I have no idea what led the developers at Frogwares to come up with the idea for Magrunner: Dark Pulse, a first-person puzzler that blends high-tech sci-fi gameplay with the interdimensional horrors of the Cthulhu mythos, but I have happy news for gamers who were hopeful that it would live up to its promise: it's not perfect, but it's pretty good stuff.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is described as a "first-person action puzzle game set in the near future," in which a high-tech "friendly competition" between giant corporations descends into a battle for survival, and for the fate of the entire world. How? That's not entirely clear, but somehow the bright, clean world of the future is pulled into the bizarre and dangerous parallel universe of the dreaded Cthulhu, and it becomes your job to pull it back out.