I lost two and a half hours of progress the first time Disco Elysium crashed on me. I remember staring at the save slots, my own bemused expression greeting me in my Steam Deck's reflection. It seemed to taunt me with a twisted promise: you can come back for more, but you'll have to do things all over again.
Instead, I quit the game for six months. The horrors of infrequent autosaves and a total lack of remembering to do so manually, paired with the purposely impenetrable nature of Disco Elysium's philosophical crypticism, filled me with rage. I also deeply enjoyed the game, despite how things sound – but Zero Parades fixes my biggest problems with it by far.
