Call of the Sea: The Everhart Expedition is written by Carlos Ferrer, author of successful Lovecraftian adventures, and will allow you to experience the story before the events of the videogame from a different perspective: what if Norah Everhart had joined her husband's expedition from the beginning?
March 25th 2025, Spain - Call of the Sea and Call of Cthulhu are about to join forces. On the 22nd of April, Call of the Sea: The Everhart Expedition will be launched on Backerkit. It’s an official campaign for the quintessential Lovecraftian RPG, Call of Cthulhu, which serves as a prequel/alternate history to the award-winning Call of the Sea video game. It will be released simultaneously in English and Spanish.The project is the result of a partnership between Out of the Blue Games, the acclaimed studio behind the successful video games Call of the Sea, American Arcadia and the upcoming The Vigilante Diaries; and Shadowlands, the publisher behind for such Call of Cthulhu supplements as Piel de Toro and Scions of the Dark Goddess, and who recently broke records with the roleplaying adaptation of Terraforming Mars, one of the world's most-played board games.
Call of the Sea: The Everhart Expedition will allow players to explore the prequel story from a different perspective: What would have happened if Norah Everhart had joined her husband Harry's expedition instead of following in his footsteps as she did in the original Call of the Sea? Players take on the roles of Norah, Harry, and the other members of the expedition, and the freedom of role-playing allows each group to find their own answers to this question. Yes, we will eventually reach a strange Pacific island east of Otaheite, full of mysteries, dangers, and secrets that not everyone will survive. But it will be your choices, smarts, and luck that will determine what happens in the end. There will be links and easter-eggs between Call of the Sea and its predecessor, but it is not necessary to have played the original game to enjoy the upcoming role-playing campaign.
The author of Call of the Sea: The Everhart Expedition is Carlos Ferrer Peñaranda, a creator with solid experience in Lovecraftian adventures such as La mirada hueca (The Hollow Look) and El receptáculo del terror (The Receptacle of Terror), and an award-winning author of the game Tierras Quebradas (Broken Lands).
A starter adventure, On Hostile Shores, will soon be available for free download, allowing you to visit a certain Pacific island before the events of the Everhart expedition. It will also be an opportunity to take a look at the art, layout, and gameplay approach that you will find in the full campaign.
Call of the Sea, the original video game, has won the ING Award for Best Xbox Exclusive Game in 2020 and has been nominated at the BAFTAs for Best Debut Game, among other awards and mentions at GameKult, Hobby Consolas, DeVuego (winner in 7 categories!), Zapping Awards, and many others. It is a game of adventure, exploration, and puzzles, with an unique look at the Lovecraftian mythos that you will be able to enjoy now in the form of a role-playing campaign.
Anyone wishing to keep up to date with the project can subscribe via Backerkit, and follow Out of the Blue on Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, Facebook and LinkedIn, or Shadowlands on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky.
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About Out of the Blue Games
Out of the Blue was founded in 2019 by Tatiana Delgado and Manuel Fernández-Truchaud. The studio is composed of veteran game developers based in Spain, Greece, and Brazil. They have individually worked on titles like Red Matter, Metroid Samus Returns, Metroid Dread, Deadlight, GYLT or RiME. Sharing a collective vision that brought them together, their mission is to create engaging stories with vivid environments, drawing the player in and enabling them to explore the world around them with a sense of wonder.
After the launch of their first title - the BAFTA nominee Call of the Sea-, and its virtual reality version Call of the Sea VR for Meta Quest, the studio launched American Arcadia in 2023. They’re currently developing The Vigilante Diaries, the first title of their narrative anthology An Out of the Blue Story.
Out of the Blue was founded in 2019 by Tatiana Delgado and Manuel Fernández-Truchaud. The studio is composed of veteran game developers based in Spain, Greece, and Brazil. They have individually worked on titles like Red Matter, Metroid Samus Returns, Metroid Dread, Deadlight, GYLT or RiME. Sharing a collective vision that brought them together, their mission is to create engaging stories with vivid environments, drawing the player in and enabling them to explore the world around them with a sense of wonder.
After the launch of their first title - the BAFTA nominee Call of the Sea-, and its virtual reality version Call of the Sea VR for Meta Quest, the studio launched American Arcadia in 2023. They’re currently developing The Vigilante Diaries, the first title of their narrative anthology An Out of the Blue Story.