Disco Elysium Reviews
Now we know that the cigarettes don't need fire to get lit.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Disco Elysium is an intelligent game with lots to say, but struggles with its tone while saying it.
You should just go and play Disco Elysium right now because someday you will wake up with cold sweat, feeling ashamed that you didn't feel the disco when it made a come back.
Review in Persian | Read full review
An excellent role-playing game that will delight lovers of the genre but does not serve as an entrance for new players.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
So deep, so well-written, so pleasant to watch, so funny and so dark, so clever, so free and replayable : for sure Disco Elysium is the kind of trip you will remember. One of the best RPG ever made.
Review in French | Read full review
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 an enthralling song of inner-struggle, tabletop role-playing, and mystery.
Disco Elysium's name will be frequently mentioned 10 years from now, as one of the most original and legendary RPG's. If you're not scared by lots and lots and lots of text, this is a must have game.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Wordy, involving and whip-smart, Disco Elysium is a tremendous achievement which deserves to be held up as the new template for story-driven RPGs.
An intense role-playing odyssey, despite some overstuffed writing, Disco Elysium is an experience that has to be played to be believed.
If you are a fan of RPGs and want to play something that mixes up the genre, I cannot recommend this game enough.
This is a weird, disjointed review, not spoiling anything and deliberately avoiding the details. Rightly so. I think Disco Elysium is an exceptional game but won’t resonate with action gamers or even RPG players who prefer more hands-on actions. You read a lot of text, there’s quite a bit of fluff, plenty of distractions and progression feels painfully slow at times. Yet, if you can dig those beats then your entire being becomes sucked into a whirlpool of depressive thought-provoking nonsense. Enlightening assessment of the sublime nature of human existence and the existentialism of a predetermined character. I love this game and all it purports to be even if inside I don’t always agree with its underlying message. It’s gratifying to play such a game where developers cleverly step outside comfort zones and the proverbial box.
Disco Elysium brings the promised RPG revolution, and you can be sure of that. The narrative is layered, complex and divided into two macro levels that analyze the story, the society of the setting and the delicate psychology of a destroyed mind, also leaving the player the task of building the interiority of the alter-ego in the way he prefers.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Disco Elysium is an impressive RPG that eschews combat for conversations and introduces an engaging world that rewards inquisitiveness.
Studio ZA/UM's first foray into video games is a fantastically adult piece that takes the established and perhaps tired tropes of moral choice and player agency in RPGs and turns them on their heads, twists them into unexpected new shapes, surprising and delighting as it does. Its mixture of melancholy, mystery, fantastical mundanity and internalised musing make for a unique and thought provoking experience.
Disco Elysium is an absolute triumph of character, narrative, and player choice. One of the most intoxicating and dazzlingly dense RPGs of its generation that deserves to be in the GOTY conversation.
This is great role playing game for crime story lovers. There is so much to read - but for some players there is too much reading.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Looking for something even weirder than Torment and with even more character customization options? Disco Elysium is RPG of the year. Hell, maybe even the decade.
Disco Elysium is a difficult game to describe, but it's easy to recommend. One of the most inventive games in recent memory, it's an often cynical, mean-spirited RPG that's nonetheless full of beauty and humanity. While its obsession with the nastier parts of the human psyche will definitely turn some people off, the depth of its story and systems reward a deep dive into the mire, as do its beautiful art and writing.
I loved it, though I barely understood much of it. It's a wild ride despite being mostly walls of text.