Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Here's one for those of you that enjoy an odd little bit of indie storytelling: Blood on the Thames is a"murder mystery puzzle game with visual novel elements in a Gothic, Lovecraftian world." In it, your sleuth must solve a supernatural murder in a Victorian London still reeling from the Jack the Ripper murders.
The occult overtones of the story quickly take a cosmic twist, overtly bringing in the influence of Lovecraft-style cosmic horror and a gothic milieu that I found pretty compelling conceptually. Most of all is the strange, scratchy black-and-white aesthetic of the entire game and the oddities that abound in it—so many handwritten or oddly-typed notes and weird little statues and interface elements that seem more to be of the world you're inside than of a videogame. It's cool stuff.
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