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Disco Elysium
Released On: Oct 15, 2019
8.5
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 70 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
1% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 70 Critic Reviews
91
90% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
1% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A murder mystery set in a rich, fictional setting, Disco Elysium is told with sweeping profundity and hilarious absurdity. With no combat to impede story progression, this is a choice-driven role-playing adventure that deftly raises the bar of quality for the medium.
Disco Elysium is a very special RPG that most of your time will be spent on reading. It features a well-written detective story, various tricky skill trees, and memorable characters. This game might be the best one of its kind. But if you can't stand reading for a long time, just don't try it.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,570 User Ratings
8.5
83% Positive
1302 Ratings
1302 Ratings
7% Mixed
115 Ratings
115 Ratings
10% Negative
153 Ratings
153 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,570 User Ratings
8.5
83% Positive
1302 Ratings
1302 Ratings
7% Mixed
115 Ratings
115 Ratings
10% Negative
153 Ratings
153 Ratings
I hate to rate anything a ten, but this is a ten. I don't even think this game is for everyone, but it is near perfection for the people who get to fall in love with it. Pretty much, if you're a big weird book nerd, you're going to have an experience you've never gotten anywhere else and may never again (thanks to some very East European corporate skullduggery that mirrors the games plot). Give it a shot. It will either hook you or throw you back.
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Absolute masterpiece. Unique setting, memorable characters, awesome voice acting, story that is full of twists and turns. Be who you want to be. Super cop or Sorry Cop?
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Disco Elysium is the triumphant return of the spirit of Planescape: Torment. A triumph for fans of interactive fiction and cRPGS, with a fascinating world and a exciting story that adapts to the character you want to be.
It’s not very often that a game of this calibre comes along. Disco Elysium is mad with psychedelic energy, unabashedly dramatic, and dangerously well-written. I wish, like the detective, I could forget all about Disco Elysium, if only to experience it again as if for the first time. It’s truly one of the greatest RPGs ever released.
Disco Elysium is an amazing RPG with a great detective story and a lot of freedom for the players to complete the adventure the way they want to.
A few aspects are a tad rigid, but the possibilities and options, especially in building and enhancing your unique character are something very special.
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.
Es un juego de dados, lento y con mucho texo en pantalla. Definitivamente no es tan grandioso como la crítica dice.
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this is one of my favourite games and I've never played a game with better writing. I have however played many many games with better gameplay. I'd like to rate this higher but I can't pretend it's not a slog
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I played the game and it was definitely one of the worst and boring games I've ever seen and I deleted it. It's not a game, it's more like an e-book.
First of all, this is not an open world game. I have no idea how it can be marketed like this, have the makers ever seen an open world game? The NPCs do nothing but sleep at night and the world is a small and frankly empty map. It's static and dead and never changes. It's not even a world, let alone an open world.
It's not a real RPG either. Yes, you have stats and inventory and dice rolls, but that's it. Also, these are just game mechanics, there's a skill tree and inventory like in a lot of games, but they don't make a game an RPG game, and there's no real choice, because the whole difference is tied to dialog options, which you'll click on anyway, further destroying the role-playing part, and for a lot of things, choosing to do something will actually be a dice roll, and the mechanics of retrying the roll are overly complicated and too overwhelming to take the time.
No matter what you do, you'll be dragged towards a single ending, which makes sense since it's a murder mystery, but as a player you have no choice, the only real choice is at the character creation screen, and from that point on it's pretty much set how you're going to play the next 30-40 hours of the game, which is filled with dialog just to drag it out.
Yes, you can click on options in dialog windows, but the game will decide for you whether that happens or not, and it will mostly depend on your character's stats and some modifiers. Yes, again, it's an RPG mechanic, but as a player, you don't really get to choose anything or do anything.
An example **** where your choices really matter would be Detroit Become Human. Or even Witcher 3. Disco Elysium is nowhere near that level, Detroit is already not an RPG game, Witcher 3 is not a pure RPG, but supposedly Disco Elysium was marketed as open world and a pure RPG, but it's not even half as successful as those games.
In short, Disco Elysium is not a game to be played even if it's free. I never understood what they liked about this game. It is one of the most overrated games of recent years.
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The most pretentious game I've ever played. You're hooked for about 3-5 hours until you realize just how bored you are. Your "decisions" are cosmetic and have no impact to the base plot and thus are irrelevant.
At one point, I died from a heart attack after kicking something. Was this meant to be funny? Or is the game just, that, stupid? Your answer will tell you whether or not you will like this game.
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Summary Disco Elysium is an open world role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Oct 15, 2019
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- ZA/UM
Publisher: ZA/UM
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