#Lust from beyond full#

Following this comes a narrative full of mixed messages, needlessly over brutalised themes and uninspiring twists and turns. Wanting to understand the root of both these visions and his being a nasty, unworthy partner to his girlfriend Lily, he takes her advice and seeks out a sexual therapist in the distant town of Bleakmoor for help. That’s a scene that happens and is barely touched on. Also, he rapes his girlfriend in an early scene of the game. It seems old Victor has more baggage than the deleted web browser history and sexual paraphernalia he hides in cupboard drawers. This other world? It’s plagued with deeply lecherous imagery, be it phallic alien flora or cave openings zealously detailed to resemble vaginas. In-game, players take the control of Victor Holloway, an antiquarian that suffers from sex addiction and sees visions of another world that’s Lovecraftian in nature. Tripping and stumbling into a sex cult hell

Reader discretion is advised from here onwards.* *Lust From Beyond is an incredibly explicit game, pretty much all for worse. Actually, frankly, the biggest thing it needs is to never be released at all. Finishing my time with the game, the biggest thing it needs is a lot more subtlety. Though, only in an edgy way that is never explored all that well. It’s clear the game is marketing itself as a sexually liberal and horrific affair. Before long, blood is consumed and the room erupts into a messy, sweaty orgy with little left to the imagination. You start the game by ripping a Lovecraftian alien spawn from a monstrous, graphically detailed womb, and soon offer that very offspring up to fellow cult members for a ritual. Right from the get-go, Lust from Beyond doesn’t pull any punches.

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