The Mobile Gamer

Tesla vs Lovecraft is a twin stick shooter, which means you have one stick for movement and one for shooting. You look at the levels from top-down view, that means above your head, which is common for this kind of games.

You will play as Nikola Tesla, genius inventor who uses different types of weapons, interesting gadgets and even his mech to battle the eldritch abominations made by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the man who invented cosmic horror genre and is famous because the name he gave to his favourite cat.

As you progress through the game you get to various places all over Arkham and its surroundings, including university, parks, cemetary and even the Mountains of Madness (which in the book are in Antarctica but it’s still a cool easter egg).

The game costs aproximately 12€ at google play, may vary with conversions to other currencies.

PROS

• no microtransactions or ads
• endless survival mode
• 3 difficulties adding replay value
• gamepad support
• lots of weapons and gadgets

CONS

• gamepad prompts have wrong labels (ability is activated by L2/LT but the game says it’s pressing right stick)
• difficulty is a bit high during the first levels after tutorial
• works well on android 11 but google play won’t let you download because it’s mad for older devices