To the Moon 3 release date announced, features time loop murder mystery

After being announced back in Ye Olde 2019, To the Moon 3 finally has a release date. The third game in the cult hit adventure series releases on September 30, 2024.

The first To the Moon, released in 2011, was a weirdly touching narrative adventure following two doctors who Inception their way into a dying patient’s memories with the goal of rewriting them to fulfill his last wish. We got a sequel called Finding Paradise in 2017 that followed the same doctors with a new patient. To the Moon 3, dubbed “Impostor Factory,” is evidently quite darker in tone. It still follows the good Drs. Watts and Rosalene, but this time they’re dealing with a man named Quincy as he lives through a time-looping murder mystery in a mysterious mansion.

Judging from the trailer, things will get even weirder when Lovecraftian tentacles reach through a portal and approach Earth. The game’s Steam page says that’s just one-third of what Impostor Factory is about, but I’m already intrigued if Cthulhu detective work can make me cry like the original. Thankfully, Freebird says that you don’t have to play the previous games to appreciate this one.

If it’s been a hot minute since you thought about developer Freebird Games’ stories, they’ve previously released comics following Dr. Watts and Rosalene, and plan to release another comic alongside Impostor Factory’s launch. You can wishlist Impostor Factory on Steam now.