Ex-Disco Elysium developers have announced two brand new studios and two spiritual successors to the influential RPG within just a day or so of each other. Feel free to make your own "weird that it happened twice" joke here.
The first new studio to make its announcement (in our running order, not necessarily chronologically) is Dark Math Games, which describes itself as a "breakaway group from the original development team of Disco Elysium".
The team is based in the UK and boasts a staff of 20, "about half of whom contributed to bringing the critically acclaimed hit Disco Elysium...to life", according to a press release.
Dark Math's debut game is XXX Nightshift, a slightly questionably-named narrative RPG in which you are "stranded at a luxury ski resort in Antarctica".
As you play, you'll experience "deep single-player role-playing", complete with an "innovative and powerful role-playing system" that "respects your time and trusts your intelligence with seismic choices". Sounds pretty Disco Elysium-esque, alright.
Somewhat cheekily, Dark Math also promises XXX Nightshift will bring "a few less words" and "a few more bullets" to the RPG table, resulting in a "lot more fun". It's probably fair to say there was...