Loretta

Loretta is a psychological thriller about a housewife who discovers her husband’s infidelity and a lucrative life insurance policy in his name. Set in the socially tumultuous 1940s, the story follows Loretta as she tries to reclaim her agency. Through dialogue choices, object interactions and discoveries, you decide how far she goes and whether her story stays a web of deceit or leads to murder.

Story

Loretta and her husband Walter, a writer, leave the glitz and glamour of New York City for a dilapidated farmhouse in the rural south. Both are struggling financially and in their relationship. After learning of Walter’s infidelity and the insurance policy, Loretta begins to form a grisly plan; you decide how far she follows it.

Choices and puzzles

You solve cryptic puzzles that reveal more about Loretta’s imperfect past and her desperation to regain control of her life. The story has branching paths and multiple endings, with no heroes to take sides with. You choose Loretta’s fate as opportunities arise, and can replay to explore different outcomes.

Influences

The game draws conceptual inspiration from film noir, the art of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper, and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Philip Ridley, Stephen King and Vladimir Nabokov.