
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
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Esoteric Ebb is an isometric, Disco-like, TTRPG-turned-CRPG set in a bizarre post-Arcanepunk fantasy setting. You are The Cleric, an expert in esoteric events, and a glorified government goon. Inspired by classic CRPG games, Esoteric Ebb features deep and branching dialogs with a staggering amount of choices.
Create the world’s worst cleric. Take on the city through tense TTRPG dice rolls. Struggle to maintain control with your Stats chiming in at every moment. Let the voices guide you into insane encounters and hit that natural 20 right when you need it. Become the most interesting player at the table and completely ruin your DM’s day.
Five days until the first-ever election, a tea shop explodes in the heart of the city. They send you to deal with the mess.
You wake up in a morgue with half the river in your boots, surrounded by ten thousand rotting apples, several corpses, and one zombie. Out of your depth and with no official backup, you delve into your beloved city to investigate the impossible mystery no one wants you to solve. Juggle factions and play them against each other. Explore the streets and tunnels of a fantasy metropolis. Debate devils, drunk sphinxes, and all manner of fantastical fools in a world where mythological creatures sell newspapers at corner shops and ideologies overtake the ramblings of dead gods.

Don’t forget the most important question: What are you voting in the election?
MAKE CHOICES THAT WILL COME BACK TO BITE YOU. Shifting alliances! Risky dungeoneering! Complete open-ended quests, low and high-stakes alike, set in the streets, towers, and dark tunnels of Norvik. Become the city’s savior, its demise, or bumble your way into absolute power.
TRUST THE DICE. Let chance guide you! Roll to wrestle dwarves, steal anything in sight, or to keep yourself from looking like a complete fool. But remember, in true TTRPG fashion, failure can often be way more interesting.

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. Debate yourself! Each Ability Stat has a conflicting viewpoint and loves to interrupt important conversations. No matter whose side you fall on, you'll complete quests in wonderfully ridiculous ways.

WIELD REALITY-SHAPING MAGIC. Use The Cleric’s power for unique narrative choices. Control minds for fun and profit. Detect secrets in the tunnels below or in the thoughts of your enemies. Speak with anyone, living or dead, just to see how they insult you.

TURN-BASED ENCOUNTERS. Clerics in Norvik are taught to use violence as a last resort. When the need does arise, a roll of the dice determines life or death. But you always have a bizarre solution to any problem, don’t you?

THE QUESTING TREE. Your quest log, skill tree, and mind map all at once. Each Quest Branch can take root in your mind and alter The Cleric’s playstyle through game-changing feats.

