
Disco Elysium stands out as one of the best Adventure/RPG titles in recent memory.
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Verdict
93%
Steam
89
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (93% positive from 124K reviews)
Healthy player count of 1,120 concurrent
Compelling narrative and story
Standout indie gem
No significant drawbacks reported
Disco Elysium is a 2019 role-playing video game developed and published by ZA/UM. The game was written and designed by a team led by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and executive producer Kaur Kender, featuring an art style based on oil-painting and music by the English band Sea Power. The game was released for Windows in October 2019 and macOS in April 2020. 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. In August 2025, the game was ported for Android.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 6d ago
[Logic] This game is objectively good. [Suggestion] You should leave a review so others will play, share your experience. [Empathy] Wait... What about the devs? Shouldn't people know...? [Rhetoric] Yes, this does have implications. [Visual Calculus] Outside investment overthrew the company and fired the original creators, sealing off the IP of "Disco Elysium" from it's original creators in the process [Inland Empire] Stories forever untold, hidden in the Pale... [Authority] WE MUST TELL THE PLAYERS! [Drama] Let's embelish it! They'd eat that up. [Half Light] I LIKE IT! We'll tear ZA/UM to SHREDS. [Pain Threshold] but wait! must we destroy our own experience with this pain? [Volition] No we must not. What's done is done, and you have no control over anything except your experience. Let's start there and move into the light. [Electrochemistry] Yea yea, forget all that! Let's have some FUN BABBYYYYYY!!! [Interfacing] A talkative skill tree... [Perception] Small floating details... [Encyclopedia] A world of betrayals... [Endurance] There's more, you must keep on typing. [Shivers] The total immersion into Revachol... [Savoir Faire] The sheer f****ng coolness of being a stone cold disco devil. [Composure] Calm yourself. You have them convinced, or they wouldn't have read this far. This is the final blow. [Conceptzualization] This game is a piece of art, stemming from the collective minds of many, stolen by the greed of few. Paradoxically, the political lessons covertly placed in the game mirror it's grim studios reality. This unforunate prediction of it's own future almost makes it more beautiful in it's wake. If, and only if it's conveient, bootleg this game. It will add a poetic justice to an already brilliant poem. Otherwise, enjoy a twisting and crooked path in a semi-supranatural, hangover of a world. Praise be to her Innocence, Dolores Dei.
Great game, bad company, don't give ZA/UM a cent, or even think about buying the next game that's suppose to come out, gonna be a lifeless husk against the story writing in this game.
I´m a real life drunk communist. I am the Detective, and the Detective is me. (♥♥♥♥ the publishers for stealing the game from the creators, pirate the game)
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