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The Innsmouth Case
Developer RobotPumpkin Games
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way. From the Steam store page
131 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
72 positive · 55 negative
95% range 48–65%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
133 of 207 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 131 · most liked firstLet me start by saying that I love novels. Whilst the environment, and cast, are getting described, I feel like it still leaves enough room for the reader to use their own imagination. After all, it's an entirely different experience than a movie, as it implements the thoughts of the main character as well. In this case, The Innsmouth Case happened to catch my interest as it's a "choose-your-own-adventure" game, presented in a novel-like style. I found the premise interesting and always wanted…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →video review: https://youtu.be/eNbF5V3roYE written review: The Innsmouth Case is a choose your own adventure game that focuses on you surviving a single day at Innsmouth, rather than actually solving a case. It took me several tries to figure out that the game ends abruptly when you survive an encounter rather than continuing on for you to actually try to solve a case. You pick options and can reload any chapter that you've reached. That's the gameplay. Pros: - Once you realise that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/37276396/]For The Love of Lovecraft Curator Choose Your Own Insani...Adventure!!!!! The Innsmouth Case is a story book game set up in a choose your own adventure style. You play as a detective who is tasked if you so choose to search for a child in the strange town of Innsmouth. There are nods to the lovecraftian mythos everywhere sprinkled throughout but this game chooses to take a far less serious tone than the writings it is based off of.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The Innsmouth Case" is a lovingly designed text adventure game in the style of H.P. Lovecraft. The player is sent to the small harbor town of Innsmouth with the task to find a missing girl, free to decide what to do next. Every action has consequences, some are of good nature, some can lead to very bad story developments. The animated drawings, background music and sound effects in the individual scenarios lightened up the reading. The completely out-of-place and dry humor of the main…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have never seen writing this poor in a game. The "humour" is stuff like 'you dash at the speed normally reserved for eating chocolate cake'. The whole thing is an insult to Lovecraft.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I would have played the game after buying it, because I`m to late for a refund now. If you are expecting a moody detective adventure or something in that direction, you are wrong here, Its a comedy and not a good one. It kills the mood on the first page and doesn`t get better, But humor is subjective, Maybe it is what you are looking for. There are positive reviews after all. But try the demo or play it in the refund window to be sure.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall, no, mostly for that opening disclaimer. If you're going to find a person from the past "problematic" enough that you have to start by disavowing him, then don't seek to profit using his IP. Either let people form their own value judgments on the work, or avoid it--the least you can do is not simultaneously promote it while trashing the creator. Beyond that, the game is okay. Decent Choose Your Own Adventure with legitimately branching paths. The writing is okay--often obnoxiously…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sitting in my fusty office, smoking a Cigarette, i `m dreaming of a live without problems and much, much Money. It is all about the Money. If you have Money, you have Power and if you have Power, you have Women and if….. Somebodys knocking and getting me out of my dreams. A Client? „Come in.“ I heard myself saying. The door opens and a Lady in an elegant dark Dress that emphasize her female Attraction. „Please, i need your help.“ She said with a warm Voice, while she softly smokes her…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is simply not good if you are in the market for a decent game inspired by the works of Lovecraft. It fails at comedy and fails miserably to combine horror and comedy. This is because the "comedy" consists mostly of toilet humor and other childish crap that completely ruins any attempt to convey cosmic horror. Stay far far away from this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A dark, mysterious tale told so well as to have chills running down your spine? No! This is a Lovecraftian tale rewritten by amateurs, whose attempts at interjecting comedy into the game is cringeworthy at best. Make no mistake about it, we are talking Amy Schumer levels of bad comedy here. It is hard to become immersed in a Lovecraftian game when the investigator is like "Durr, the client won't let me claim back money for in-app purchases". The only scary thing about this game is that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →H.P. Lovecraft with a comedic twist. Multiple endings to be found, some straight forward some not as easy to find. All in all an enjoyable text based adventure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I kind of enjoyed playing this game for some time, I will give it a thumbs down for being completely misleading. "A desperate mother, a missing girl and a mystical place - a case could hardly be more challenging." - Spoilers: You get none of those things. There's not even a criminal case to solve here, even though the demo of the game heavily implies it. Instead you get: - a funny parody of a horrorgame a la Scary Movie, Fantastic Movie, Superhero Movie etc. If you enjoy movies like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is nothing really lovecraftian in this game. It is a horror-parody-choose-your-own-adventure that namedrops Lovecraft a lot, but doesnt actually understand or care for the source material. It is basically stringing together random horror scenarios and spoofs them. The writing is not bad and sometimes actually funny, but the use of references to Lovecraft's stories here is superficial at best and false advertising at worst. If you removed them it would'nt really affect the game. If you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First text of the game: "We believe in the diversity and inclusion" .... Why is this always precedes to atrocious writing?