There are multiple problems that players will run into if they try to take this game seriously. This is a comedy, and an incredibly silly one that wears a Lovecraft skin. This is not a horror narrative in the vein of Lovecraft‘s unique cosmic, psychological terror. This was such an incongruent shift in tone – an unsuccessful attempt at bathos – that it really sums up what the game’s going for.
When Dahlia shows you a photograph of her daughter, Tabitha, the camera zooms in on the child’s face with dramatic music, and the detective character you play as comments on the strange appearance of the child. While I found the writing and characters to be cliché, it was soon clear that these clichés were being used for comical effect. The first character introduced to you is Dahlia Marsh, the game’s femme fatale who asks you to find her missing daughter. The Innsmouth Case begins with the exact same scenario as 2018’s Call of Cthulhu: you are an alcoholic and failing private investigator slumped in your office, when a case walks in the door and prompts you to go to a secluded coastal town where (most likely) the residents are members of an Ancient One-worshipping cult. Source: Screen capture – Conor Smith Narrative and Tone While my text adventure experience is limited, having played Zork once or twice through another popular game, I was interested as a literature student and writer in how the merging of reading and gaming would be executed. Yet here comes The Innsmouth Case, a seemingly original take on the Lovecraft formula by placing its narrative within the text adventure structure, where the story is tailored to your choices. While some still remember the 2005 cult classic, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, we’ve also received the detective titles Call of Cthulhu and The Sinking City alongside the recent film adaptation starring Nicolas Cage, Color Out of Space. Lovecraft, known for his Cthulhu mythos and unique underwater cosmic horror, has enjoyed a resurgence of interest and adaptations in recent memory.
The Innsmouth Case, developed by RobotPumpkin Games, is a text adventure game based on the works of H.
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