I’ve only played one table-top RPG session in my life, and it didn’t go great. Despite the rude DM and a one-shot that haunts me to this day, I’m still enamoured by video games that so faithfully tap ...

The game is basically Disco Elysium but inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s a lot of fun. The game is basically Disco Elysium but inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s a lot of fun. is a ...

Industrial/EBM greats Nitzer Ebb have announced a US tour which will be their first coast-to-coast trek here since the death of Douglas McCarthy last year. Dates begin August 21 in Ferndale, MI and ...

Weaving Terry Pratchett, Terry Gilliam and more, Esoteric Ebb is a comedic D&D adventure where a waylaid Cleric is tasked with solving a crime, days before the world's first election. Nevertheless, I ...

Taylor Rioux is a writer and critic based in Minnesota. He has been writing professionally about games since 2024, after starting the website JetsonPlaysGames, which covers both video games and ...

Since 1975, video games have been trying to replicate the experience of playing the world’s most famous tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. The actual pen-and-paper game hadn’t been out ...

Shane Limbaugh is a Contributor at DualShockers who began covering games professionally in 2025. A longtime gamer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Design and Criticism, Shane brings a design-focused ...

Players, after a comprehensive character building session, start Esoteric Ebb as The Cleric. They were assigned to investigate The Tea Shop that Blew Up. But this wasn’t a simple act of vandalism ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Many video games have tried to grasp what makes TTRPGs like Dungeons & ...

In one of Esoteric Ebb’s chambers lies a chest. Above it, a sign: “Not a mimic.” Snell, your goblin companion, deduces the most obvious outcome: The sign is the work of some prankster who’s hoping to ...

Esoteric Ebb is available now on Steam. Watch the Esoteric Ebb launch trailer for this fantasy TTRPG-turned-CRPG. In Esoteric Ebb, you play as the Cleric, one of many menial laborers of the city of ...

Shane Limbaugh is a Contributor at DualShockers who began covering games professionally in 2025. A longtime gamer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Design and Criticism, Shane brings a design-focused ...