Depersonalization is an RPG out of China that feels like it never stops getting deeper, once you figure out how to set it to English

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A sparkly anime lady, wreathed in magic.

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(Image credit: Microsoft)We’re checking out the hidden gems of Game Pass over the next few weeks, digging up all the obscure and esoteric games secreted away in our subscription and seeing how they play.

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We’re checking out the hidden gems of Game Pass over the next few weeks, digging up all the obscure and esoteric games secreted away in our subscription and seeing how they play.

You ever play one of those games that seems like it never stops revealing newstuff? New mechanics, new locations, new rabbits out of new hats? Baldur’s Gate 3 is probably the ur-example of that kind of thing in the past few years, but I’ve got one you might not have heard of to add to the list: Depersonalization, a Cthulhu-flavoured and tabletop-inspired RPG from MeowNature that just seems to keep unfolding the more you play it.

What’s it about? I’ll let the store page description do the talking: “Dice! Tabletop role-playing games! Cthulhu! Diverse story modules! Rich branching narratives! We are prisoners of fate, but sometimes we also roll the dice and create miracles!”

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Chatting with a man under the shade of a tree. Anan says “I don’t know why all the animals seem so hostile to me."

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Combat with a gang of rats.

None of which he remembers, mind you. This is a proper RPG, amnesiac protagonist and all, so actually piecing all this stuff together as a grown-up means a lot of investigation.

If that sounds like Disco Elysium to you, it does to me as well, right down to the bit where you get to decide just whatkindof a detective your charming bishonen protagonist is going to be. Almost no skill checks restrict you to single abilities. For instance, to eavesdrop on a conversation I could try to use my Observe skill, my Perception, or just rely on Luck, much in the same way that DE lets both a genius and meathead detective find their own paths through problems.

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Interacting with a rotary payphone.

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Standing in light shone through a stained glass window.

On the one hand, it kind of makes the entire thing feel even deeper and more beautiful than it already is. On the other, I had to work pretty hard to understand what was happening in a lot of scenes.

The good news is that the devs have heard our anglophone cries and promise a better, professional translation is close at hand, with a new batch of English writing for the game coming as soon as this month. You might want to wait for that, but honestly? I recommend firing it up—or its demo—right now anyway. Depersonalization is already a special, incredibly deep RPG even if I do have to re-read the odd line of dialogue a few times. If you want to dip a toe in yourself, you can find it onGame PassandSteam.

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