Weird aesthetics abound in point-and-click comsic gothic Blood on the Thames [Video]

Here’s one for those of you that enjoy an odd little bit of indie storytelling: Blood on the Thames is a “murder mystery puzzle game with visual novel elements in a Gothic, Lovecraftian world.” In it, your sleuth must solve a supernatural murder in a Victorian London still reeling from the Jack the Ripper murders.

You play Minerva “Mini” Ernest, whose husband was killed in a bizarre incident with a spiral cut up his leg. With the police unable to solve the mystery you hunt down the cause across Victorian London “from the alabaster mansions of high society, to the coal-stained factories of the Industrial Revolution, to the watery depths of the sewers beneath the city.”

The occult overtones of the story quickly take a cosmic twist, overtly bringing in the influence of Lovecraft-style cosmic horror and a gothic milieu that I found pretty compelling conceptually. Most of all is …