The Lovecraftian Thing a Day (2018) No.216: Cthulhu Mash

Cthulhu Mash is one of the odder items in my gaming collection, not least because it is an ugly beast with artwork which looks like the product of an artistically-talented, Lovecraft-obsessed twelve year old child let loose on a box of  colour pencils.

In brief, Cthulhu Mash is an attempt to replicate classic Doom-style first-person shooter video games in a tabletop format, but with a Cthulhu/Lovecraftian skin. I played it once about six or seven years ago, and recall it being rather fiddly; as a consequence, I’m not sure why - other than its solitaire playability - it remains in my collection - perhaps, to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, Cthulhu Mash falls within that curious liminal zone of being too weird to keep, yet too unique to throw in the bin...