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Disco Elysium had so much text it broke the branching narrative software: 'we were writing too much'

"Oh no, no one else writes things that long!"

PC Gamer

The Decade's Finest RPG Is Now A Fashion House Serving Looks

What drew me to Disco Elysium from the start was the fashion, when I saw someone wearing that very jacket. That was also the start of studio ZA/UM’s fashion-forward Atelier, headed by Kristiina Ago.

Inverse

Rue Valley is a time looping RPG that's best off leaning away from Disco Elysium comparisons, and getting Monkey Island with it instead

Indie Spotlight | Can you escape the valley?

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Rue Valley review

Narrative time loop RPG Rue Valley fails to do anything with its potent metaphor for depression.

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Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings'

The Workers' Alliance at ZA/UM was organized through the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain.

PC Gamer

Summer Eternal, one of the most exciting studios to come out of the Disco Elysium fallout, will announce its first game exclusively through 'the analog medium' of a vinyl record and a book of art, essays, and dev diaries

It looks sick.

PC Gamer

We finally saw ZA/UM's Zero Parades in action and even though it's extremely Disco Elysium, the protagonist couldn't be more different

It still can't shake the Disco Elysium comparisons though.

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The Disco Elysium spiritual successor rivalry gets even more confusing as one of the studios made of former ZA/UM devs change their new RPG's name and gameplay style

XXX Nightshift is now Tangerine Antarctic

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Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift is sick of your jokes about its name, announces it's called Tangerine Antarctic and it's a 3rd-person RPG now

Sure. Why not?

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Even in a year packed with great RPGs, you don't want to miss Disco Elysium-style time loop noir Rue Valley, which has a new trailer and a release date in November

Rue Valley looks like a winner.

PC Gamer

I'm relieved to see the Disco Elysium successor is just as strange and dark – I've had my fill of fantasy RPGs for the year

Opinion | There's more to RPGs than high fantasy – who knew?

GamesRadar

The new CRPG from the Disco Elysium studio actually looks kind of cool, but after a biblically messy breakup with the original devs it's hard to get invested

Is it too soon to hope?

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I've spent six hours exploring the Steam Summer Sale with our Games Editor, and these are the 10 best games on discount I'd recommend so far

Here's a list of the best Steam Summer Sale games of 2025 to pick up first

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

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns.

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Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals "key design tenet" mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: "Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful"

Interview with the designer of Disco Elysium's free tabletop RPG spiritual successor

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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

It's not an April Fool's joke, but you'll wish it was.

PC Gamer

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

Project C4 will challenge its predecessor on its own turf—will it really be worth the wait?

The Guardian - UK

‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

As they get ready to tour its mournful music, the band reflect on Disco Elysium, the video game whose soundtrack won them a Bafta – and plenty of new followers

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

Anything "Elysium" from ZA/UM is inherently fraught.

PC Gamer

After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor

I want to keep writing this sort of thing even less than you want to keep reading it.

GamesRadar

The battle to steal the Disco Elysium successor's spotlight continues as former and current ZA/UM devs reveal teasers for their new RPGs simultaneously

ZA/UM's new RPG is called Project C4

PC Gamer

D&D-skewering, Disco Elysium-inspired RPG Esoteric Ebb had me trying my best to be a cleric while my Intelligence stat kept telling me to become a wizard-king

D&D plus Disco, so kind of like a sillier Planescape: Torment.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call"

"If your 'spiritual successor' to Disco Elysium does not involve creator Robert Kurvitz, then save both of us some time"

GamesRadar

Disco Elysium lead says original Fallout is an RPG "that's almost Biblical in its annihilation," making "other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park"

The first Fallout showed "video games can be a total work of art"

PC Gamer

ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer

I'd write a strapline here, but the postman's arrived with my bag.

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