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Anyone else playing Esoteric Ebb?

I can't believe how good this is and how little its being talked about. Lots of depth and apparently more content than you might expect from an indie. The Steam reviews are positive and I'm already seeing people call it a "Discolike" because gamers love to use retarded terminology like that.
 
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Never heard of it

Looks neat though
 
I really liked the intro/character creator. It felt so much like Platescape Torment (the inner dialogue...not anything else) that I got lost in the demo for hours.

It was a chill laid back "dialogue battler"™ and by the time I was done playing I was mentally tired. Funny what happens when you have to use your brain....
Really like the art style (especially the Persona-ish vibes I got from the...well...personas) but there is a LOT of dialogue.

I want to go hunt shit and pick up everything off the ground in Crimson Desert so I am saving up all my gaming goo™ for that at the end of the month.
 
it's ok, I dropped it for now as backlog of better games awaits, will get back to it at some point. It's definitely inspired by disco elysium but didnt hook me from the off
 
I guarantee this will be on *many* GOTY lists this year - absolutely brilliant execution of a comedy RPG. Been following it for years (since I first heard of it), checked out the next fest demo for 5 mins "yeah insta-buy as soon as it's available" - snapped it up on release.

There are very few games that feel like they were built directly for my tastes but this is one of them.

Highly recommended if you like point and click adventures, disco elysium, D&D, or expect games to be "fun" (and sometimes funny). The writing is brilliant, the choices are interesting and yeah you may not be a jamrock hobo but you can be the cleric of your dreams.
 
'Discolikes' may actually become a thing, because there's a number of games based on that concept coming out.

The visuals are definitely not my style, Zero Parades looks way better by comparison.
 
I can understand not liking the term "discolike" but at the same time I can't be the only person who completed Disco and realised there is pretty much no other games that come close to Disco and was very frustrated. It deserves its own genre.
 
I can understand not liking the term "discolike" but at the same time I can't be the only person who completed Disco and realised there is pretty much no other games that come close to Disco and was very frustrated. It deserves its own genre.
I thought this one goes back more to Planescape Torment?
 
Played the demo which was fine but it made me reinstall Disco Elysium which I did and now replaying. Ebb just doesnt have that...thing...to grab me, but wishlisted.
 
I can understand not liking the term "discolike" but at the same time I can't be the only person who completed Disco and realised there is pretty much no other games that come close to Disco and was very frustrated. It deserves its own genre.
I just think classifying things as a "<thing>-like" is stupid and encourages dismissiveness and pigeonholing when talking about games. "Durr, is dis a Soulsliek game? U can dodge"
 
Found out about the game only yesterday, and it is pretty much Disco in fantasy setting. Dialogue looks and feels the same, the controls, even the sounds.

But let's see if I will actually buy it after finishing the demo. Might buy since there really aren't many games like these around.
 
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