Shadow of the Comet

Shadow of the Comet
DeveloperInfogrames
Publishers
Director
  • Norbert Cellier 
Artist
  • Yaël Barroz 
Composer
  • Philippe Vachey 
PlatformsMS-DOS, PC-98, Linux
ReleaseMarch 25, 1993
GenreAdventure
ModeSingle-player

Shadow of the Comet (later repackaged as Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet) is an adventure game developed and released by Infogrames in 1993. The game is based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and uses many elements from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A follow-up game, Prisoner of Ice, was released in 1995 and does not directly follow the events of this game.

Shadow of the Comet: The Official Strategy Guide (Prima Publishing, 1994; re-released by the author, 2019) was written by Steve Schwartz. In addition to a game walkthrough, all game dialog, and a disk of saved games, the book includes the Lovecraft story The Call of Cthulhu.