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Languages: English
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I will have to write a proper review at some point, but for now let it be said that I f***ing LOVE this game! Disco Elysium is probably the best written game ever and I am very happy that it has partially inspired this game. Though make no mistake: Esoteric Ebb is very much its own game and you can tell how literal years of thought, passion, and blood, sweat and tears have been put into every character, every conversation, every bit of world-building of this small gem of a game. I just love this world, these characters, the political, social, economic, historic, ESOTERIC forces in tension with each other. At times this game can be downright poetic, while at others you laugh your heart out. If you liked DE and you are not turned off by some D&D inspired fantasy setting, GO PLAY THIS NOW
C'était beau, bien écrit, touchant, captivant, incroyable. Si vous avez aimé Disco Elysium alors n'hésitez pas une seule seconde et achetez-le. SEUL DEFAUT (et pas des moindres) il n'y a pour le moment aucune version française, cependant le jeu reste tout à fait approchable pour quelqu'un qui comprend bien l'anglais écrit.
Love it
bucket on head, bucket is head?
It's one of the games that justifies the games as a media. As a person capable of complete immersion in the fantasy, be that a book, a movie or a game, it engaged me on many many many levels.
Öncelikle merhabalar sayın oyuncu umarım iyisindir. Şahsen ben bu kelimeleri dökerken gayet mutlu ve eğlenmiş bir şekilde yazıyorum bu oyun uzun bir süre favori oyun listemin tepesinde olacak yegane oyun gibime geliyor. disco elysium u çok seven ve defalarca her skill ağacına kadar bakmış öğrenmiş biri olarak bu oyun gerçekten o hissiyatı geri kazandırdı umarım ki bu oyun gibi niceleri çıkar çünkü bu oyunun vad ettikleri gerçekten zevk verici oyunu oynayacak olanlar için bir kaç önerim olacak ingilizce oynayacaklar için ortalama-ortalamanın biraz üstü bu oyun için gayet yeterli birde eğer oynayacaksanız benim fikrimce gün gün oynamak en mantıklısı ben bir anda 9.30 saat gibi devasa sürede kalkmadan oynadım sadece biraz daha yavaş girişip hikayeyi daha güzel sindirseydim eğer türkçe dil seçeneği gelirse kesinlikle yeniden oynayacağım 10\10 luk bir oyun benim için oyunda güzel optimize edilmiş biraz eski pc olmasına rağmen on numara çalıştı .
[h1]Harika[/h1] Oynadığım en iyi CRPG
Great game! Just finished and while I never play any games a second time, this might get it, to see what I missed. It is THAT engaging! DnD fans will fall in love with it. I lost nights of sleep, wanting to see how a quest would end or looking for something. Many choices, so it will be different every time. Obviously inspired by Disco Elysium, as they are the same vein, but does it differently. The ability scores and inner voices actually feel like characters, and saw myself siding with one over the other. Some voice acting would have been good to see but honestly, get this game!
[h1] Послушай меня, Клирик! [/h1] Представьте: вы могучий маг, искусный оратор, дерзкий воин и обаятельный сердцеед. В этом мире вы можете [b] ВСЁ [/b], но не уверены буквально [b] НИ В ЧЁМ [/b]. И взяв всю волю в кулак, идете вы вершить судьбу Толстада… EEbbс как мне кажется, один из лучших RPG проектов последних времён, а также, что недавно стало новомодным, отличный Элизиоид [i] (ZA/UM наследие и все дела) [/i]. Сумев удивить меня, изысканного игрока, Изотик буквально трещал по швам лишь бы не развалиться сюжетно И технически. Для начала. Игра слишком буквально идет по стопам Disco Elysium, что ей, объективно, только мешает. Главный герой не то чтобы теряет память, чтобы испытывать проблемы с самоопределением, однако именно это и пытаются продавить сценаристы. Хотя по ходу мы неиронично узнаем, что он то [u] ВСЁ ПОМНИТ [/u] и самого себя осознаёт. От кратковременной амнезии стоило бы отказаться, хотя бы (без спойлеров) с позиции концовки игры: клирик уж больно много сомневается для человека, чей мировоззренческий стержень был сломлен в день прибытия. Странно, очень странно. Спихнем все на магию. Технически, игры чуть лучше чем ранний релиз. Баги не критичны, и даже очень вписываются в общий кавардак событий. Эдакие аномалии. Но вот что бьёт лично по моему сердцу – анимации. Их мало, они не отражают, зачастую, повествование в игре. Если пишут, что персонаж мечется из стороны в сторону, 100% на экране он будет просто стоять. И это не правильно, даже преступно невежественно для D&D. Вы же ролевики, cmon, сделайте мясо на экране: синематики, слайдшоу, комикс, да хоть карикатуры… это бы сыграли только [b] НАТУРАЛЬНО [/b] на руку, втянув в гущу событий все 6 чувств. Пока только на троечку. С натяжкой. Не смотря на множество противоречий, в конце нашего главного квеста всё встаёт на места: без зазоров раскрывается идея, проблема, игрового мира. Отсюда для обзора стоит подчеркнуть только то, что вымышленные политические учения, течения, силы ничего общего с нашими не имеют. Поэтому цепляться за Азгалистов (социалистов) только потому, что так Вам завещал Красный Октябрь не стоит – здесь это ломаные драки без стержня. Так или иначе, такие игры именно для долгого, вдумчивого прохождения. С медитативным размышлением о судьбе, долгими метаниями уже впоследствии, сидя за пустым монитором. Возможно, именно это и называется искусством. PS‐------Игра вовсе не идеальная, во многом уступает своему идеологу от ZA/UM, но определённо имеет смысл. Это веселое приключение, полное тайн и волшебства. Дайте ей шанс, если вы любите что-то из этого. Ну и настолки тоже, если, любите.
This is a fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously while also tackling giant problems. It plays with the mechanics introduced in disco eylsium while offering a seamless blend with DND rules. The game also offers replayibility if one wishes as there are many paths open and so many different quests to do if one is adventure minded. It keeps the game open for many possible dlcs and after finishing the game it has me craving more.
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