"The heart of Disco Elysium is a murder mystery. You start as a disheveled detective with a savage hangover. Your clothes and memory are missing. Not far beyond your destroyed hotel room, someone is dead. Your investigation will slowly piece things together. But in the real world, a battle over the game's legacy has led fans on an even more mysterious quest."
"Disco Elysium is a detective story with the soul of a tortured poet. A role-playing game that gives you the freedom to be a psycho, a saint or a human car crash. After Harry Du Bois wakes up on the floor, he must make sense of both a vexing police investigation and the smoldering wreckage of his personal life. Along with those central mysteries, the game's literary prose and serious politics resonated with an audience hungry for mature storytelling."
"Creating something so radical took a team of outsiders: a group of socialist punks and artists from Estonia who had never made a video game. Though the writers come from a leftist background they thanked Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels at an award ceremony no ideology is spared from their lacerating critique. In Disco Elysium, you meet capitalists, unionists, monarchists, fascists and communists, all of them flawed, and must decide with whom your sympathies lie."
Disco Elysium centers on a murder investigation led by a disheveled detective, Harry Du Bois, suffering amnesia and a savage hangover. The gameplay emphasizes choice, allowing the player to be a psycho, a saint, or a human car crash while piecing together both the case and the protagonist's ruined life. The game pairs literary prose with serious political themes, presenting flawed adherents of many ideologies and forcing players to choose sympathies. Developed by a team of socialist punks and artists from Estonia with no prior game experience, the project became a major cultural and critical success.
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