (ostensibly) free, providing the first five of nine scenaris which together form an introductory campaign for the game, and allowing you three attempts per day to play through a story/scenario; alternatively, you can purchase a chapter/scenario for about £2.00 which rovides unlimited play (I have just purchased the first chapter of the campaign: a version of the free solitaire scenario Alone Against the Flames which Chaosium made available with the release of the 7th edition rules). What is not clear is whether you can save games when you are, say, midway through a scenario. In any case, I will be trialling this over the coming week to see how it stands up as a solitaire Call of Cthulhu experience.
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