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.