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Disco Elysium's spin-off Locust City was the story of two grotty children and a boxful of insects

It is time once again to shake our fists at the sky over the untimely, messy splintering of Disco Elysium as a cultural phenomenon. Yesterday, Youtuber Jamrock Hobo leaked a presentation for Locust City - An Elysium Story, an abandoned project that would have expanded the original RPG's detective odd-couple premise by having you control two returning characters simultaneously, each with their own furiously personified skill tree and Thought Cabinet of percolating ideas.

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You can get PC Gamer's longest-reigning Top 100 winner and enough branching narratives to keep you busy for the rest of the year for under $15




Disco Elysium is a real special game at PC Gamer—we gave the original 2019 release a score of 92, calling it "an irresponsibly deep detective RPG that lets you be any kind of detective you want." Then developer ZA/UM stepped it up a notch in 2021 with Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, adding full voice acting to its million-word script and somehow elevating an already stellar experience...
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UPDATE: Canceled Disco Elysium spin-off X7 would have been about Cuno and Cunoesse going on the run with a box of locusts, leaked internal presentation reveals

UPDATE (03/04/25, 9:00 AM GMT): ZA/UM has now issued a statement that it's confirmed to VG247 is a response to the YouTube video featuring the leaked X7 presentation.

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Details about the canceled Disco Elysium spin-off codenamed X7 have leaked, and it would have let us play as Cuno and Cunoesse




Earlier this year we found out about Project X7, a standalone Disco Elysium expansion canceled in February. At the same time ZA/UM laid off 24 employees, including Argo Tuulik, the final writer from the original game's credits remaining at the shell of the studio responsible for one of the greatest videogames of all time. It was, to put it lightly, a bummer...
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I've finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM's follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase




t this year's Game Developers Conference, I had a chance to see a first gameplay preview of Studio ZA/UM's RPG follow-up to Disco Elysium, codenamed C4, and speak to two developers on the project: writer Siim "Kosmos" Sinamäe, and artist/producer Ruudu Ulas...
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