{"id":1549531,"date":"2026-04-10T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HWjZgWAti8WMFdHaKWHG2T"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:45:02","slug":"esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Esoteric Ebb&#8217;s creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that&#8217;s fine by him: &#8216;You&#8217;ve got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I&#8217;m fairly completionist with my RPGs: I only just beat New Vegas for the first time after 300 hours, 15 years, and I don&#8217;t know how many abortive playthroughs because I refuse to wrap one up until I&#8217;ve done <em>everything<\/em>\u2060\u2014and I often get tired or distracted before I can finish <em>everything<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I thought I did a pretty good job <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/esoteric-ebb-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">clearing out Esoteric Ebb<\/a>, our running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/its-only-march-but-im-calling-it-esoteric-ebb-is-2026s-best-rpg-and-the-first-worthy-successor-to-disco-elysium\/\" target=\"_blank\">contender for RPG of the year<\/a>, then I talked to Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd, the guy who made it. <strong>Spoilers for Esoteric Ebb below<\/strong>, but devoid of context they&#8217;re pretty, well, <em>esoteric.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over our conversation, Bodeg\u00e5rd rattled off a litany of items, places, even a full character class I&#8217;d missed in his game, an RPG I luxuriated in for 26 hours. I even went back through some of the map before the point of no return, scouring Tolstad for clues. <\/p>\n<p>My consolation, and part of Esoteric Ebb&#8217;s magic, was that I managed to dig up an extremely hidden scene that even eluded one of Bodeg\u00e5rd&#8217;s playtesters\u2060\u2014no two runs will be the same, but not because of mutually exclusive content. You just didn&#8217;t find it. As we talked, Bodeg\u00e5rd kept mentioning characters and places that I would&#8217;ve assumed he was making up on the spot, had he not created the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Did you find Lord Gorm&#8217;s stash?&#8221; <em>No, I did not.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Did you find the giant dragon skull?&#8221; <em>I did not find the giant dragon skull.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Did you find the Living Library?&#8221; <em>The hell do you mean, &#8220;Living Library?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m assuming you didn&#8217;t fight Visken&#8221; <em>You&#8217;re assuming right.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;So you can meet up with him and his helpers at midnight and either swear an oath or fight him.&#8221; <em>Oh, that clears things up<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Did you find a little goblin that jumps out of the eye and then it starts to scream at you and uses telekinesis to steal the key? The magical key that you get.&#8221; <em>I honestly can&#8217;t tell if he was messing with me on this one or not.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;re always a Cleric in Esoteric Ebb, but there are five additional D&#038;D classes you can choose to align with instead, and the full spread of six corresponds to the six attributes\u2060\u2014Cleric for Strength, Rogue for Dexterity, etc. I assumed the Charisma class I missed was Warlock, but nope! I could have been a Bard. &#8220;You can go around in every single dialog in the entire game,&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd. &#8220;You can go around and say, &#8216;Hello, I am the Dancing Bard.'&#8221; That <em>rules. <\/em>I had no idea.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2tWaBZKdHV4jLFNDg43vuM\" name=\"20260302114529_1\" alt=\"Esoteric Ebb character sheet and inventory\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was a &#8220;Dick-Ass Rogue,&#8221; by the game&#8217;s parlance, but I was neither Dick nor Ass <em>enough<\/em>. &#8220;By the way,&#8221; Bodeg\u00e5rd mentioned. &#8220;You can get the title &#8216;Dick-Ass Rogue&#8217; on your character sheet if you steal enough stuff.&#8221; I should have worked over that merchant&#8217;s shop, but she was just so nice.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this encounter with a mean elf that I won&#8217;t go into too much detail about. Suffice to say he&#8217;s kind of a jerk\u2060\u2014classic elf, am I right? I kept my best poker face talking to him, maybe passed a dialogue check, and he went on his merry way. &#8220;He&#8217;s basically a small boss,&#8221; Bodeg\u00e5rd revealed. &#8220;You can wrestle him and\u2060\u2014spoilers\u2060\u2014you can rip off his shoes. He has very nice shoes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Man, what did I even <em>do<\/em> in this game? Bodeg\u00e5rd also revealed one creative regret about Esoteric Ebb while discussing this jerk elf: &#8220;Internally [in the files], my main 3D guy at Gibbet Games, [Jonathan Nilsson], he called them &#8216;Air Elronds.&#8217; I couldn&#8217;t do it in the game because it&#8217;s such an overt reference, which I&#8217;m so sad about. But it&#8217;s still in the files.&#8221; The world needed Air Elronds.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"missing-out\">Missing out<\/h2>\n<p>My main feeling on hearing about everything I missed in Esoteric Ebb? Pure joy. That&#8217;s peak RPG to me, having what felt like a definitive, completionist-ish playthrough, then finding out I missed half the damn game. And not from a mutually exclusive choices perspective, either, like needing to replay The Witcher 2 to see the version of chapter two you didn&#8217;t get. According to Bodeg\u00e5rd, it&#8217;s possible to get every achievement in Esoteric Ebb in a single playthrough\u2060\u2014it&#8217;s just challenging, and an extreme improbability your first time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vd6jEfeSgCcWJBTQgjNyJ6\" name=\"20260302130033_1\" alt=\"Esoteric Ebb screenshot showing characters amid ruins and mushrooms\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger-1.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be completionists,&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd. &#8220;You can 100% it basically on a single playthrough. That&#8217;s perfectly fine. Same with achievements. I wanted to design it that way. But a normal playthrough should not be 40-50 hours of doing everything. It should be 10 to 20, maybe 30 at most, depending on how fast you read and you should miss about 60% to 40% of the game&#8217;s content. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that going in, which is a strange thing to say. I write 700,000 words and then I&#8217;m expecting most of it to not be seen on a normal playthrough, but that&#8217;s what makes it fun. You&#8217;ve got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger than what you experienced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bodeg\u00e5rd argued that this is the foundation of a game with legs, one where you&#8217;d compare notes with a friend after playing and be blown away by the depth of the world. When I compared it to all the hidden stuff in Elden Ring, the side stories and secret areas that could have made it a playground legend in a pre-internet age, he said that was the exact sort of magic he was trying to capture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I call it the &#8216;illusionary wall of agency,'&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd, &#8220;Wherein, if you offer enough choices, and you have enough stuff that [the player] could miss, and then they realize that they [missed it], they&#8217;re going to think that the game is infinite \u2026 There&#8217;s a list of stuff you can do. You can 100% it, but if you missed 20%, it might feel like you missed 90%, and that makes the game feel larger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"b55debbe-7f7f-4323-b777-175c265fe8b0\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"b55debbe-7f7f-4323-b777-175c265fe8b0\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fairly completionist with my RPGs: I only just beat New Vegas for the first time after 300 hours, 15 years, and I don&#8217;t know how many abortive playthroughs because I refuse to wrap one up until I&#8217;ve done everything\u2060\u2014and I often get tired or distracted before I can finish everything. I thought I did a pretty good job clearing out Esoteric Ebb, our running contender for RPG of the year, then I talked to Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd, the guy who made it. Spoilers for Esoteric Ebb below, but devoid of context they&#8217;re pretty, well, esoteric. Over our conversation, Bodeg\u00e5rd rattled off a litany of items, places, even a full character class I&#8217;d missed in his game, an RPG I luxuriated in for 26 hours. 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