Disco Elysium Reviews
Disco Elysium is an intelligent game with lots to say, but struggles with its tone while saying it.
Now we know that the cigarettes don't need fire to get lit.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Are you bored of all computer RPGs motives? Play Disco Elysium! It's the most fresh game in many recent years. At the first glance it looks like any other classic izometric RPG but this piece of art from estonian ZA/UM will definatelly be suprising you again and again. In here you literally play as a bum looking drunked detective who has overcomplicating case to solve. Will you be drinking more or become abstinent? Which politic option will you choose? Everything is to you to decide! Im sure that uniqe world and very good writing will put Disco Elysium in cult position shoulder to shoulder with best examples of cRPGs like Planescape Torment.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Disco Elysium describes itself as a “groundbreaking open-world role-playing game,” which is a slightly misleading way of describing a game that feels like the gamebook lovechild of Planescape: Torment and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Its similarity to those classics is its greatest strength, though, keeping it afloat amid an endless tide of irrelevant factoids and a twin pair of mysteries that slowly build up the intrigue, only to fizzle out at the very end in a bizarrely unsatisfying way.
Disco Elysium doesn’t feel like a game, but then it doesn’t really feel like a movie or a book either. It’s hard to pin down exactly what it is, but I love it and I can’t get enough of it.
Literature-centric game, full of unexpected references and non-standard accents. Detective noir meets deep and charming old-school RPG and going to real masterpiece
Review in Russian | Read full review
If you love RPGs, reading or fancy something different - and I mean really damn different - then track down Disco Elysium.
The game offers one of the most fascinating, unique, and fulfilling portrayals of the human mind.
A verbose and rich psychological roleplaying game that doesn't offer enough choice in the role you play.
Over the length of this very long game you’ll travel back and forth across the streets of Revachol, repeatedly interviewing and following up with people. If you’re not averse to reading loads of text that is often funny and given to riffing on different ideologies, it can be an easy rhythm to get into. Don’t dawdle. Go ahead, run toward the wild side.
I’m going to tell you if you are a fan of the CRPG genre, with a heavy focus on storytelling, replayability, and roleplay – buy this game. You don’t need anything else, don’t watch videos, don’t read reviews, just go buy it. It’ll be the best 45.49 Cannuck bucks you ever spent.
Disco Elysium is a noir cRPG made of the dream-stuff: it's complex, politically involved and a true piece of art. Sometime it can be slow, but it's a wonderful trip.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Occasionally obtuse and slow, Disco Elysium excels at delivering one of the best role-playing game experiences in a very long time with exceptional writing, world building and mechanical immersion
Disco Elysium wants to get you in touch with the voices in your head. This detective RPG calls back to the old Infinity Engine games like Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate, but it put a unique spin on everything. With a beautiful oil painting aesthetic, it also features a system that treats your skill like additional party members, each with their own opinions on your actions. Ultimately, every lengthy run-though of Disco Elysium is about the consequences of your choices and actions, adding up to some fantastic stories. A great, surprising entry into RPG canon.
Disco Elysium is a deep, sharply written, unique blend of noir-detective fiction and traditional pen-and-paper RPGs.
A masterpiece, but flawed, and proof positive that if ZA/UM can do flawed masterpiece for their first outing, they might already be chipping away the flaws in time for their next.
I've never laughed this much while playing a game. Well-read, nihilistic, dark, and intellectual, Disco Elysium is like your favorite poli-sci professor huffed paint and ran naked through the quad.
An irresponsibly deep detective RPG that lets you be any kind of detective you want. Even a bad one.
It's impossible not to fall for Disco Elysium, from its intriguing murder detective work to the world it depicts, not to mention the voices inside your own head. It's an experience that could easily make the top of some Game of Year lists and for good reason.
Disco Elysium is an unforgettable journey that shouldn’t just be experienced by all RPG fans, but by anyone who has ever played a videogame.