We are in 1947, in deep America. Lora has agreed to follow her writer husband, Walter, and leave New York to settle in the countryside. Walter is the silent type but Lora suspects him of fleeing the city so as not to have to face his creditors. Worse still, she suspects him of deception. It won’t take her long to realize that she’s given up everything for a man she doesn’t love and who betrayed her. When she learns that Walter’s editor has taken out $30,000 in life insurance for him, she assumes the worst.
loretta presents itself as a psychological thriller emphasizing dialogue choices and interactions with its environment in the manner of a point’n’click. Yakov Butuzoff thus promises that the player will be free to decide the trajectory of his heroine: will he follow her in her macabre plan or will he choose another path? Aesthetically, the bias of the title is inspired by the well-known imagery of America in the 1940s, while its scenario summons multiple influences: The Mirror Child by Philip Ridley, the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, 1922 by Stephen King or even lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. And if the trailer accompanying the news of the partnership between Yakov Butuzoff and Dangen Entertainment baited you, know that a demo of the game is already available on Steam. The final game does not yet have a release date.