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oof. I wanted to like this, but I just can't get into it. It's a tired rehash of Shadow Over Innsmouth, but the twist this time is that it takes place in modern day and that it's a wacky comedy. Just how wacky is it? In the first scene, you puke in your desk. The first person you meet in Innsmouth is named Poopingplace." There's a lot of toilet humor, way too many sex scenes, and just… nonsense. At one point I got kidnapped and was about to be burned at the stake, but a tourist passerby thought…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/]Like this Review? Follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more! The Innsmouth Case ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Innsmouth case is a brilliant new visual novel with a strong taste of Lovecraftian mixed into it. Built as a simple visual novel with multiple endings and a ton of options, the game did it’s part just right. Right from the get-go, it’s pretty obvious what to expect from a game like this. A strong well-scripted storyline with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very short game - I've already gotten 3 endings. Let me expound some on my problems with this game from a narrative perspective: 1) The game has some serious problems with whether or not it wants to be a serious or a parody, and it flip-flops so frequently that it ends up not being very effective at either (though admittedly, it is a more effective at comedy than horror). 2) A side effect of this is that characterization is all over the place. 3) There is a character named…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is sold as taking place in the H.P. Lovecraft "universe." The game begins by then denigrating the name of H.P. Lovecraft. If you're too woke to stand the author, don't use his name to sell the product, and don't write something in his creation's universe.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The writing is lazy, the humor is lacking, and the horror is the fact that I paid for it. I am a Steam Curator - if you like my reviews (or even if you don't), you can join my group here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42458001-Phantom-Space-Reviews/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall no for the opening disclaimer. As soon as the disclaimer declared Lovecraft "problematic" I tuned out. On the one hand calling him 'problematic' and the other looking to profit from his creation.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BUYERS BEWARE It's a parody full of cringey humor, typos and sex seemingly written by a tumblr user.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is at best a Lovecraft-parody, just not a good one. It is not funny or interesting. The ytried to put as much different backgrounds in this as possibly, getting not one right. If you are a fan of the Cthulhu-Mythos: Stay away!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately, I can't recommend this one. The game starts out with a note from the developers saying they are aware of HP Lovecraft's problematic views and want to distance themselves from that, but they don't actually follow through. The game starts out immediately with some pretty unpleasant objectification of a female character and general sexism, and continues with humor that seems to want to be "edgy" but is actually just offensive and comes across as juvenile. They even left in some of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not up to the premise. I've tried over and over to progress through the story, making different choices, exploring various paths, yet the game keeps pushing me back into the same already explored scenarios. It's frustrating to feel like, no matter what I choose, progress is minimal and unclear. There's no real sense of direction, and often it's impossible to tell which decision will actually lead to something new. If you're a Lovecraft fan, this becomes even worse. Instead of honoring *The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Comedic Lovecraft is very hard to pull of, The only game that managed to do, that I remember, is the point and click game Gibbous, that one was great. This one? This is a chose your own adventure style game, and while it does have a lot of paths and endings, and the art is fine. There is also a fairly robust system to quickly get back to a branching path. But it fails spectacular with the one thing a visual novel/adventure book needs. it reads a little too much like it was written by a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No case to solve (despite the pretext of the beginning) just survive a day in Innsmouth choose your own adventure style with very little in the way of choices at all. It falls between horror and comedy in such a way as to be neither so its got no real choices no horror and is not funny.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a pretty fun "Choose Your Own Adventure" style game. It's a little more comical than Cosmic Horror tends to be, and the amount of comedy caught me off guard, but I quite enjoyed the overall experience. The game is well written and keeps true to the Lovecratian lore of Innsmouth while including a modern take/approach (if you play the arcade games, keep the opening rolling!). I've played nearly three hours and gotten close to half the trophies and endings. I've done every choice with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Who is this game for? Too silly for adults. Too vague for children. This game wears the skin of Lovecraft simply to sell...but like a lame joke, this could be plug and play for really any idea...which makes it lazy and superficial. Pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Lovecraft, Choose Your Own Adventure games and silly humour. I should love this game, right? Unfortunately after seeing all the endings and most of the game I can confidently say that this game is just not it. Sense of humour is subjective, but I feel like this game tries too hard and fails. It fails as a comedy and it fails as a horror. It's shame - the modern spin on Dagon is a cool idea.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a simple gamebook-style game, but somehow the art seems silly and inappropriate for the theme to me, so I refunded.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Choose your own adventure with an HP Lovecraft twist. Meet the incredibly weird residents of Innsmouth and solve the mystery. The writing is solid. The art is excellent. The soundtrack contributes perfectly to the humorous horror tone. Definitely check out the demo and then pick up the game! https://youtu.be/wJt9NU0G9t4
