Disco Elysium News

Would-be Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift morphs from an isometric RPG into a third-person ski resort murder mystery

Dark Math Games, one of the multiple studios staffed by former Disco Elysium developers to pop up and announce a very Disco Elysiumy RPG last year, have given their game a revamp. XXX Nightshift is now called Tangerine Antarctic, with the switch also bringing a shift from isometric perspective to third-person.

If you missed the recent flourishing of Disco spiritual successors created by ex-ZA/UMers, the others include Longdue's RPG Hopetown and Summer Eternal's mystery project. Meanwhile, Disco writer Robert Kurvitz and artist Aleksander Rostov are making something for a studio called Red Info, and ZA/UM themselves are working on a new CRPG called Zero Parades. It's all very easy to keep track of.

Remember the spy-themed game ZA/UM have settled into making after all the Disco Elysium drama? Well, unless they've got another espionagey cRPG in the works, Project C4 has gotten a new name in a cameo at Gamescom Opening Night Live. It now seemingly goes by Zero Parades.

Yep, amid the waves of spiritual successors, after all the controversy around the exits of key team members and cancellations of Discoey things, this is the thing those who remain at the studio have been working on. It looks and sounds very Disco Elysiumy.

There are few games that live in my head rent-free. I often think about Before Your Eyes, a tear-jerking narrative adventure played entirely by blinking. Citizen Sleeper also pops into my head relatively regularly. And then there's Disco Elysium. I've run out of superlatives for Studio ZA/UM's detective RPG masterpiece, but the game has been marred in recent years by explosive divisions within the development team, which has led to the original creators leaving the studio. The true story is far more complex and much of it likely hidden from the public, but, as a result, the Disco Elysium mobile port- which released today with little fanfare - has been met with derision.

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The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume

In a surprise appearance alongside UK indie band and Disco Elysium composers Sea Power, voice actor and musician Mikee W. Goodman donned the green jacket and flared trousers of Disco Elysium protagonist Harry Du Bois to belt out a rendition of "The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns." The melancholy song is the subject of Disco's memorable and much-loved karaoke sidequest...
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