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The Left Eye

A honey-trapping, backstabbing, high-stakes story with a romantic heart, featuring problematic gays to suit a variety of bad tastes. Set in 1920s New York, this episodic visual novel follows an audacious conman juggling friends, enemies, and the most outrageous scam he’s ever tried to pull.

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Release Date:

Nov 21, 2025

Developer:

Haunted Trumpet

Publisher:

Haunted Trumpet

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Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“The Left Eye is a story-driven game released in a serialized format. Each episode builds on the last, narratively and mechanically, and Early Access lets us share episodes as they’re finished and hear what players think. Player feedback will allow us to tweak, polish, and improve earlier episodes along the way.

Our goal is to tell a complete, finished story across six episodes. ”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We plan to remain in Early Access until all six episodes are released. The first two episodes are complete and playable now, and work is underway on episode three. The full plot arc of the game has been planned and outlined.

New episodes will be added as major content updates when they are completed, and we anticipate that all episodes will be finished and available by late 2027.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“We are planning for the full version to include six episodes, each around 10,000 words long, with their own sets of unlockable CGs, codex entries, and Steam achievements. We also intend to add further branching and narrative variation based on player choices.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Episodes one and two are finished and fully playable for a total of approximately 20000 words, around 20 unlockable CGs, and 28 unlockable codex entries.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“We intend to slightly raise the price as new episodes are released.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We will be reviewing and responding to feedback via our social media accounts (Bluesky and Tumblr) and discussions on the Steam Community forums. Feedback will help us polish existing episodes and make future episodes even better.”

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About This Game

It's 1926 in New York City...

...and Emile de la Roche is many things to many people. A French aristocrat, leaving a slew of proposals unanswered in Calais. A visiting bon vivant, sampling the finest of the Big Apple. The 'Queen of France', a performer and fleeting star of the pansy scene.

The truth? Emile de la Roche is an illiterate con artist.

He might not even be French.

Enter: The Mark

And then Emile meets Alex Warren, a mobster's closeted son exiled from Seattle when family affairs got messy. Rich, naïve and out of his depth in New York's underworld, it should be easy to rip him off and hop the next train.

And that's precisely what Emile and Jackie, his best friend and fixer, intend to do.

But you know how these stories go, right?

Nothing's ever that easy

Our heroes are con artists, thieves, and murderers. They’re Great War deserters and draft dodgers, carrying night terrors and trauma, and they're lying to survive every day.

In an era where prohibition forced the best of high society down into the same underground drinking holes as the lowest of the low, they may rub shoulders with old money or mobsters... but they're always faking it.

An LGBTQ crime-capering romance set in the roaring twenties
Script by award-winning stage & TV writer Conway McDermott
Developed by an indie team of approximately three queers in a trenchcoat
Hand-drawn CGs and sprites
Original arrangements of jazz standards
Episodes one & two available in Early Access
Serialized over six planned episodes, with future episodes to be added in updates during Early Access
Don't worry about making bad decisions, just enjoy the consequences... for now. Early episodes are mostly linear, but you never know what might come back to haunt you
Be gay
Do crime

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains mature themes, including strong language, criminal activity, period-specific bigotry and homophobic slurs, use of alcohol, and depictions of violence. Use of slurs can be censored via the settings menu.

Future episodes of the game will include scenes with non-explicit sexual content. These may explore adult relationships, emotional manipulation, and morally ambiguous situations. All such content will be clearly signposted with content warnings and an option will be provided to censor sexual content via the settings menu.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3 (4th Gen or newer)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000 or equivalent; supports DX10/OpenGL 4.1)
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 4 GB available space

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