Status BMO Apr 23, 2026
Zoë Hannah's piece on Esoteric Ebb at Mothership resurrects my interest in experiencing this game. Maybe I'll give it a shot soon.
Esoteric Ebb (2026)
4.25 from 36 ratings
133 members have it in their collection · 5 playing now · 48 backlogged · 56 wish listed
How long? Main story 22h · with extras 28h (from 2 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Christoffer Bodegård
- Publishers
- Raw Fury
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
- Events
- PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025, gamescom awesome indies 2025, The MIX Summer Game Showcase 2025
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Mar 03, 2026 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution
5 stars
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4 stars
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3 stars
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2 stars
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1 star
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Community All Reviews Statuses
Status shinespark Mar 26, 2026
This game is mostly a straightforward Disco Elysium clone, with boring lore and a sense of humor that's pleasant enough despite being far more miss than hit. But the way it positions its fascist dweeb militia characters and its labor union journalists as two sides of the same extremist coin is just incredibly obnoxious.
Over and over again we're told …
This game is mostly a straightforward Disco Elysium clone, with boring lore and a sense of humor that's pleasant enough despite being far more miss than hit. But the way it positions its fascist dweeb militia characters and its labor union journalists as two sides of the same extremist coin is just incredibly obnoxious.
Over and over again we're told that these adult male racists bear no responsibility for their harassment and violence, for they are mere victims of ambient economic anxiety. Over and over we're prompted to push the journalists (all women) towards softening their eminently reasonable critiques and making peace with the genocidal establishment. And of course the only way to complete the journalists' quest is to get them to work together with the fascists, because compromise is always the most enlightened and proper solution, even when you're bargaining for your own life. Asinine.