But there's a long way to go till completion

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Earlier this month, the former Disco Elysium developers of worker co-operative studio Summer Eternal sent me a 500-page anthology describing their new game Red Rooster. It's a 3D, real-time, third-person RPG you could broadly style as a spiritual Disco successor, working in the tradition of Planescape: Torment and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines , but which also owes much inspiration to Baldur's Gate 3 and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic . It takes place in a magic realist, "our-world-adjacent", mightily flammable and divided river city called Arta-Tantor, created with Unreal Engine and housing a "physics-powered sandbox of objects you can individually move, manipulate – and burn."

Here, you will live out the story of Redrick Roost, a convict serving a life sentence after accidentally rendering thousands of people catatonic by means of an "auto-meditation" headset.…