Longdue, the studio based with contributors to Disco Elysium and different trade veterans, introduced the crowdfunding pre-launch for its debut recreation, Hopetown.
A restricted variety of registrations for the pre-launch can be found on Longdue’s web site, at www.longduegames.com, with those who register early getting first entry to a restricted set of backer rewards when the marketing campaign goes reside.
Merging the uncooked emotional depth and psychological intricacy of Disco Elysium with the philosophical richness and narrative complexity of Planescape: Torment, this new psychological RPG will invite gamers into an unforgettable world the place tales are weapons, selections ripple by means of the surroundings, and light-weight and darkness collide—not simply between its denizens, however inside them too, the corporate stated.
Contributors embrace Piotr Sobolewsk, who beforehand oversaw pivotal contributions to the core techniques that outlined Disco Elysium. These groundbreaking mechanics, celebrated for his or her depth and ingenuity, reimagined how RPGs deal with narrative, selection, and participant company.
Now, Sobolewsk is constructing on these foundations, making use of the teachings discovered from Disco Elysium to assist the Longdue staff craft daring, progressive designs on the coronary heart of Hopetown – shaping a brand new imaginative and prescient for what narrative-driven RPGs can obtain.
“Having overseen the team of 15 that was credited with ‘saving’ Disco Elysium and which worked on it for nearly six years, pre- and post-release, I’m excited to work with the Longdue team to create a rich RPG experience to serve fans of the genre,” Sobolewsk stated in an announcement.
With extra expertise set to be unveiled as a part of the crowdfunding launch, Longdue is constructing an all-star ensemble to ship a narrative-first RPG that can additional the style of psychological, narrative-first RPGs, the corporate stated. However the studio isn’t simply assembling expertise—it’s setting the stage for unforgettable moments. Followers ought to put together for surprises that can rekindle their love for what made Disco Elysium so distinctive, together with some very acquainted voices that can resonate deeply with the group.
What Is Hopetown?
In Hopetown, phrases are your deadliest weapon, and each selection leaves its mark. Set in a mining city caught between decay and transformation, formed by ambition, exploitation, and the delicate techniques that bind society collectively, you step into the function of a rogue journalist—a chaotic, self-destructive provocateur who sees humanity as inherently egocentric and merciless. Unapologetically cynical and dangerously unhinged, you thrive on poking at bruises, pulling at unfastened threads, and watching what unravels.
A City of Contrasts
The city itself is an enviornment of extremes. The suffocating darkness of the mine’s depths mirrors the buried truths of its inhabitants, whereas the floor world—glittering with the promise of progress—is steeped in corruption and energy performs. It’s a spot the place survival will depend on who controls the story, and the place each determination ripples outward, reshaping not simply the world, however your self.
Constructing on the legacies of Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment, Hopetown introduces techniques that redefine participant company. The psychogeography system transforms how gamers work together with the sport world: feelings, recollections, and conversations substitute conventional mechanics like keys and levers, changing into the instruments that unlock doorways, alter landscapes, and reshape relationships. Progress isn’t nearly fixing puzzles or discovering gadgets—it’s about navigating the protagonist’s fractured psyche and the ripples it creates within the surroundings.
In the meantime, a brand new journalism-based RPG system provides you the instruments to craft tales that form the world—and your self. Will you embrace chaos as a gonzo journalist, spinning wild, attention-grabbing narratives? Will you twist actuality as a conspiracist, bending occasions to fit your worldview? Or will you dig deep as a calculated investigator, exposing brutal truths to spark revolt—or sow complacency?
A crucible of selections
The mining city is greater than a setting—it’s a crucible. What truths will you reveal? What lies will you inform? Will your phrases encourage hope or destruction? Will you reshape the techniques of energy, or will they eat you?
This can be a recreation the place all the pieces transforms all the pieces else. Each phrase you select issues. Each determination carries weight. And each story you inform modifications the world—and the delicate techniques that maintain it collectively.
Backing Hopetown isn’t nearly funding—it’s about constructing a group, backing a imaginative and prescient and casting a vote, the corporate stated. Longdue is an unbiased studio daring to create the sorts of video games greater studios gained’t or can’t make—video games that problem their gamers and let gamers problem the video games again. With Hopetown, Longdue is constructing a motion for Disco-Like narrative-driven RPGs that don’t shrink back from complexity, emotion, or ambition.
Those that register in time for the pre-launch crowdfunding marketing campaign through Longdue’s web site, at www.longduegames.com, will achieve first entry to a restricted variety of rewards that will likely be obtainable privately shortly earlier than the crowdfunding marketing campaign goes public.
Contributors from Disco Elysium: Seven individuals who labored on Disco Elysium throughout manufacturing, narrative and writing, world design, sound, audio, and technical design have contributed to Hopetown so far, bringing their experience, learnings, and information to this daring new challenge.
An All-Star Group of RPG Expertise: Supported by trade veterans with credit on Cult of the Lamb, The Witcher universe, Sure, Your Grace, and extra, Longdue is combining the uncooked inventive vitality of Disco Elysium with the most effective expertise within the RPG house to ship one thing really extraordinary.
A Religious Successor: Drawing inspiration from the narrative depth of Disco Elysium and the philosophical complexity of Planescape: Torment, Hopetown redefines what a psychological RPG can obtain.
Groundbreaking Mechanics: Introducing progressive techniques like psychogeography, the place feelings and recollections reshape the world, and a journalism RPG system, which empowers gamers to craft tales that affect notion, encourage revolt, or implement complacency.
