Steam game

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.

$4.99 November 21, 2025

By Haunted Trumpet

Windows
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The Left Eye - Haunted Trumpet. Popular. Released November 21, 2025
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Overview

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.

Features

  • 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

  • Passwords, secrets, and Easter eggs, oh my!

  • Optional film grain filter for that old-timey feel

  • Original arrangements of jazz standards

  • Episodes one, two & three available now

  • 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. But who knows what might come back to haunt you?

  • Be gay

  • Do crime

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