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: 4/10 I enjoyed the demo enough to buy this and at first this game was ok. But my god it was tedious by the end, and I regret ever picking it up. The concept's ok and the story is fine, but it never really took me in after the first run through. And I had to do a lot of run throughs to get anywhere. This is where I found a few problems with this as a VN (Visual Novel) game. The main one being there's no manual save, the game autosaves at check points. Yes you can go back to chapters in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Innsmouth Case is not a game, it's a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". To answer that question: When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just a ok game. A few chuckles, but really short
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your game is 100% written word. Learn to write.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> creators make a game using the materials of a racist author, making money off the work of a man who died poor, alone, from untreated intestinal cancer, sure that he would end up forgotten by history just as he was beginning to recant his views. > proceeds to denounce the author while using his materials to make a visual novel, tying themselves to this person they find objectionable rather than making their own works, showing their lack of imagination, their hypocrisy, and revealing the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the premise but the execution leaves a bit to be desired. I finally gave up on it when I reached yet another passage of text that didn't flow from prior ones. There was even a passage that incorrectly attributed a vehicle to me though I didn't have one. It wasn't my car the paint dripped onto the windshield of. Needs to get better QA involved in the development.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Given the nature of the gameplay and presentation, the game's success or failure entirely depends on how well written it is. And I just found The Innsmouth Case to be poorly written. It didn't engage me at all with the story or characters, and it is way overwritten in the sense of always choosing to use 50 words to say something that better writers would have expressed in 10. So it's not telling an engrossing story, and it's doing it with way more words than necessary -- just not worth…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 riddled with dumb jokes that kind of kill the mood. jokes that i would enjoy in other games, but not a story based adventure that im trying to get invested into.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The humour is a welcome twist that worked for me but apparently didnt land for everyone, likely not the more serious Lovecraft devotees but the the casual folks who some exposure there are just enough references to the source material Writing and gaming references are top notch, the game is too short for the asking price but something longer (the game essentially has two "chapters" only but a lot of local variations to find) in the same style and humour but proper adventure game length in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played two rounds of this already and love it so much. Will play more and maybe edit the review but so far I can say - The whole art style is very cute and has these very fluid motions that are delightful to watch - Same for the whole UI, it's well-designed - The story is rich and so far one of my endings has been a typical poor performance on my part (without spoiling anything) and the other just completely wild. I was actually at the edge of my seat. - Game hasn't crashed and I can alt-tab…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →first impressions after about half an hour of play: + hilarious and ridiculous. great writing. + nice art and general look. - minor typo in chapter 2 where it says "to" when it's supposed to say "too." not sure if typos will be more prevalent elsewhere. - Lonny doesn't have a Hawaiian shirt even though he is described as having one in the prose. that was slightly jarring. overall, very much enjoying it and will update my review as I proceed further in the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edit: After playing this for some more I feel that I have to change my review. Before it was more of a "mixed bag - thumbs sideways", now I have to give this a clear thumbs up. There are indeed very many ways that your adventure can take a totally unexpected and new turn every time you play it (of course you have to go different routes) Its not only Lovecrafts Innsmouth you will see. I had a blast and feel I got my moneys worth indeed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun visual novel where you play a hapless private detective caricature hired to find a missing child in Innsmouth. The expected trouble soon ensues, and your methods of handling said trouble lead you to a surprising amount of possible endings. It's frequently deliberately silly, which I enjoyed, but if you're looking for po-faced horror this is not your game. I'm not sure I've gotten all 27 endings, but it's been fun trying. It's best in small doses over a longer period of time since, like most…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is