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The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce

Tabletop roleplaying drives videogame RPGs to be better.

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Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals "key design tenet" mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: "Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful"

Interview with the designer of Disco Elysium's free tabletop RPG spiritual successor

GamesRadar

Details about the canceled Disco Elysium spin-off codenamed X7 have leaked, and it would have let us play as Cuno and Cunoesse

It's not an April Fool's joke, but you'll wish it was.

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I've finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM's follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase

Project C4 will challenge its predecessor on its own turf—will it really be worth the wait?

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Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators

Anything "Elysium" from ZA/UM is inherently fraught.

PC Gamer

It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2

Surely there are other ways of marketing videogames.

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After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor

I want to keep writing this sort of thing even less than you want to keep reading it.

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6 Years Later, One Of The Very Best RPGs Is Getting An Unlikely Follow-Up

We now know the vibes of the troubled studio's sophomore game.

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The battle to steal the Disco Elysium successor's spotlight continues as former and current ZA/UM devs reveal teasers for their new RPGs simultaneously

ZA/UM's new RPG is called Project C4

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Karlach voice actor offers a pre-emptive no thanks to Disco Elysium successors that don't include the original project lead: 'Miss me with that casting call'

If your post-Disco project doesn't include Robert Kurvitz, Samantha Béart's not interested.

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ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer

I'd write a strapline here, but the postman's arrived with my bag.

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Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz praises the first Fallout: 'It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park'

Though it wouldn't be Marx's favorite.

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A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game

There will never be another "normal" Disco Elysium news story.

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I desperately hope Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium inspire more RPG devs to reject the traditional drip, drip, drip of DLC and expansions

Playing finished games? It'll never catch on.

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With no Disco Elysium 2 in sight, who exactly are behind the 5 studios of Disco devs now vying to make its spiritual successor?

Here's who's actually making each of these 'Disco Elysium spiritual successors' and their odds of doing something cool.

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After forming a new studio at an "apocalyptic" time for game devs, Disco Elysium writer says "this industry is finished" but "video games are not"

Summer Eternal plans to be worker and player owned

Inverse

5 Years Later, This Fascinating RPG Shattered One Studio and Inspired Four More

There's really nothing like 'Disco Elysium,' a fascinating political detective RPG that just passed its fifth anniversary.

PC Gamer

This is the Disco Elysium successor to get excited about: Multiple writers from the original announce a manifesto to create an RPG 'with complexity and ambition to rival our wretched and wonderful world'

Summer Eternal is an artist collective boasting two of the original Disco's five principle writers, as well as narrator and musician Lenval Brown and multiple devs from its canceled sequel.

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A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor

There are now as many ZA/UM successors as there are Workers' Internationals, appropriately enough.

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Disco Elysium ‘spiritual successor’ in development at new video game studio

A sequel to the Bafta-winning 2019 RPG was recently cancelled by developer ZU/AM. Now, some of its original team have set up a new studio to make a successor

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A spiritual successor to Disco Elysium that's "continuing a legacy" of RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and Icewind Dale is in the works from Bungie, Rockstar, and ZA/UM veterans

The upcoming psychological RPG will let you constantly reshape the world with your decisions

PC Gamer

There's now a third studio boasting Disco Elysium veterans trying to follow up the beloved RPG—here with a spiritual successor 'psychogeographic RPG'

We've got ZA/UM, Red Info, and now Longdue laying claim to the Disco legacy.

GamesRadar

The Disco Elysium devs were cooking the "most hardcore Disco since Disco" before management laid most of them off: "Everyone was looking forward to its development"

"For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption"

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A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption'

It was supposed to be the "110% authentic, most hardcore Disco since Disco."

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Six games that will never see the light of day thanks to the mass tech layoffs

The massive wave of tech layoffs this year has led to the cancellation of at least six games, which will now never see the light of day.

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