A case file in Veins of Arkham says the body was drained through the ankle
Hand-drawn 1930s rooms, a ransacked store and a headstone with a famous name: this Lovecraft detective game is built around reading the evidence.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The best thing in the screenshots for Cthulhu Mysteries: Veins of Arkham has no tentacles in it. It is a typed case file headed U.S. Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Arkham City, for a 52-year-old man called Louis Doyle, dated April 6th, 1931, and on the right-hand page somebody has written in careful copperplate that the body was drained through the ankle. That is the title explained by a clerk. The rest of the file is just as tidy about being horrible: a store locked from the outside, nothing stolen, a hook in the ceiling with a rope, bleach marks around the body. The store...