ACE Team and NACON, together with four genre experts, lift the veil on what makes The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu stand apart: a purely cooperative horror experience in which a group of explorers from the conquistador era must survive dread and madness. The game launches on July 15, 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
You and your companions stand on the deck of your galleon. El Capitán has handed you a contract: amass as much wealth as possible, track down a missing person, locate an ancient fort, and, with any luck, make it back in one piece from this treacherous expedition. The moment you step ashore at the edge of the jungle, an inexplicable sense of dread settles over you. Riches and mysteries lie waiting within those trees, but so do unspeakable entities that will make you wish you had never set foot in their domain.
At the start of each expedition in The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, players assemble a group of up to four explorers and select a contract to complete. Their objective is to gather treasures and chart new sections of the island. Speed matters, because the longer the expedition drags on, the greater and more lethal the creature threat becomes. Inventory space is tight, and the starting weapons nudge players toward evasion and defense rather than all-out aggression.
The second threat stalking these adventurers is the slow erosion of their sanity. Prolonged exposure to the cosmic horrors they encounter triggers escalating hallucinations: a companion may suddenly look like a monster, or a monster like a companion; an open field that seems safe turns out to be a deadly pit; bushes appear to stir with a will of their own; blood rains down without any warning. Should the explorers survive and make it back, El Capitán will be satisfied… though he already has fresh contracts lined up for them.
Drawing on H. P. Lovecraft‘s cosmic horror fiction, The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu challenges squads of two to four players to venture onto an uncharted continent in pursuit of a fabled city said to hold priceless treasures.
Source: NACON
