LAST EDITED ON Aug-25-15 AT 01:25 PM (EDT)
 
> Cargo Steamship of Cthulhu, The RPG

You're not wrong, but I feel that there's a fundamental note of optimism in the setting that makes it ... not nearly as bleak as Lovecraft himself. I mean, there's never any suggestion that people can't comprehend the deeper mysteries, or that it will necessarily drive you mad, only that it might if you're not careful. (Or it might just set your hair on fire.) The most existentially terrifying thing in the setting is the Dawn Machine, which was created by humans. And under Nuncio you find a couple paragraphs of text that might be the most elegant and moving expression of hope in the face of cosmic indifference I've ever seen.