Team Firestorm has announced the release of its noir sleuthing game called Blood on the Thames. The “narrative rich” game sends players to a hand-drawn Victorian world packed with Lovecraftian horrors. The goal is to uncover a web of conspiracies. Developers have said that players should “prepare to embrace the macabre as you step into a city haunted by unknown horrors.”
To set the stage for the game, the development team released a launch trailer that provides a great look at the interesting and unusual art style.
Features include
- Uncover the Secrets of Victorian London – Quincy Ernest, the owner of a shipping company in London, is found dead, drowned in the river, and a spiral cut up his leg. Minerva “Mini” Ernest wakes up from a nightmare, much like she has most nights since her husband died a month ago. Detective William Usher has arrived, asking Mini to join him at the station. She is horrified to learn there has been another death, another crime, another body. Still reeling from this revelation, her beloved maid, Simone, collapses, coughing vile blood. Can Mini save the people closest to her from such a grisly demise?
- A Supernatural Murder Mystery – Take control of Mini in this supernatural point-and-click murder mystery. Help her explore Victorian London, from the alabaster mansions of high society to the coal-stained factories of the Industrial Revolution to the watery depths of the sewers beneath the city. Interrogate a vibrant cast, seeking clues, facts, and histories to be used to progress through puzzles and exploit contradictions in their statements to hunt down the truth. Gather evidence to unravel the mystery of not only your husband’s death but the many poor souls that have fallen to the machinations of Fate…
Check out the Blood on the Thames Steam page for further details.
