The drama behind the ZA/UM split after Disco Elysium has to be one of the biggest falls from grace a studio has seen in a while. After putting out one of the best new RPGs in the industry, ZA/UM split into three different studios, each of which announced their own versions of a Disco Elysium successor.
Perhaps this is not the chosen one.
The original studio has finally thrown its hat into the ring by announcing C4, an espionage thriller RPG, steeped in elements of psychedelic sci-fi. While it's no Disco Elysium 2, it does sound a lot like it. So, as it stands, all the former Disco Elysium parties and their new studios are working on a successor.
"As an Operant serving a questionable global power, the player finds themselves locked in a vicious, clandestine struggle for truth and influence," says the plot summary, "Yet it is the mind that takes centre stage in Project C4. More vulnerable and more powerful than the physical world, it can be erased, changed, reordered, and of course significantly altered through regular use of psychoactive substances amongst other means."
Writers Siim 'Kosmos' Sinamäe and Jim Ashilevi insisted that while there...
