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.
Before getting into its wider context and a retread of the ZA/UM saga so far, let's break down the game itself: It's not gacha microtransaction Disco. ZA/UM may have an adversarial relationship with its game's own fans, but I don't know if even the most cynical, 2011 EA-brained composite of the worst publishing exec imaginable could have been that out of touch. It's set to be ad-free, on the Google Play Store (not the Apple App Store as of yet), and will offer two free chapters as a demo.
