Disco Elysium

A murder mystery set in a rich, fictional setting, Disco Elysium is told with sweeping profundity and hilarious absurdity. With no combat to impede story progression, this is a choice-driven role-playing adventure that deftly raises the bar of quality for the medium.

Disco Elysium is a very special RPG that most of your time will be spent on reading. It features a well-written detective story, various tricky skill trees, and memorable characters. This game might be the best one of its kind. But if you can't stand reading for a long time, just don't try it.

Disco Elysium is the triumphant return of the spirit of Planescape: Torment. A triumph for fans of interactive fiction and cRPGS, with a fascinating world and a exciting story that adapts to the character you want to be.

It’s not very often that a game of this calibre comes along. Disco Elysium is mad with psychedelic energy, unabashedly dramatic, and dangerously well-written. I wish, like the detective, I could forget all about Disco Elysium, if only to experience it again as if for the first time. It’s truly one of the greatest RPGs ever released.

Disco Elysium is an amazing RPG with a great detective story and a lot of freedom for the players to complete the adventure the way they want to.

A few aspects are a tad rigid, but the possibilities and options, especially in building and enhancing your unique character are something very special.

A fiercely original take on traditional computer role-playing games that often seems unrefined and self-indulgent but is still a welcome shake-up of genre norms.

Disco Elysium is one of the most extraordinary RPGs I’ve ever played. Instead of relying on combat or traditional progression systems, the game builds everything around dialogue, psychology, and player choice. The writing is simply phenomenal: sharp, philosophical, often hilarious, and constantly surprising. Every conversation feels meaningful, and the way the game turns your own thoughts into characters inside your head is pure genius. It’s not just a great RPG : it’s one of the most intelligent and daring narrative experiences the medium has produced.

I know most people adore this game and a bunch of people hate it, but I'm kind of in the middle. It's abundantly clear that it was crafted with a lot of passion and an insane amount of creativity, but it didn't really draw me in as much as I expected or hoped. It probably doesn't help that I'm more into action RPGs than tabletop RPGs, but... The writing is mostly top-notch, with really convincing and original dialogues, and a decent amount of positive wackiness. The dialogues between personality traits were a great addition too, both amusing and insightful. Above all, the huge number of dialogue options means that we can craft our relationships with other people in very specific ways, and every choice matters and has consequences. However, there is a strange emphasis on (fictional, though based on parallels to real-world) politics. This is fine by itself, but most of the time dialogue options are either very radical or completely ambivalent ("I have no opinion"), with nothing moderate. This broke immersion for me, because aside from my own rather moderate political opinions, I also feel like an amnesiac rediscovering the world wouldn't form radical opinions straight away. The personality/skill system was well-written, but to be fair was one of the main reasons why I couldn't really get into the game. Firstly, I constantly felt like the character *would* have some personality traits still inside him despite the amnesia, which he'd gradually rediscover, instead of going in a completely new direction, which to an extent broke the immersion for me as well. Secondly, the dice-based system meant that it was possible to pass almost every check if we tinker around with clothing and wait with levelling up skills until they're needed. This made it in my view neither realistic nor particularly engaging. Really pleasant and original visual design and fantastic story design, but the implementation isn't perfect. The game actually feels like it should be really inaccessible to a lot of people, so I find it puzzling that it's consistently rated as one of the top games of all time. I really tried, but I just can't see why.

Good things -a magnificent literary expression -impressive music -good characters -very good psychological dialogues -a ton of political and philosophical information Bad things -LGBT propaganda -unimpressive endings -very bad story -a story and characters that contain a lot of nonsense and illogicality -an overly utopian universe that will make one bored -elections don't actually have much impact

I played the game and it was definitely one of the worst and boring games I've ever seen and I deleted it. It's not a game, it's more like an e-book. First of all, this is not an open world game. I have no idea how it can be marketed like this, have the makers ever seen an open world game? The NPCs do nothing but sleep at night and the world is a small and frankly empty map. It's static and dead and never changes. It's not even a world, let alone an open world. It's not a real RPG either. Yes, you have stats and inventory and dice rolls, but that's it. Also, these are just game mechanics, there's a skill tree and inventory like in a lot of games, but they don't make a game an RPG game, and there's no real choice, because the whole difference is tied to dialog options, which you'll click on anyway, further destroying the role-playing part, and for a lot of things, choosing to do something will actually be a dice roll, and the mechanics of retrying the roll are overly complicated and too overwhelming to take the time. No matter what you do, you'll be dragged towards a single ending, which makes sense since it's a murder mystery, but as a player you have no choice, the only real choice is at the character creation screen, and from that point on it's pretty much set how you're going to play the next 30-40 hours of the game, which is filled with dialog just to drag it out. Yes, you can click on options in dialog windows, but the game will decide for you whether that happens or not, and it will mostly depend on your character's stats and some modifiers. Yes, again, it's an RPG mechanic, but as a player, you don't really get to choose anything or do anything. An example **** where your choices really matter would be Detroit Become Human. Or even Witcher 3. Disco Elysium is nowhere near that level, Detroit is already not an RPG game, Witcher 3 is not a pure RPG, but supposedly Disco Elysium was marketed as open world and a pure RPG, but it's not even half as successful as those games. In short, Disco Elysium is not a game to be played even if it's free. I never understood what they liked about this game. It is one of the most overrated games of recent years.

The most pretentious game I've ever played. You're hooked for about 3-5 hours until you realize just how bored you are. Your "decisions" are cosmetic and have no impact to the base plot and thus are irrelevant. At one point, I died from a heart attack after kicking something. Was this meant to be funny? Or is the game just, that, stupid? Your answer will tell you whether or not you will like this game.