A dev workforce referred to as Longdue introduced that they’re creating 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 might probably name its personal recreation a “religious successor.” It’s a brand new psychological RPG, set in a recreation world conceived by the leads of the now canceled Disco Elysium sequel.
London-based Longdue lately shaped as a brand new unbiased studio that has raised seed funding to create an RPG that may proceed Disco Elysium’s award-winning legacy and characterize a daring new creative endeavor that goals to trailblaze within the narrative-first cRPG house.
Whereas the brand new workforce is asking this a “religious successor,” it’s price nothing that the builders of the unique Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov, will not be concerned within the new title.
Longdue is already a dozen sturdy, together with workforce members that labored on the unique Disco Elysium and its unreleased sequel. The workforce can 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 surroundings, gamers will navigate a continuously shifting panorama, formed by each inner and exterior forces.
The sport introduces a psychogeographic RPG mechanic, the place each choice reshapes each the world and the characters that inhabit it. On this expertise, the strains between the thoughts and the surroundings blur, colliding and reworking with every alternative, main gamers by means of an ever-evolving narrative panorama.
Whereas Longdue’s debut challenge attracts from the inventive vitality 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 growth, the corporate stated.
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 grow to be a trusted title within the larger RPG canon.
“At Longdue, we’re impressed by many years of traditional RPGs, from Ultima and Wizardry, by means of Fallout and Planescape, to the justifiably adored Disco Elysium,” stated narrative director Grant Roberts, in an announcement. “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 workforce for a world-class recreation that may inform a world-class story, and we will’t wait to indicate you extra.”
Longdue investor consultant Riaz Moola stated in an announcement, “We’re excited to again the work of an unbelievable workforce of inventive expertise and help the event of a brand new kind of narrative-first online game expertise and related expertise 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 stated the sport world has been conceived by workers who labored on the unique Disco Elysium and the workforce consists of 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 among the parts that resonated with folks within the first recreation – the mixture of deep, layered world-building, psychological complexity and clever storytelling,” the spokesperson stated.
“Having stated all that, Longdue could be very a lot its personal entity with its personal imaginative and prescient that will probably be making a model new world and on the lookout for methods to push boundaries in new instructions, slightly than simply replicating what’s already been carried out,” the spokesperson stated.
There are a few dozen folks on the workforce 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 workers being revealed now.
