{"id":321254,"date":"2025-10-17T22:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:55:47","slug":"lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s Untold Stories 2 Enters Early Access In October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>2019\u2019s Lovecraft\u2019s Untold Stories, the action roguelite based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/the-sinking-city\/macabre-tales-and-mediocre-gameplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">works<\/a> of H.P. Lovecraft, is getting a sequel, and it\u2019s heading to Steam Early Access this October. Untold Stories 2 builds upon the foundation of its predecessor with a revamped art direction and the addition of multiplayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like the first game, you\u2019ll have access to multiple characters used to battle across worlds based on Lovecraft\u2019s stories. You can choose between six characters this time, three of which will be playable during the Early Access period, to play alone or with up to three partners in the new online co-op. The Medium, the Veteran, and the Alienist join the game while the Detective, Witch, and Professor make a return. Each character sports its own perks and abilities to allow plenty of variety in how to slaughter the cosmic horrors that await.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/08\/16\/lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To up your chances of survival, you\u2019ll craft increasingly better clothing and weapons by finding blueprints and materials. You\u2019ll also improve your character with good old-fashioned leveling up. This is an RPG, after all. Untold Stories 2\u2019s most noticeable change is the shift from pixel art to a more hand-drawn aesthetic. The plot appears to surround the madness-inducing \u201cDream Landscape\u201d painting created by artist Ardois-Bonnot, a fictional painter that appears in <em>The Call of Cthulhu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To get on the ground floor of Untold Stories 2\u2019s development, you can pick up the game when it launches in Steam Early Access on October 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Lovecraft fan looking for more games that heavily steeped in his works, 2019\u2019s The Sinking City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/02\/18\/the-sinking-city-hits-playstation-5-tomorrow-with-visual-upgrades\">made the jump to PS5<\/a> earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If comments are still showing as disabled, a site update is happening on our side that has caused a temporary takedown. We hope to have them back up and running soon so our community can go back to sharing their thoughts with us about everything gaming-related!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/08\/16\/lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019\u2019s Lovecraft\u2019s Untold Stories, the action roguelite based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, is getting a sequel, and it\u2019s heading to Steam Early Access this October. Untold Stories 2 builds upon the foundation of its predecessor with a revamped art direction and the addition of multiplayer.\u00a0 Like the first game, you\u2019ll have access to multiple characters used to battle across worlds based on Lovecraft\u2019s stories. You can choose between six characters this time, three of which will be playable during the Early Access period, to play alone or with up to three partners in the new online co-op. The Medium, the Veteran, and the Alienist join the game while the Detective, Witch, and Professor make a return. Each character sports its own perks and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lovecrafts-untold-stories-2-enters-early-access-in-october\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lovecraft&#039;s Untold Stories 2 Enters Early Access In October | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2019\u2019s Lovecraft\u2019s Untold Stories, the action roguelite based on the works of H.P. 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