Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks

However, the surrealist elements are turned up. You'll be playing Redrick Roost, an inmate turned arson investigator—and instead of Kim Kitsuragi, you'll be getting "an opiate-dependent mathematician, Dr Astrid Albers, and a nunchaku-wielding truth-activist, the district bus driver Rico." God. We're so goddamn back.

The major point of divergence—aside from an emphasis on 3D physics, which cites "Larian's Divinity Engine games and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic" as an inspiration—is in its tone and theme. The site very plainly states that "this is not the 'end of history', but rather the 'beginning of the future' in the tripartite city of Arta-Tantor."

That "end of history" line feels like an indirect nod to Disco Elysium and the philosophical bedrock it was built on—the nihilistic representation of an end-point of societal evolution, represented, (as folks far more well-versed in this sort of thing have posited) in Disco Elysium by the Pale and the oppressive pressure of the Moralintern. …