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ESOTERIC EBB is a single-player RPG built on boundless tabletop freedom. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Explore a city on the brink of its first ever election. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.

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Norvik Election Day Celebration

26 Mar

The first ever election in Norvikian history takes place on March 26th, 27 P.W. Five days earlier, something truly esoteric happens. Just a few minutes past noon, on the 21st, a fire erupts on Pillar Road, right at the heart of the city.

Hello again! Chris here, back with another quick update on development. In short: it's going WELL.

The Second Draft Demo has been downloaded over 16 000 times!

It's mind-blowing to see, but there have been THOUSANDS of clerics running around a small piece of Tolstad these last few months, causing all kinds of trouble. Here's three fun facts about your choices in the DEMO:

The most common character build was by FAR - STR: 15, DEX: 6, CON: 6, INT: 15, WIS: 6, CHA: 15.
Dexterity was overall the lowest stat chosen, at an average of 10.24. Then it was Strength at 10.35, Constitution at 10.62, Intelligence at 11.01, Charisma at 11.42, and finally Wisdom was highest at 11.65.
Over 94.8% of clerics chose to NOT flirt with the evil and cunning Agent Viira.

One of these fun facts is false. I made it up. Guess which one.

The Discord is close to reaching 500 members!

The community is growing way beyond what I expected. We've got some amazing fan-art, a bunch of great discussions, and a ton of helpful bug reports and suggestions. I'm very grateful! Join here[discord.gg]!

TurnBasedThursday inclusion!

I'm also happy to announce we'll be taking part in #TurnBasedThursdayFest! Back for the second time on April 4th, EBB will be side by side with a ton of great games that I can't way to try!

An Adventure in the Making

Beyond that, I don't have too much to report right now. We're working hard to bring the world of JOR alive, and make Esoteric Ebb an incredible TTRPG-like experience, where you get to be the worst, most annoying player imaginable. It's gonna be great.

I'll leave you with a fun tidbit.

Esoteric Ebb takes place in a setting called JOR. I've gotten a lot of questions about all kinds of world lore and info that people ask about after finishing the demo, and one thing that's come up is the fact that the game takes place in March. Many question why I use the Gregorian calendar in such a otherwise strange fantasy setting, and the answer is: I don't. The following is an excerpt out of A Freestrider's Guide to Askan, by esteemed chronicler Prince Meriadoc Moonwatch:

As you can clearly see, EBB uses a regularly confusing fantasy calendar with a bunch of hard to pronounce nouns for its months, that also change depending on various factors within its constantly warping and hard-to-track time zones.

Except the third month of the year, which is just March. Thank you for your time.

Esoteric Ebb

Really excited for it

The writing is great, almost every conversation is interesting and funny .. this has serious potential to be really special .. i'm looking forward to it

blekaa94

24 May @ 4:04pm

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Exciting Esoteric Events

29 Jan

It's that time again. Time for an Esoteric Update.

I've been hard at work these last couple of weeks working on patches for the demo release (that went rather well, if I'm being honest), checking out the massive amount of feedback you've left me, and of course preparing for the rest of development.

Things are moving. 2024 will be an interesting year for Ebb. Starting off, I'm happy to announce two Steam events coming up!

Games in Sweden

Esoteric Ebb is featured in the Games in Sweden event, presented by Fireshine & Raw Fury! A brand new event, it's set to feature a bunch of amazing games. I want to give a shout-out to some of my local dev-neighbors featured in the event, whose projects you should absolutely check out right now (and wishlist!):

Fae & Fauna - a gorgeous open-world pet collector RPG. Just look at that trailer! I can highly recommend keeping an eye on it.
Odinfall - a thrilling viking-rogueish-topdown-shooter! I got the chance to try it last year, and it's a damn good game. Can't wait for it to come out!

The Storyteller's Festival

Esoteric Ebb is also featured in The Storytellers Festival 2024! Back again this year, on January 29th, the event will showcase a ton of narrative-focused games – which, if I had to guess, would probably be quite interesting to you if you're into Ebb. So check them out! Try out some demos!

Development Update

In the wake of this PC Gamer article (which is very well-written in my humble opinion) it turns out that a lot of other people also enjoyed playing as the world's worst cleric. In the last two weeks, Ebb has more than QUADRUPLED in wishlists and demo downloads. It's even inching closer every day to being in the top 500 wishlisted games on Steam.

So I'm pretty happy with the demo release overall. Thanks to everyone who's played the demo, left feedback on the Steam discussion, checked out the Discord, or just generally sent well-wishes on social media. I keep repeating myself, but I really do mean it when I say that 2024 will be a very interesting year for Esoteric Ebb.

-Christoffer Bodegård

Esoteric Ebb

Hotfix #4

19 Jan

Hey! Quick hotfix for some major reported bugs. Thanks to everyone posting in the Steam discussions and the Discord[discord.gg]. Your feedback is extremely valuable!

FIXES

Fixed a bug not letting your equipment alter your stats in dice rolls and passive checks.
Unlocking dice checks with Shard of Jor will not lock the dialog choices, so you can't softlock yourself by pressing numbers on your keyboard.
Made a the trap trigger once, instead of several times.
Removed the infinite snail loot stash exploit. The economy will recover.
Tons of spelling erors fixed. [sic]

OTHER CHANGES

UI changes, all visual.
Added a short rest button.
A walk marker, marking where you'll walk as you click.
Added the exhaustion system.

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Demo Test

- game felt stiff, alt-tabbing behaves ungraceful, switching to settings has a long black-screen, displaces overlay - not sure we need 360 Hz refresh rate here, however changing this to 60 Hz didn't work as intended, maybe a restart is required - settings and UI parts like to overlap, often functions aren't accessible because of that - performance issues, even at a mere 180 FPS coughs and stutters on high-end machine - saves that are given names lose the time/location stamp instead, can't have both - ...

PHOBIE

14 Jan @ 10:49am

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Background Confusion

The backgrounds "Azgalist Activist" and "Esoteric Expert" provide apparently the same bonuses, namely +2 DEX and +1 CON. Is this a bug or is this on purpose? Do they give me something else that's not mentioned during char creation?

Alfred Troll

14 Mar @ 10:16am

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Game struggles with specific aspect ratios

The main menu is a quite tedious to deal with when everything is located in the right corner instead of the middle (as games usually do) The gameplay itself is fine as seen in the two first screenshots https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3146685258 https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3146685273 https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3146680654 https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3146680640 https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/file...

26 Jan @ 7:03am

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I don't think there should be voice acting

It seems like voice acting adds a lot of work without much benefit. VA also quickly reveals budget/coaching issues. The game already has a lot of cool things going on. I would honestly rather time and money be spent touching up the writing, artwork, soundtrack, or ambient sounds. If the developer is looking to trim their workload VA is something I'd vote to get rid of. Maybe if the game does well, it can have a free update like Disco Elysium for some VA, but I don't think it's necessary for the game -- ...

Ambassador of Benevolence

15 Jan @ 10:31am

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