First look at Disco Elysium “spiritual successor” Hopetown shows a painterly, gorgeous, and utterly unconvincing RPG | Gaming

Longdue Games have shared the first gameplay image from Hopetown, their RPG “spiritual successor” to Disco Elysium, coming soon to Kickstarter.

First namelessly teased last October as part of The Great Disco Thrupening, then revealed last month, Hopetown was described as “merging the raw emotional depth and psychological intricacy of Disco Elysium with the philosophical richness and narrative complexity of Planescape: Torment.”

At the time, I hoped this tone and tenor of trying too hard was just press release guff. No such luck, if the writing shown off below is any indication.

But let’s first back up a moment, because it does look great. So great I’m having some difficulty believing this is what the game looks like, rather than just being…more

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