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Play The Innsmouth Case the right way, and you’ve got a couple of hours of delightfully twisted play here. It’s the best way to get to areas like a twisted brothel and a spa-day gone wrong, among others, and you’d be ignoring the best parts of the game if you missed them. So, step into a walkthrough, get part of the way through unlocking the achievement, and enjoy its consequences. We wouldn’t normally advocate this way of playing, but the achievements are a map to the best parts of the game, and it’s not inherently obvious how you would get there otherwise. In fact, one of the best ways to play The Innsmouth Case is to open a walkthrough and chase its achievements. Again, you need to come in prepared for that eventuality, and The Innsmouth Case does a terrible job of preparing you for it.

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These are a series of skits and punchlines, rather than anything with substance. The shortness of The Innsmouth Case means that you’re never really getting to know a character, or wrangling with an objective for long. It’s such a strange (and hard-to-find) needle in Innsmouth’s haystack. Finding an Arcade in Innsmouth and watching the entirety of a game’s intro sequence is the ONLY way to unlock roughly a third of the game’s content.

We ARE going to give spoilers here, as it’s hugely frustrating and unsatisfying to find, so skip to the next para if you don’t want to know. It’s not helped that the game’s structure is effectively an hourglass, and you have to find a particularly strange sequence of events to unlock the final-third of the game. The solution is limp, and none of its related endings are particularly good (it’s almost like the makers of The Innsmouth Case were more enamoured by other parts of the game). If you want to actually solve the missing-person case at the heart of The Innsmouth Case, for example, offered to you by a femme-fatale called Dalia in the opening sections of the game, then you’re going to be unsatisfied. The Innsmouth Case feels more like a toybox of things to do, rather than a full-blown story, and that has an impact. One of the ‘good endings’ might stretch to fifteen minutes at a push, and that’s only if you tease out every conversation tree. From the beginning to one of its endings – along one of its windiest of paths – you only have ten minutes of gameplay here. That wouldn’t be possible without the constant agency it puts in your hands, as you can react to each situation in outlandish ways, just to see how the citizens of Innsmouth react.Īs you might expect from a game that offers so much choice, The Innsmouth Case is extremely short (as the crow flies). But you can join in with tentacle orgies, interstellar body-swaps and some sexual shenanigans with grannies (Innsmouth seems to have a fetish in this area), which are all as unexpected as they are fabulous. That might be a surprise to Lovecraft fans, as he wasn’t often the cheerful sort. It’s where The Innsmouth Case flourishes: the game is filthy, and relishes putting you in situations that are 18-rated and – frankly – hilarious. It releases the pressure of finding ‘the correct’ path through the game, and you can just enjoy all of the weird and wonderful endings at play here. Scribble that down: it’s essential.īut once you understand that The Innsmouth Case is a spiderweb with a spider at almost every corner, you can find some joy. We spent far too long bashing our heads against a series of dead ends like a bee against a window, when all we needed to do was find another chapter and start from there. You can bug out of the game at any point and return to a title screen where you can hop to any location.

The other key to enjoying The Innsmouth Case is also not tutorialised. Once you’ve got your head around this model, you can start finding scraps of enjoyment as you fill out your Death Book.

Sometimes, EVERY option will lead to death. You will die and die lots in The Innsmouth Case, and it will often be arbitrary. It doesn’t make this clear from the start – it doesn’t teach you a few vital things, to be fair, which we’ll mention later – but it’s imperative that you get in the mindset. You’re given so much choice, because The Innsmouth Case wants you to fill up a collection of endings. And so we come back to the opening caveat.

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