Disco Elysium Reviews

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6 / 10.0
Nov 6, 2019

I fairly enjoyed Disco Elysium. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very impressive game in its deep approach to role-playing but I found it extremely text-heavy and with no combat, was for me at times quite mundane. Disco Elysium is a very well written RPG, with deep conversations and an intriguing city that will make you want to make sure you are constantly on top of all things regarding your investigation. Whether that be talking and then re-talking to characters to see if you’ve unlocked some new dialogue to extend the investigation, or whether you’re constantly roaming around Revachol making sure you haven’t missed out on any new areas to look into, I just felt it was a lot of slow grinding and to bridge that with a bit of an un-motivating story, it didn’t keep me wanting to play all the time. Politics play a huge part in the story and I kind of got the feeling that as we have enough politics in the world right now what with BREXIT, that having it within Disco Elysium it’s got on my nerves a little. I am making Disco Elysium sound like a chore of a game, but I was, for the most part, enjoying it. Disco Elysium is currently £34.99 on Steam. I am awarding Disco Elysium a Thumb Culture Silver Award!

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
7 / 10
Oct 21, 2019

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.

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7.5 / 10.0
Oct 21, 2019

Disco Elysium is an intelligent game with lots to say, but struggles with its tone while saying it.

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Nov 5, 2019

Disco Elysium deserves applause for having a singular vision and generally bringing it to fruition through its art, writing, setting, characters and gameplay mechanics which suggest the heyday of classic isometric RPGs.

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Oct 20, 2019

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.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 31, 2019

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.

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84 / 100
Nov 12, 2019

Disco Elysium is an experience that other developers will be hurrying to unpack so they can try to steal some of its magic. It's been a long time since a video game story has gotten its hooks into me quite as this one has. Despite some shortcomings, I'll be remembering the characters and moments from this adventure for years to come.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 24, 2019

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.

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Fextralife
Castielle
Top Critic
9 / 10
Oct 14, 2019

Disco Elysium is certainly not a game for those that are faint of heart, but if you have a sense of humor, and you're looking for a breath of fresh air then Disco Elysium is a must buy game. If it doesn't make you laugh out loud a time or three, I'll ride the Cock Carousel.

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8.5 / 10.0
Nov 5, 2019

Disco Elysium is one of the most interesting games we've seen in decades in terms of its themes and writing. A conversation heavy investigative RPG that leans very heavily on the genre's pen and paper roots. We've not seen this type of RPG in quite some time, and certainly not one as well executed as this. If you like your RPG's densely worded I think you'll find a lot to like here.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 17, 2019

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

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 21, 2019

An excellent role-playing game that will delight lovers of the genre but does not serve as an entrance for new players.

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8.5 / 10.0
Nov 8, 2019

The heart and soul of Disco Elysium is stumbling through success, which has a certain charm to it. Sometimes that road is bumpy and restricted, but the fluff behind those bumps is at least interesting.

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90 / 100
Nov 25, 2019

Disco Elysium is one of the best games I have ever played and is most definitely my favourite 2019 RPG. If you’re looking for a game that will humour you with an amazing narrative for at least 20 hours, this is the game. For those of you who don’t like reading a lot of text in video games and prefer combat over conversations, I would advise looking elsewhere. Disco Elysium has enough words to fill out at least a few thick books, and it’s worth more than a gloss-over or two.

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9 / 10.0
Dec 24, 2019

Overall , while paying respects to gaming’s founding fathers in familiar yet polished gameplay, Disco Elysium paves its own path. While the controls sometimes feel lacking, it is the narrative heart and aesthetics that truly shine to an exemplary level.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2019

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.

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90%
Dec 3, 2019

Disco Elysium is an unconventional and innovative isometric RPG, offering unusually complex mechanisms and great literary qualities in the vein of Planescape: Torment and Arcanum. It boasts strong atmosphere and attention to details that are sometimes overlooked by the larger videogame developers.

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4.5 / 5.0
Nov 22, 2019

Developer ZA/UM succeeded in making a game where progress isn’t tied to the defeat of, say, four hundred rats in a sewer, but to thoughtfully engaging with the world and characters it has to offer.

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Oyungezer Online
Can Arabacı
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Oct 22, 2019

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.

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9 / 10.0
Dec 2, 2019

Disco Elysium is an RPG where you play as an amnesiac cop investigating a murder. Thanks to its writing and emphasis on freedom, it's unlike any other RPG out there.

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