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Triple Click

Esoteric Ebb Is D&D Meets Disco Elysium

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Arts, Kirk Hamilton, Video Games, Jason Schreier, Technology, Maddy Myers, Society & Culture

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Esoteric Ebb: bad name, great game. Jason, Kirk, and Maddy dive into this new Disco-like where you play as a cleric tasked with investigating the explosion of a tea shop in a fantasy world where the voices in your head are D&D attributes. It's a lot of fun.

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0:00.0

I love a role-playing game with meaningful choices or memorable characters, but what I really love is a protagonist who can get so embarrassed it literally kills him.

0:12.8

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.

0:15.5

This week we're talking about the delightful new role-playing game, Esoteric Eb, a political parable that that for all its clear echoes of disco Elysium is very much its own thing.

0:25.4

Let's get into it.

0:30.6

I'm Kirk Hamilton.

0:32.1

I'm Maddie Myers.

0:33.3

And I'm Jason Trier.

0:34.3

Hello.

0:34.9

Hello, my friends.

0:36.8

It's good to see you both. As always, it's true. It's

0:40.3

lovely. It is lovely. I'm so glad that I get to see my two gamer friends, my two lowercase G gamer friends each week.

0:49.3

And a big reason for that is thanks to all of you out there who support triple click by being members

0:54.8

of maximum fun. Maximum Fun, of course, our wonderful network, a worker-owned network that

1:02.3

supports many great podcasts, including Triple Click, and you can become a member by going to

1:06.9

Maximumfund.org slash join. That is where you can join the network, become a member,

1:12.2

and if you become a member, you get access to all kinds of bonus episodes from every

1:16.7

maximum fun show, including triple click. We have recorded 60-some bonus episodes, most

1:22.5

recently talking about the King of Kong, a fistful of quarters, a really fun 2007 documentary that we watched.

1:29.3

That kind of dovetailed with our episode on Indie Game, The Movie, another bonus episode.

1:34.3

So we're forming a little bit of a narrative here with some of the documentaries that we watch.

1:39.3

And this month we'll be talking about Resident Evil Requiem with full spoilers.

1:43.3

That'll be coming out pretty soon in the bonus feed.

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