This supplement is basically a way of merging Call of Cthulhu with The Sprawl. It does a reasonable job of providing mechanics for doing that, with Moves for CoC style magic, Eldritch Trauma (san checks), and some other things of that sort. Its pretty sparse on details of the setting. The flavor text is almost all backstory with little focus put on how you'd actually play the game. There's like 4 short paragraphs in the whole "running the game" section. Which really don't say much besides "everyone's gonna be interested in the weird stuff". Little to nothing about the flavor and mission implications of these setting and mechanic changes.

The mechanics seem serviceable and the writing is the expected high quality that previous Sprawl books have had. But the substance just didn't feel "there" for me in this one. I was more inspired by most of the short settings in November Metric than I was by anything in this book.

If you already have lots of ideas for your Event Horizon/Cloverfield/Delta Green-cyborg edition game and want some workable mechanics to support it, this would be a worthwhile pick up. If you are hoping to be inspired by a unique twist on cyberpunk settings the way November Metric did, but with horror/urban fantasy, this probably falls short. At least, it did for me.

Hopefully the 2nd one in the series (Touched Prime) has more focus on flavor and gameplay implications rather than a pile of mechanics that assume you already know how to play a Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu game effectively.