Are you talking about Infinity Engine inspired CRPGs in general? There's others, like Pillars of Eternity 1+2, Tyranny, Torment: Tides of Numenera (a spiritual sequel to P:T), Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader.
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Obsidian doesn't really make these anymore, but they were pretty good at it for a while. Larian and Owlcat are probably the biggest publishers of them.
If you're open to smaller scale projects with similar feel, there's stuff in the indie space, too - I'd point towards the Citizen Sleeper games and there's definitely some "Disco-likes" out or in development (like Lovely Lady RPG and Esoteric Ebb)
And if you want some other games with similar tone/vibe to P:T, I'll point you towards Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer expansion.
Edit: CW: these both have heavy writing influence from Chris Avellone, who has some allegations against him. They're interesting games, but I just want to extremely cautiously recommend them. Also, Obsidian is a Microsoft subsidiary and probably still on the BDS boycott.
Also the Alpha test for Owlcat's next port WH40k: Dark Heresy is out now with full release planned for December.
Let's be real, it won't be decently playable until Q3-4 2027 lol
i'd say numenera is the closest, as in, a walky talky kind of game
Its biggest problem is that it's just kinda mid 
that it is, pillars is probably closer writing-wise, i guess, but it's also a full ass rpg where the stats and equipment matter, and that feels like it's against the spirit of the games
edit: and yeah you can turn the difficulty down to it not matterting, but like, the game wasn't made for that; it was made so that combat is a big part of the content, at that point you might as well be reading a visual novel (which i highly encourage)
at that point you might as well be reading a visual novel (which i highly encourage)
Hell yeah 
That's also why in my self 
I suggested stuff like Citizen Sleeper. RPG adjacent game with lightweight rules. Dustpunk was another one with a steampunk communist revolution bent.
Dustpunk
The dev is a comrade, right?
I think so. They were on here a little while ago, but I'm struggling to find the post.
I liked the game, but the mechanics didn't have the same level of ludo-narritive synergy to me that the Citizen Sleeper games did. Granted, Dust Punk has a big part involving organizing a revolutionary movement and I'm a bad leftist IRL lol - the struggling to get by in Citizen Sleeper just felt more relatable to me.
all good recs, too!