this game? "The Innsmouth Case" is a choose your own adventure, visual novel, semi-horror game. The game follows the story of a private detective who visits the weird fishing town of Innsmouth, and has to deal with increasingly weirder and eldritch occult ordeals. The main goal of the game is to find a girl called "Thabita" whilst trying to not get killed by the town's very aggressive residents. Price/replay value Horrible - Bad - Decent - Good - Amazing Achievement hunting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Who. Wrote. This? This is like some early teens homework being shared in class by an awkward kid. It is uninteresting combined with modern audience tropes (read: boring). It's like if Disney decided to go dark, but still Disney. No thanks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am pretty torn on this one. I usually really enjoy lovecraftian / mystery stories and also the "choose your own adventure" aspect, but somehow this just doesn't hit the spot for me. I often feel like the story goes nowhere and the options for you to choose are just sometimes all not that appealing. Like, you think of a solution, and it is not even closely an option. The concept is cool, but idk, I tried to come back several times, but it just feels a bit cheap and boring, just not engaging…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →jogo estilo livro-aventura, sem narração e com um sistema de save confuso, perdendo muito progresso. o jogo é bem curto e mesmo tendo várias referências lovecraftianas e um teor até sexual em algumas interações, a história não engrena. descartável.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Innsmouth Case is a choose your own text adventure game developed by RobotPumpkin Games and published by Assemble Entertainment. The creators were inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s works and decided to incorporate some of the elements into The Innsmouth Case to bring together a scary comedic adventure. In The Innsmouth Case, you play as a private investigator hired by Dahlia Marsh to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Tabitha. With that, you venture to Innsmouth, a place full of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok where to start... I got this game a few years ago with a few other indie Lovecraftian horror games, thinking there could be hidden, underrated jewels amongst them. Nope. I was dead wrong. This is a steaming pile of garbage which feels like it was written by Chatgpt after being told to write a pulp Lovecraftian story which is full of unfunny humour and random events or smt. The game starts by calling out Lovecraft's racist personality for some reason and apologises for his "problematic"…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cringe distortion of Lovecraft concept, lame jokes
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/0bpe-LMMVNE Understanding the source content well enough to poke fun at it and make meaning fully jokes within the writing is refreshing take.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a text game, so be prepared to read a lot :) The plot is well-written and fun. You can talk to many different characters, each with their own personality. Some of them are exaggeratedly weird, but this creates the ironic atmosphere of this game. After you open locations on the map, you can return to them from the main menu at any time. This is very handy if you want to get all possible endings and achievements. Some reviewers mentioned that the game doesn't fit their expectations of what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first I wasn't entirely sure if I liked this game or not because it wasn't what I expected, especially after finding a weird ending, but after playing it more, I really enjoy it, I've spent a few hours on it and am trying to get all of the achievements. The art style is very cool and while I do wish there was a bit less reading and more actual gameplay, it's still a good game. I like pick your own adventure style games and this one has tons of different routes and options. I enjoy H.P.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Lovecraftian Choose Your Own Adventure that uses a good deal of comedy to create interesting and memorable story paths as well as make the suspense and horror parts hit all the harder when they appear. Worth the price as the story, music, writing, and visuals all do good job of drawing you into this strange silly but suitably dark world while the many different paths mean there is a plenty to explore, discover, and experience. If you're still unsure after seeing the trailers, screenshots, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This games story reminds alot of the horror film Slither, but with Lovecraft sea gods instead of alien slugs. In the positive, it's suprisingly entertaining with lots of shock humour, interesting characters, and the multiple endings and options allow for great re-playablility In the negative, it is very offensive and some of the jokes are down-right insulting, plus it's a little expensive for a game with a short run time. The horror aspect is also very down-played and the story can get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"We understand the problematic beliefs of H P Lovecraft"? Wtf? What a parody is this, the statement and the game...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply, one of the worst games I've ever played.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whoever wrote this should never write anything else ever again. That's it, that's the review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not into H.P. Lovecraft or am familiar with it, so more of the sexual humours didn't land for me and most of the ending I've seen so far wasn't solving the case with most of them being entirely random and weird, from hooking up with sea people or living the life of another being in another dimension. If anyone is a fan of Lovecraftian or just like playing through multiple endings like having a one-night stand with the 'mom' of the daughter you were assigned to find, then this is the game…
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