Disco Elysium News

Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators

Today, Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM announced a "reimagining" of the groundbreaking CRPG for mobile devices. Instead of the original top-down perspective, this version of the game will rely on semi-animated frames of art from more cinematic angles⁠—like a hybrid of Myst and a visual novel...
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Beloved story RPG Disco Elysium is coming back, in a surprising new form

Disco Elysium has earned itself a wealth of plaudits, and with good reason. The narrative-led adventure RPG remains a profound achievement in the way it crafts an interweaving network of stats, decisions, and dialogue choices that come together to put your own unique spin on its detective tale. As numerous spiritual sequels shape up for release at other studios, many involving developers who worked on the original game, the new-look ZA/UM reveals that it's bringing Disco Elysium back in a brand-new, surprising form.

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Disco Elysium is being released on mobile because ZA/UM wants to, er, "captivate the TikTok user" by "creating an all new, deeply engaging form of entertainment"

You know Disco Elysium, that game that's arguably better known at this point for all the fallout at developer ZA/UM and beyond which followed its initial release, often proving as seriously concerning as it has strange?

t literally the exact same time that Disco Elysium-like RPG Hopetown⁠—which has its own issues, believe me⁠—released a new trailer, embattled Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM came in with the steel chair: A first teaser for its own follow-up game, codenamed project C4...
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Hopetown's latest ex-Disco Elysium recruit reveals he's "had to leave" another of the kinda Disco Elysium successor studios, but says it's on "friendly terms"

Earlier today, around the same time Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM announced its next game, one of the many would-be Disco spiritual successors in the works - Longdue - revealed the first teaser for its game and news of some new team members.