ZA/UM, the studio responsible for 2019's cult classic RPG Disco Elysium (although it's fair to say there's a little more to it than that), has revealed its new game Project C4.
The studio describes the game as "a mind-warping story of espionage and team-building" which takes place in an "original yet achingly familiar setting", which might suggest the setting will bear some similarities to Disco Elysium's Revachol.
Project C4's debut trailer is characteristically vague and oblique, with a voiceover intoning vague lines like "my mind is eating itself" and "obliteration wears a rented suit" with a withering English twang. In fairness, this is a teaser trailer (and one made by ZA/UM, no less), so we probably shouldn't expect straightforward.
The opening words of the trailer confidently read "WE ARE ZA/UM" and "WE BROUGHT YOU Disco Elysium", but that's arguably only true up to a certain point.
Back in 2022, Disco Elysium lead designer Robert Kurvitz, along with art director Aleksander Rostov and writer Helen Hindpere, confirmed that they were no longer a part of ZA/UM after it was reported that the three had been quietly removed from the studio.
What followed is a lengthy,...
