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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

GamesRadar

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.

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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.

PC Gamer

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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

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"

GamesRadar

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."

PC Gamer

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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Disco Elysium studio laying off nearly 25% of its staff⁠—including the final remaining writer from the original game's credits

Argo Tuulik featured prominently in People Make Games' documentary on ZA/UM.

PC Gamer

Developer of legendary CRPG thinks the team behind the beloved hit is gone forever, and that the company "will forever stay a one game studio"

"The individuals of ZA/UM have left the corporate body behind"

GamesRadar

Disco Elysium studio has reportedly canceled a standalone expansion to the beloved RPG as potential layoffs loom

This is said to be the third ZA/UM project canceled or put on hold since 2022

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The most important games and moments in 30 years of PC gaming, part 3: 2014 - 2023

Geralt of Rivia ushers in the modern era.

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The Steam Summer Sale is live! Here are five must-play games on Mac with awesome discounts

The Steam Summer Sale is here, and there are amazing games with fantastic discounts to play on Mac.

PC Gamer

After watching the explosive documentary on Disco Elysium's legal battle, I can't fathom how Disco Elysium 2 will ever be made

No one comes off well here except for the developers caught in the middle.

GamesRadar

Thanks to fans, Sacred and Terrible Air, a novel set in the same world as Disco Elysium, finally has its English translation

It was first published in Estonian in 2013

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Disco Elysium novel Sacred and Terrible Air has finally been translated

This is clearly a Code 31 emergency.

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Disco Elysium studio has ‘no further comments’ about recent staff departures

ZA/UM responds to community outrage regarding several key minds behind Disco Elysium leaving the company.

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The best laptop games

Great laptop games can run on low-spec PCs, fit cozily onto smaller screens, and are perfectly playable with a trackpad.

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