Whilst Delta Green constitutes the apex of contemporary Lovecraftian conspiratorial gaming, GURPS Cybercthulhu was another, early attempt at transporting the Cthulhu mythos and Lovecaftian horror to a modern/near-future setting (whilst Cthulhupunk predates the original Delta Green sourcebook by a couple of years, Delta Green as a concept made its first appearance three years previous to Cthulhupunk in issue 7 of The Unspeakable Oath). Although cyberpunk these days is rather passe, in that we are pretty much living in the dystopian, corporate-run future it predicted, the Cthulhupunk setting does seem to have prefigured some of the ways in which later contributors to the Cthulhu mythos would imagine Lovecraftian horror being intertwined into the digital realm of that self-same dystopian-corporate modernity. As such this book remains, for me, an important early iteration of what would become the mythos’ oppressive futurity.
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