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Loretta

Released: Feb 16, 2023

Genres:

Point-and-click Puzzle Role-playing (RPG)

Themes:

Drama Historical Indie Thriller

Perspectives:

Side view

Game Modes:

Single player

Game Engines:

GameMaker

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Description from Steam STEAM

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s. Choose dialogue, interact with objects and decide the depths to which Loretta's depravity spirals while navigating a nightmare of her own creation. Story Loretta is a housewife. Her husband Walter is a writer. Dragged from the glitz and glamour of New York City and thrust into a dilapidated farmhouse in the rural south, both are unsuccessful, struggling with their finances and their relationship. But when Loretta learns of her husband’s infidelity and a remarkably lucrative life insurance policy filed in his name, a grisly plan begins to take root. It is up to the player to decide how far she will follow it. Features Decide whether Loretta's story remains a web of deceit or crescendos into bloody murder through dialogue and discovery. Conceptually inspired by film noir, the art of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper, as well as the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Philip Ridley, Stephen King and Vladimir Nabokov. Solve cryptic puzzles to dive deeper into Loretta's imperfect past and discover the levels of desperation she feels to reclaim control of her life. Whose side will you take in this story without heroes? Branching paths and multiple endings allow for a custom experience or opportunity for replay. Choose Loretta’s fate and explore the multiple opportunities as they present themselves to her.

Description from IGDB IGDB

Loretta is a psychological thriller that would make the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes and would lead her through a self-crafted nightmare. This story is about a woman, dealing with betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, relationship problems and the difficult social situation of the 1940s. Conceptually and aesthetically, the game is inspired by the American art of the twentieth century, the works of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper, film noir of the 40s to 50s, thrillers by Alfred Hitchcock, the Philip Ridley movie The Reflecting Skin, the books 1922 by Stephen King and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Storyline IGDB

The year is 1947. Lora and Walter Harris move to a farm, which used to belong to his parents. Walter is a writer and Lora is a housewife. Both are quite unsuccessful. The family is going through financial difficulties. The situation is also complicated by the fact that Walter owes money to people from New York. And although the husband keeps it a secret from his wife, Lora has a suspicion. Moreover, she suspects him of cheating. Lora understands that she gave up her job, her dreams and other opportunities for her failure of a husband she doesn’t even love. Now she is stuck in a cold empty house barely making ends meet. As she struggles to make loan payments, she finds out that Walter’s publishing house has insured his life. In the event of his death, the insurance sum would be 30.000$. A plan is born in Lora’s mind.

About Loretta

Loretta is a Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG) game released in 2023 developed by Yakov Butuzoff that offers Single player gameplay from a side view perspective playable on Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 with 8 user ratings averaging 79.7/100. The game explores themes like Drama, Historical, Indie. If you enjoy Loretta, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: February 16, 2023

IGDB Rating: 79.7/100 (8)

Rating Count: 8

IGDB ID: 203642

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Additional Information

IGDB Rating: 79.7/100 (8 votes)

Release Date: February 16, 2023

IGDB ID: 203642

Платформы 4

Switch

PC

PS5

XOne

Genres 3

Point-and-click Puzzle Role-playing (RPG)

Themes 4

Drama Historical Indie Thriller

Player Perspectives 1

Side view

Game Modes 1

Single player

Companies

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Developers

Yakov Butuzoff

No description available

Publishers

DANGEN Entertainment

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Keywords

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