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An Essay on Insipidity

"An Essay on Insipidity", also known as Essay I, is a purposely bad RTP-made game that aims to be a quick character study and observation of a poverty-living Honduran child named Ernesto, who uses RPG Maker to…

4 September 2020

An Essay on Insipidity is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Cats From The Underground, released 4 September 2020 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What An Essay on Insipidity is

An Essay on Insipidity is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Cats From The Underground and released in 2020. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RPG Maker MZ.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"An Essay on Insipidity", also known as Essay I, is a purposely bad RTP-made game that aims to be a quick character study and observation of a poverty-living Honduran child named Ernesto, who uses RPG Maker to make a game to try and cope with the harsh reality he lives in. The dialogue is a mishmash of broken to unintelligible English and Spanish.
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy.

What it launched against

An Essay on Insipidity launched on 4 September 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Mafia: Definitive Edition.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades, Mafia: Definitive Edition.

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When did An Essay on Insipidity come out?
An Essay on Insipidity was released on 4 September 2020 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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