10 Worst Video Game Boss Battles Of 2018

Had Cyanide Studios’ Call of Cthulhu been developed twenty years earlier, it likely would have been a point-and-click puzzle game. However, since that particular genre hasn’t been popular since Lucasarts gave up on it back in the late 1990’s, Cyanide had to settle for a gimped version of the Penumbra games.

That’s not to say that Call of Cthulhu is a bad title, it just feels like it doesn’t quite know what kind of game it wants to be. The first third of the game, for example, is comprised entirely of dialogue trees and light puzzles until it suddenly hits the player with an out-of-left-field boss fight.

Not only does the game not communicate how the boss is to be beaten, it doesn’t even state that the Shambler can’t be attacked directly at all. Instead, players have to stealth around a shadowy art gallery in search of a very specific dagger which—for some unexplained reason—can be used to destroy the painting through which the horror entered our world.

The resulting fight is a desperate case of trial and error as Edward Peirce stumbles to get his hands on the correct weapon without getting eaten by a Lovecraftian horror in the process.