"In the dark times, should the stars also go out?"— Steban, The Student CommunistBooks echoing the ideas of Disco Elysium, Planescape Torment, Esoteric Ebb, and similar games. Moral and political complexity, grappling with wanting a better world clashing with the rank and evil desires of Capital, unnerving otherworldliness, and being a really shitty detective who pulls through in the end through the power of sheer stubbornness and this silly hat I found. This isn't a list of DE inspirations because that already exists.