A dev group referred to as Longdue introduced that they’re growing a “religious successor” to Disco Elysium, a well-liked trendy RPG launched in 2019.
The precise Disco Elysium sequel has been canceled, and that’s why Longdue believes it may name its personal sport a “religious successor.” It’s a brand new psychological RPG, set in a sport world conceived by the leads of the now canceled Disco Elysium sequel.
London-based Longdue not too long ago fashioned as a brand new impartial studio that has raised seed funding to create an RPG that may proceed Disco Elysium’s award-winning legacy and signify a daring new inventive endeavor that goals to trailblaze within the narrative-first cRPG area.
Whereas the brand new group is looking this a “religious successor,” it’s value nothing that the builders of the unique Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov, should not concerned within the new title.
Longdue is already a dozen robust, together with group members that labored on the unique Disco Elysium and its unreleased sequel. The group can also be drawing expertise from throughout the business, together with veterans from Bungie, Rockstar, and Courageous At Evening.
A Psychogeographic RPG with narrative depth
Longdue’s debut RPG explores the fragile interaction between the acutely aware and unconscious, the seen and unseen. Set in a world the place decisions ripple between the character’s psyche and setting, gamers will navigate a always shifting panorama, formed by each inside and exterior forces.
The sport introduces a psychogeographic RPG mechanic, the place each resolution reshapes each the world and the characters that inhabit it. On this expertise, the traces between the thoughts and the setting blur, colliding and remodeling with every alternative, main gamers via an ever-evolving narrative panorama.
Whereas Longdue’s debut venture attracts from the inventive power and legacy of Disco Elysium and different beloved RPGs, like Planescape: Torment, it’s additionally crafted to face independently as a significant addition to the RPG style. Longdue is dedicated to creating video games that carry the burden of considerate design and fascinating storytelling, positioning the studio as a gentle, reliable voice in RPG improvement, the corporate mentioned.
Longdue goals to create video games that resonate emotionally and intellectually. The studio is right here to construct a popularity for constantly delivering high quality, with a deal with depth and narrative integrity. That is just the start of Longdue’s journey to turn into a trusted title within the larger RPG canon.
“At Longdue, we’re impressed by many years of basic RPGs, from Ultima and Wizardry, via Fallout and Planescape, to the justifiably adored Disco Elysium,” mentioned narrative director Grant Roberts, in a press release. “We’re excited to proceed that legacy with one other narrative-first, psychological RPG, the place the interaction between interior worlds and exterior landscapes is the beating coronary heart of the expertise. We’re constructing a world-class group for a world-class sport that may inform a world-class story, and we are able to’t wait to indicate you extra.”
Longdue investor consultant Riaz Moola mentioned in a press release, “We’re excited to again the work of an unimaginable group of inventive expertise and assist the event of a brand new sort of narrative-first online game expertise and related know-how to enhance the creation of those video games throughout the online game business.”
I requested how this was a religious sequel if the unique founders weren’t engaged on it. A spokesperson mentioned the sport world has been conceived by employees who labored on the unique Disco Elysium and the group contains a number of individuals who labored on the canceled Disco Elysium sequel.
“A number of individuals who labored on Disco Elysium’s canceled sequel are engaged on the sport. It’s a religious successor within the sense that it’s a narrative-driven cRPG that consciously attracts on a few of the components that resonated with individuals within the first sport – the mix of deep, layered world-building, psychological complexity and clever storytelling,” the spokesperson mentioned.
“Having mentioned all that, Longdue may be very a lot its personal entity with its personal imaginative and prescient that shall be making a model new world and in search of methods to push boundaries in new instructions, moderately than simply replicating what’s already been completed,” the spokesperson mentioned.
There are a couple of dozen individuals on the group and the entity has raised cash, however they’re not saying how a lot but. They’re additionally not disclosing the secret but. Moola (chairman) and Roberts (narrative director) are the one employees being revealed now.
