Detective cRPG Disco Elysium Launches Later This Month

Disco Elysium, the cRPG from publisher and developer ZA/UM, is set to launch later this month, on October 15. Coming to PC, the title looks to shake up the cRPG landscape by doing things a tad differently. In it, you take on the role of a detective, getting to solving murders across the Martinaise district in the city of Revanchol.

Disco Elysium lets you become "a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being" if its Steam page is anything to go by. The title emphasizes the use of dialogue and its skill system that end up influencing your character's development much more than a regular +2 to constitution would.

Your characters can also have Thoughts, which act as both a reputation system, ending up with defining your character in the eyes of the others, but also representing perks (often with both positive and negative aspects. Thoughts won't be static things, either, evolving over time.

Although its action takes place in just one district of one city, developer ZA/UM says that its game world is "about the size of Planescape: Torment", taking 90 hours to beat if you're an avid completionist or 30 if you rush through its story. We'll get to see everything it has to offer in less than two weeks now.

Bogdan Robert,
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