Longdue has announced that Hopetown, its upcoming narrative-driven cRPG featuring several developers behind Disco Elysium, will receive a pre-alpha playable build within 90 days of its Kickstarter campaign ending. The early version will offer approximately five hours of gameplay, more than 300,000 words of dialogue, and an introduction to the game’s investigative mechanics. The playable will include the prologue, Chapter 1 of the main story, 10 side quests, eight interior locations, part of an explorable town, two recruitable companions, and 40 NPCs. Existing Kickstarter backers at the Builder and Visionary tiers as of October 15, 2026, are scheduled to receive…