Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking open world role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being. Unprecedented freedom of choice. Intimidate, sweet-talk, resort to violence, write poetry, sing karaoke, dance like a beast or solve the meaning of life. Disco Elysium is the most faithful representation of desktop role playing ever attempted in video games. Countless tools for role playing. Mix and match from 24 wildly different skills. Develop a personal style with 80 clothes items. Wield 14 tools from guns to flashlights to a boombox, or pour yourself a cocktail of 6 different psychoactive substances. Develop your character even further with 60 wild thoughts to think – with the detective's Thought Cabinet. A revolutionary dialogue system with unforgettable characters. The world is alive with real people, not extras. Play them against each other, try to help them, or fall hopelessly in love. Disco Elysium's revolutionary dialogue system, with partially voiced characters, lets you do almost anything.
Game Discussion
Steam User 324
ZAUM is run by a scumbag of a CEO whom i wish all the worst, but the game itself was made by talented and passionate people whole pour their souls and love into it and it shows
Steam User 156
A real masterpiece, a true work of art we will never see again due to some slimy business men taking over the studio. The game is worth experiencing, without a doubt, but do not give your money to these thieves who hijacked the studio.
Steam User 715
Great game, sail the seas. The people who actually made this game got pushed out. This game was stolen from the creators, don't buy it and help fund their theft. Find different ways to experience it
Steam User 123
"the funk soul brother at the back of his head has gone dark. Forever."
It is, without a doubt, a unique and extraordinary experience that has changed my life and my outlook on it. Now, moving on to the game, what an incomparable experience! "Disco Elysium" is more than a video game; it is a form of art that changes the way you see politics. In real life, you can say whatever nonsense you want, and nothing happens, but here, every decision you make has consequences. It's like having a philosophical debate in a bar, except instead of discussing, you end up kicking inanimate objects, and you feel like a damn monster for doing so.
This game left my mind reeling, and I can't fully explain what it made me feel. It not only offers a fascinating universe filled with multiple plots and charismatic characters, but it also transforms how we see the consequences of our ideas. If reading a book is anything like this, I should definitely give it a try.
Warning: Before diving into "Disco Elysium," I advise you to pirate the game through third-party sites. After all, the bastards at ZA/UM stole the IP, and the real creators don’t see a single cent from the sales. Apparently, there’s financial crime behind all this, and they even kicked the original developers out of the studio. So, in honor of the revolution, down with the capitalist pigs!
QUALIFICATION
10/10 VOICES IN MY HEAD
Steam User 134
I downloaded this game expecting a Sherlock Holmes-esque mystery thriller. What I got was a lethal dose of human experience. Politics. Suffering. The detective work is a vessel facilitating intimacy and conversation. A nihilistic world, burning in the flames after leaping from the frying pan. At the epicentre of chaos; a man who has forgotten trauma, unwittingly using his condition to gaze at the world with a juvenile, somewhat healed perspective. A man vulnerable to proselytism from all angles. A man that can completely embody the choices you make as a player; a world that can echo these sentiments. Disco Elysium is incredible and I would recommend it to anyone who can withstand some reading.
PS: This review is solely in praise of the individual people who worked on Disco Elysium. Since its release ZA/UM has been wrung of its creative liberty by investors and greed. Acquire this game through alternate means, then praise the people that scroll by in the credits when you finally reach its conclusion.
Steam User 111
Disco Elysium feels terrifyingly real. It reminds you of the hard truth that existence can be a headache. Throughout your life, you're mostly sad and alone. You might feel like some of your memories are brutally unforgiving. Burdened by a world trying to tear you apart, you try to get by. Still, you always come back to the same old question: Why? What's the purpose of all this? And the game answers in all seriousness: "There is no purpose. You're all alone. Everything is insignificant. Just give up." It's the heavy truth handed to you by the game like a hard-to-swallow pill.
Of course, nobody can pinpoint what this game is mainly about. Psychology, the inner workings of our mind? Philosophy, the meaning of life? Finding your identity when you feel like you're all alone in the world? Politics and ideologies? The moral of this game can be interpreted in a lot of ways but I think there's an obvious message it's trying to convey: Being right doesn't exist. No matter what you think or do, it seems like everything is simply wrong. And when you try to choose a side or develop an opinion about something, the game critisizes you harshly. It defines you. But it also makes you change your outlook on life. You become more skeptical about yourself, making you question your beliefs. Although, in this game, even your own mind isn't a safe or trustworthy place. You can try to ignore your thoughts but they are too loud.
However, if you stop focusing on an end goal - in this case, why you came to Revachol in the first place - for even just a second, you can make living worthwhile and life beautiful. Explore yourself and get sidetracked from the main case, make the best moments by seeing what makes *you* feel like you. By having small conversations with the locals and paying attention to details you can truly enjoy life and come to a conclusion about your identity. In all honesty, solving the case might have been the worst part of the game because it ended it.
Steam User 402
Comrade,
Yet again, the owner class has co-opted their workers' art for their own financial gains. The great irony that such a fate has befallen this specific game and the work of our fellow comrades should not be lost on you. It is your duty to find this game on another platform that does not line the greedy capitalist pigs' pockets.