There aren’t many games like them around tbh.

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    Are you talking about Infinity Engine inspired CRPGs in general? There’s others, like Pillars of Eternity 1+2, Tyranny, Torment: Tides of Numenera (a spiritual sequel to P:T), Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader.

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      Obsidian doesn’t really make these anymore, but they were pretty good at it for a while. Larian and Owlcat are probably the biggest publishers of them.

      If you’re open to smaller scale projects with similar feel, there’s stuff in the indie space, too - I’d point towards the Citizen Sleeper games and there’s definitely some “Disco-likes” out or in development (like Lovely Lady RPG and Esoteric Ebb)

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        And if you want some other games with similar tone/vibe to P:T, I’ll point you towards Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer expansion.

        Edit: CW: these both have heavy writing influence from Chris Avellone, who has some allegations against him. They’re interesting games, but I just want to extremely cautiously recommend them. Also, Obsidian is a Microsoft subsidiary and probably still on the BDS boycott.

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        that it is, pillars is probably closer writing-wise, i guess, but it’s also a full ass rpg where the stats and equipment matter, and that feels like it’s against the spirit of the games

        edit: and yeah you can turn the difficulty down to it not matterting, but like, the game wasn’t made for that; it was made so that combat is a big part of the content, at that point you might as well be reading a visual novel (which i highly encourage)

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          at that point you might as well be reading a visual novel (which i highly encourage)

          screm-cool Hell yeah skeleton-motorcycle

          That’s also why in my self deep-nesting I suggested stuff like Citizen Sleeper. RPG adjacent game with lightweight rules. Dustpunk was another one with a steampunk communist revolution bent.

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              I think so. They were on here a little while ago, but I’m struggling to find the post.

              I liked the game, but the mechanics didn’t have the same level of ludo-narritive synergy to me that the Citizen Sleeper games did. Granted, Dust Punk has a big part involving organizing a revolutionary movement and I’m a bad leftist IRL lol - the struggling to get by in Citizen Sleeper just felt more relatable to me.