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The story is a thinly veiled screed against miscegenation where the populace of Innsmouth have, in exchange for wealth, interbred with deep ones-think The Creature from the Black Lagoon-and now resemble half-people half-fish hybrids. The Esoteric Order of Dagon is a cult from his short story The Shadow over Innsmouth. ItвЂ™s a simple choice on the surface, but itвЂ™s also a reversal of classic Lovecraft tropes.

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At the end of the case, I could either protect the ex-husband and help him diminish the OrderвЂ™s power or kill the unrepentant bigot and let Anna keep giving out free food. HeвЂ™s poisoning people because he thinks her adopted religion-the Esoteric Order of Dagon-is bad for Oakmont and that a few deaths will scare people away from the free fish and proselytizing. My investigation found the poisoner-AnnaвЂ™s jilted ex-husband, bitter Anna left him and joined a strange church. Anna will help, but only after Reed finds out whoвЂ™s been poisoning the fish her church gives out to hungry people, for free, on the streets of Oakmont. It doesnвЂ™t always work, but when it does, The Sinking City is the best video game adaptation of LovecraftвЂ™s work IвЂ™ve seen to date.ДЄn early case has Reed asking Anna, a local religious and political leader, for information.

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LovecraftвЂ™s work is full of thinly veiled metaphors and outright bigotry and The Sinking City uses his racist and xenophobic anxieties as the raw material for a video game about facing existentially dread and the (often racist and xenophobic) evil people do to each other. Most video games avoid the topic of LovecraftвЂ™s racism, The Sinking City tackles it head on. And he wasnвЂ™t shy about sharing that opinion. His profound ignorance of any group that wasnвЂ™t straight, white, and male caused him to be terrified to the point of hate. The Old Ones and Elder Gods, those incomprehensible space deities of LovecraftвЂ™s mythos, are absent or indifferent. ThereвЂ™s no good or evil in The Sinking City, only competing interests and agendas. ThereвЂ™s no justice system at work, the police arenвЂ™t coming to help you, and the truth often doesnвЂ™t matter. Lovecraft, then forces you to make judgement calls based on your investigation. It asks you to solve mysteries in a world based on the works of H. Charles Reed is the gameвЂ™s protagonist, a WWI veteran and Navy diver who survived the Great War only to come home plagued by strange visions.

The Sinking City is an open-world detective game from developer Frogwares. Enter into this mess a private detective whoвЂ™s come to town looking for answers to the strange visions that keep him from getting a good nightвЂ™s sleep.

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