Gameplay screenshot showing conversations in white and choices in orange, atop the current scene the character is inĭisco Elysium is a role-playing video game that features an open world and dialogue-heavy gameplay mechanics.

A television series adaptation was announced in 2020. Disco Elysium won numerous awards for its narrative and art, while being named game of the year by several publications.

The game is based on a tabletop role-playing game setting that Kurvitz had previously created, with him forming ZA/UM in 2016 to work on the game. In addition, a system called the Thought Cabinet represents his other ideologies and personality traits, with players having the ability to freely support or suppress them. Instead, events are resolved through skill checks and dialogue trees via a system of 24 skills that represent different aspects of the protagonist, such as his perception and pain threshold. An expanded version of the game featuring full voice acting and new content, subtitled The Final Cut, was released for consoles in 2021, alongside a free update for the PC versions.ĭisco Elysium is a non-traditional role-playing game featuring no combat. Disco Elysium was released for Windows in October 2019 and macOS in April 2020. During the investigation, he comes to recall events about his own past as well as current forces trying to affect the city.

Inspired by Infinity Engine–era games, particularly Planescape: Torment, the game was written and designed by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and features a distinctive oil painting art style with music by the English band Sea Power.ĭisco Elysium takes place in a large city still recovering from a war decades prior to the game's start, with players taking the role of an amnesiac detective who has been tasked with solving a murder mystery. Disco Elysium is a 2019 role-playing video game by ZA/UM.

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