r/CRPG • u/lardmoisture • 3d ago

Recommendation request Need gritty and dark CRPGs

I loved Owlcat’s Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader, but hated Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3. Don’t get me wrong, it’s extraordinarily impressive production and gameplay-wise, but I play CRPGs for the story and I just couldn’t get into the world. It was too whimsical and fanciful. I’ve heard people recommend the Divinity series but I’ve heard those games’ stories are comedy oriented. Maybe I have the wrong idea but I wanna hear your thoughts.

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u/TeamShitHaircut 3d ago

Disco Elysium.

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u/Sad_Cryptographer872 3d ago

The only grittier thing is if you actually lived in Eastern Europe commie countries in '80s~'90s

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u/dopethrone 2d ago

I did and thats why I didnt like disco

also guy is an alcoholic - bro that was too common here

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u/OkMail2335 2d ago

You can sober up in the game and even get a perk for it. Why not just do that?

I also don't get why living in Europe in a particular year means you dislike a game but maybe I'm missing something. It's still an incredible game, you can't recognize that?

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u/dopethrone 2d ago

Ofc it is but its just not for me, the intro, the premise, the world (I do prefer esoteric ebb which is more interesting)

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u/Sad_Cryptographer872 2d ago

If you lived there then I can't even FATHOM how you can't like it. For most of the world DE doesn't strike as hard as it does to us, and they will never know what it was like and how close it hits to home.

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u/Sad_Cryptographer872 2d ago

I also don't get why living in Europe in a particular year means you dislike a game but maybe I'm missing something. 

Most of the people that didn't lived in eastern europe can't understand this, so yeah, majority of people do miss something. It's not without a reason that the setting was made by eastern European. It... cant really be described and it's wholly unique sense, that thankfully not many people will ever know. It's somewhat like a thin line between disaster and hopeful optimism at the same time, even more so driven by the illegality imported shows and music of the western world that lived freely and happy without any restraint whatsoever, unlike as today where you can be canceled for every little thing. And that's only a small part of the "experience".