Manganika Studio’s trailer for Cosmic Séance looks awesome, and the concept is sound. At its core, this visually rich adventure is about choices. You have to carefully select your questions, and the beast’s answer may well test your sanity! Getting a response is only the beginning. Making sense of it is where the challenge lies.
This Victorian-era narrative investigation game trades twitch reflexes for psychological mystery. Some players will like this idea, and for others, accept the concept for it it is and admire the art design. When some illustrations remind me of the graphic novel Young Lovecraft, the concepts are certainly familiar. Even the design of the entities may challenge fans of H.P. Lovecraft’s works to correctly identify!
For instance, that three-eyed head immediately made me think of Hastur, even though the game never identifies the first entity as such.