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Lovecraft Meets Noir in Point-And-Click Detective Game ‘Obsidian Moon’ [Trailer]
Lost Cabinet Games is adding to your list of Lovecraftian adventure titles, this time mixing in a noir detective story with Obsidian Moon. Originally released on itch.io in an alpha build, Obsidian Moon is a text-based adventure set in the 1930s, mixing genre-bending clue mechanics while navigating a world where Lovecraftian horrors blend with ancient Minoan and Kawirian mysteries.
As Carter, a once-respected homicide detective haunted by grief and failure, you’ll be asked to solve a string of interconnected cases through logic, instinct, and the steady collapse of your own sanity. Armed with vintage forensics, gritty intuition, and limited amount of time, you’ll follow leads, interrogate suspects, and make choices that may bring you closer to the truth, or break you entirely.
“We wanted to build a detective game that gives players true investigative freedom, not just to solve the case, but to lose themselves in the process’’, explains Obsidian Moon Director, Yannis Antonakakis. ‘’The entire design is built around one question: what if all the clues were laid out in front of you, and the only thing standing between order and chaos was your mind?”
Echoing titles like Stacklands, Papers, Please, and Cultist Simulator, players will have 10 murder cases to solve that converge into a wider conspiracy. You must interrogate witnesses, run forensic reports, dig into criminal records, or go the route of using your magnum to extract a confession (which isn’t recommended). Throughout your playtime, you’ll juggling three narratives: track the crumbling psyche of Carter; the reactions of Chief O’Hara; and the naive wonder of your partner, “The Kid.”
Seeing as this is Lovecraft we’re talking about, you’ll need to choose between stability or spiraling. Every lead costs you time and money, and maybe your own mind. Obsidian Moon includes multiple game modes, including a Hardcore permadeath mode and immersive Noir black-and-white filter.
Obsidian Moon is available now to wishlist on Steam.
Path Games provided an update for its in-development underwater haunted house title Dark Mass, revealing that the game will receive a physical release for PlayStation 5 as both a Standard Edition and a Collector’s Edition. The reveal also coincides with a new trailer that delves into the gameplay.
Dark Mass sees players take on the role of Alice, a deep-sea explorer who, alongside her brother Reed, stumbles upon the wreckage of an ancient ship. But beneath the ship lies they discover a manor lost to time, eerily untouched despite spending centuries in the ocean.
Alice decides to venture inside, but she soon realises that something is watching from the darkness, bound to the manor by a dark curse. Trapped within the manor’s decaying halls, Alice must now uncover the manor’s tragic past, solve puzzles based on real historical torture rituals, and make decisions that will ultimately define her fate.
Both the Standard Edition and Collector’s Edition will be published by SelectaPlay, with the Collector’s Edition having been designed “for horror fans and collectors,” bringing together a selection of physical items inspired by Alice’s journey, the mystery of the sunken manor and the unsettling atmosphere of the abyss.
The Standard Edition includes a physical copy of the game, along with an illustrated manual. Meanwhile, the Collector’s Edition includes the physical copy and manual, along with the following:
- Collector’s Box
- Official Art Book
- Lenticular postcard
- Alice’s turtle bracelet
- Original Soundtrack in Digipack format
- Exclusive Steelbook
In addition to the PlayStation 5, Dark Mass will be coming to the Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. The game is currently aiming for a fall 2026 release.
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