

Writing for TouchArcade, Jared Nelson called it "an absolutely fantastic top-down shooter" and 10tons's best game, despite some issues with the iOS controls. Harry Slater of Pocket Gamer called the iOS version a "wonderfully violent and perfectly challenging shooter". The Android version launched on May 2, 2019.

The iOS version launched on October 25, 2018. The PlayStation 4 version was released on Mathe Xbox One and Nintendo Switch versions were released three days later. Tesla vs Lovecraft was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux on January 26, 2018. Dying allows players to choose different perks, and they are reset when moving on to a new level. Killing large numbers of monsters allows players to select perks, which grant special abilities during all fights on that level.

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Players can upgrade Tesla's weaponry as they find items, up to a mecha, and power-ups grant him brief advantages. Players take the role of Tesla as he fights the monsters, initially armed with conventional arms and a teleporter. Lovecraft steals all of Tesla's inventions and uses them to open a dimensional gateway for the monsters described in his fiction. Tesla ignores Lovecraft's warnings, only to find that Lovecraft has become possessed by Cthulhu. Lovecraft interrupts a demonstration of Nikola Tesla's newest invention. Players control Nikola Tesla as he attempts to stop H. Tesla vs Lovecraft is a twin-stick shooter video game developed and published by Finnish studio 10tons.
