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‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

As they get ready to tour its mournful music, the band reflect on Disco Elysium, the video game whose soundtrack won them a Bafta – and plenty of new followers

The Guardian - UK

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

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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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

GamesRadar

D&D-skewering, Disco Elysium-inspired RPG Esoteric Ebb had me trying my best to be a cleric while my Intelligence stat kept telling me to become a wizard-king

D&D plus Disco, so kind of like a sillier Planescape: Torment.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call"

"If your 'spiritual successor' to Disco Elysium does not involve creator Robert Kurvitz, then save both of us some time"

GamesRadar

Disco Elysium lead says original Fallout is an RPG "that's almost Biblical in its annihilation," making "other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park"

The first Fallout showed "video games can be a total work of art"

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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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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

The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam

So comrades, come rally.

PC Gamer

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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The Guardian - UK

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

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"

PC Gamer

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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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

Broken Roads is a post-apocalyptic CRPG in the classic vein: 'We are unashamedly copying Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Pillars 2, Baldur's Gate'

The end of the world is coming home.

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.

PC Gamer

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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