Well, unforturnately this is easily my least favorite of the three Steam-released games by Postmodern Adventures. I initially had played An English Haunting, which I enjoyed quite a bit. I then played their first Steam game - Nightmare Frames - and that one blew my mind. Easily one of the best adventure games I’d ever played.

Now comes along Dark Rites of Arkham, an explicitly Lovecraftian detective tale. I have never been a Lovecraft fan, the mythology does really nothing for me. And so, this game yet again proves how dull I find that kind of storytelling. The plot is overcomplicated, uninteresting, bland. I literally dozed off multiple times while playing and just couldn’t get myself to care about the story.

The puzzles are still good, though not as good as the first two games. There is a very large number of locations, and the art looks great. But this genre lives and dies by the interplay between storytelling and puzzles, and I just didn’t really feel invested at any point.

It pains me to say it, but I’m feeling a 2-3/10 for this one. Hopefully they abandon established mythology and return to their own unique stories, which I find way more interesting and captivating.