Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
At this point everyone should be familiar with this game, but if you’re not then this is the short brief: it is essentially an interactive novel, and it has the best writing in any videogame bar none. It’s also voice acted to perfection (with one exception). It encourages you to explore its dialogue options, and it pioneered a “fail-forward” design philosophy where failing skill checks not only still can progress the story, but are often more interesting or even advantageous than succeeding. It’s the best and most meaningful experience I’ve had playing a video game (if you allow it to count as a video game), and is maybe the best example I can think of for “videogames are art”.
Some people will argue that you should pirate it since at this point I believe almost everyone who actually worked on DE has left ZA/UM, but I think buying it heavily discounted to have in your library is perfectly fine.
Recommended to anyone who enjoys reading novels, just remember: it’s barely a game. Treat it like a good book.
At this point everyone should be familiar with this game, but if you’re not then this is the short brief: it is essentially an interactive novel, and it has the best writing in any videogame bar none. It’s also voice acted to perfection (with one exception). It encourages you to explore its dialogue options, and it pioneered a “fail-forward” design philosophy where failing skill checks not only still can progress the story, but are often more interesting or even advantageous than succeeding. It’s the best and most meaningful experience I’ve had playing a video game (if you allow it to count as a video game), and is maybe the best example I can think of for “videogames are art”.
Some people will argue that you should pirate it since at this point I believe almost everyone who actually worked on DE has left ZA/UM, but I think buying it heavily discounted to have in your library is perfectly fine.
Recommended to anyone who enjoys reading novels, just remember: it’s barely a game. Treat it like a good book.