The Left Eye

The Left Eye is an LGBTQ crime-capering romance set in the 1920s. You follow Emile de la Roche, who presents himself as a French aristocrat, a visiting bon vivant and the performer known as the “Queen of France.” In truth, Emile is an illiterate con artist who may not even be French.

Emile and Alex

Emile and his best friend and fixer, Jackie, plan to con Alex Warren, a rich, naïve man who is out of his depth in New York’s underworld. Alex is the closeted son of a Seattle mobster and has been exiled after family affairs turn messy. Emile expects to take his money and leave on the next train, but the story does not unfold as planned.

The characters include con artists, thieves and murderers, as well as Great War deserters and draft dodgers living with night terrors and trauma. They lie to survive, moving between old money and mobsters in an era when Prohibition brings high society into the same underground drinking holes as everyone else.

Episodes and secrets

The story is serialized across six planned episodes, with episodes one, two and three available. It includes passwords, secrets and Easter eggs, and player decisions bring consequences that may return to haunt them.

Art and music

The game features hand-drawn CGs and sprites, original arrangements of jazz standards and an optional film grain filter.