About eight years ago, indie developer Christoffer Bodegård began roughing out what would eventually become Esoteric Ebb, an ambitious single-player CRPG inspired by the likes of D&D, Disco Elysium, and Planescape: Torment. The project, Bodegård writes in a "pre-mortem" post ahead of the game's launch on March 3, nearly drove him to bankruptcy before he was saved by its now-publisher, Raw Fury. And boy, does this RPG sound good.
Esoteric Ebb, which has a Steam demo you can try for yourself, is an "isometric, Disco-like, TTRPG-turned-CRPG set in a bizarre post-Arcanepunk fantasy setting" and stars perhaps the worst cleric known to man. Promising "staggering" depth in choice and consequence, the game invites you to "become the most interesting player at the table and completely ruin your DM's day." It looks like a ball of RPG yarn that will be very fun to untangle, and it's come a long way in nearly a decade of development.
