Disco Elysium Reviews

Disco Elysium is ranked in the 100th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Daily Star
Dan Lipscombe
Top Critic
Oct 20, 2019

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.

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10 / 10.0
Oct 17, 2019

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.

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10 / 10.0
Oct 15, 2019

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.

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Saudi Gamer
Top Critic
10 / 10
Feb 26, 2023

Disco Elysium is an exceptional case in RPGs! From a very touching personal story and impressive world-building of Revachol city to the impressive narrative role-playing experience with one-of-a-kind RPG systems and incredible and flexible missions and dialogues that can be highly reactive towards the player decisions.

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BaziCenter
Makan Alikhani
Top Critic
10 / 10
Nov 6, 2019

Disco Elysium is not only a deep, innovative RPG, but is also one of those pieces of art that emerge maybe only once a decade. The Belarusian developers brutally throw the loneliness, struggles and helplessness of modern human into the players faces and leave them to deal with it. Disco Elysium not only offers a very deep and engaging story, but also mixes it superbly with some top of the line role playing elements, and gives you one of the most special experiences in recent years.

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GameSkinny
Top Critic
Oct 31, 2019

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.

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Oct 21, 2019

Now we know that the cigarettes don't need fire to get lit.

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10 / 10.0
Oct 20, 2019

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

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10 / 10
Oct 24, 2019

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.

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10 / 10
Oct 21, 2019

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.

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Oct 19, 2019

If you love RPGs, reading or fancy something different - and I mean really damn different - then track down Disco Elysium.

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Dec 13, 2019

Disco Elysium is perhaps one of the best role-playing games of all time, and I don't say that lightly. I haven't played a game that has been able to so masterfully flex to my actions as well as ZA/UM's freshman outing. The writing is sharp, the characters genuine, and the choices possess true stakes.

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10 / 10
Nov 4, 2019

Disco Elysium is a detective RPG that sets a new standard for storytelling.

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Unscored
Oct 28, 2019

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.

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Unscored
Dec 21, 2019
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Unscored
Oct 17, 2019

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.

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Unscored
Oct 15, 2019

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.

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Unscored
Nov 8, 2019

There’s unexpected joy in the little moments of Disco Elysium

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Polygon
Laura Dale
Top Critic
Unscored
Nov 5, 2019

Disco Elysium shines most when it gets weird. I was once pretending to be a psychic medium to get a woman to let me look through her supposedly haunted bookstore for a huge novelty polar bear freezer I could use to hide a very dead human body. I knew there were probably more reasonable options for places to store a corpse, but where's the fun in keeping it somewhere official and boring? This is what my character thought was best, and I was there for the ride.

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No Recommendation / Blank
Oct 18, 2019

A verbose and rich psychological roleplaying game that doesn't offer enough choice in the role you play.

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