Gee, is this game 5 years old already?
Time really does fly. :(

Can't say anything about the game, it's still on my wishlist.

Disco Elysium is a political work but its focus is on man, not ideologies.
At its core, Disco Elysium, emotionally, is a painful, unshakable confusion. It is the confusion of man in front of the complexity of relationships: social, personal, political.
It will move you.

Same. It really kind of stunned me to think it's been 5 years since I wishlisted it. Made me realise even more than usual just how long it takes me to get around to new games. It might very well be considered one of the "old classics" by the time I actually play it. If I ever do.

Pretty much this.

Capitalism breaks everything it touches. Even games that are denouncing it.

Disco Elysium manages to illustrate that in-game, and sadly by the way it has been stolen from its creators by greedy leeches.

No cap? Playin it tells me that commies will always act retarded, fr fr
If they were slow like me that be fine but they be even more retarded.

I bought this game on release but haven’t played it yet, for two major reasons :

1. It has (as far as I’m aware) no (downloadable .pdf) manual explaining the game mechanics and systems and user interface etc. When you make a game such as this (which claims to be thoughtful) you really ought to provide a manual with it to give gamers an idea of these crucial things. An ONLINE wiki is not good enough because it’s online - and I buy games here to play them OFFLINE.

2. It sounds like an awesome, thoughtful game - just like Planescape : Torment. However, call.me shallow but I like to kill baddies and blow things up ! Does this game have any combat ? I’ve read a number of reviews and have never been able to work out whether the game actually has any combat !

Huge apologies to the (GOG employee) OP of this thread, but although I bought this game many years ago I still haven’t played it yet. I would love to eulogise it and I’m sure it’s amazing but behold my objections !

I still remember how this game was advertised as "being the size of New Vegas" which really rub me the wrong during my first playthrough because it wasn't like NV at all lol but despite that, nowadays I do consider it the proper succesor of Planescape Torment and well, I think that says it all It does have a few fights, but it's all text based

Disco Elysium isn't just a game for me; it’s an experience that lingers long after you put it down. From the moment I stepped into the rain-soaked streets of Revachol, I felt an immediate connection to its world—a gritty, yet deeply philosophical place that challenges everything you think you know about morality, identity, and the human condition.

What does Disco Elysium mean to me?

My ever-expanding backlog of critically-acclaimed and amazing games that I will likely never play due to me being addicted to a handful of repetitive older games.

Maybe one day I'll actually install this and click play.

Honestly, the game looked neat when I first saw it. But then I saw the team that made the game use their game award speech to praise Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. I'm not going to touch anything made by people that would praise that blood soaked ideology favored by that team.

Which is the reason why I shied away from buying it for now. I want to support the original creators.

My sentiments exactly.

I'm uncertain if I have adequate words to describe it. But it's "A macabre murder mystery for super sleuths to solve"