Quick Takes: The Innsmouth Case

I was looking for something light and frothy in the Switch eShop’s list of new games that they thought I might like. I only glanced briefly at “The Innsmouth Case”, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style text adventurer set in the Lovecraft mythos, and then went past it to look at more graphically intensive games. But I kept thinking about it. The writing in the screenshots given was pretty funny. The trailer advertised twenty seven different endings. The characters looked to be a huge and wacky departure from the grim madness of unimproved Lovecraft. It was cheap. I took a chance. ...

January 3, 2021 · 2 min · 289 words · Tipa