As you kill off hordes of enemies, you’ll start leveling up which lets you pick perks that last till the end of the level, such as a constant AoE radiation field around you, or an extra barrel on your guns, giving the game a slight bullet-hell feel. Each mission is started with Tesla at level 1, with a basic handgun (save for the first few seconds of mech) and no abilities or perks. Players can purchase permanent upgrades between missions, such as adding extra charges to abilities or extra time to the mech. The basics are extremely simple, but different mechanics have been well layered upon one another to give gameplay depth. You can pick one of two perks each time you level upĪs a twin stick shooter, Tesla vs Lovecraft has all the staples of the genre - flashy, colourful effects denoting different weapons, large hordes of bullet-fodder enemies and frantic running around. In an industry dominated by huge AAA titles with vast open worlds demanding around 100 hours to experience, this is actually quite refreshing. They are entirely self-contained, and this is a game you can just jump in to play for a few minutes whenever the time crops up. Each level can be completed in around 2-3 minutes, sometimes less, with only the boss battles lasting marginally longer. Levels are bite-sized chunks of the fictional town of Arkham, which often appeared in Lovecraft’s work, mixed with a few realistic elements, such as Tesla’s Wardenclyffe facility. There isn’t any actual story beyond what I outlined above, and even that only exists to provide an excuse for Tesla’s fictional superhero version to wipe out hordes Lovecraftian horrors - not that this is a bad thing, as an attempt to pump more narrative into a crazy premise like this would almost certainly backfire. While other games might try to ride on the silly premise alone with paper-thin gameplay, Tesla vs Lovecraft only ramps things up once you’re in control. Tesla leaps into action, using a mech and teleportation backpack among other things, to clean up the mess. Lovecraft, known most widely for the Cthulu mythos, interrupts him by calling eldritch demons into the world with the Necronomicon. The game’s name should be pretty good indication of what you’re getting into - when Nikola Tesla is just about to provide free, unlimited wireless energy to everyone, fiction writer H. Tesla vs Lovecraft is that particular breed of game which is utterly silly, and benefits from it.
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