Disco Elysium cover art

Disco Elysium

2019 · ZA/UM · ~25h to finish

No reflexes and no fights — you fail by having rolled badly on the question of who you decided to be twenty hours ago.

rpgnarrativePCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 97
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty3.4MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
4.0
Obscurity
3.9
Puzzle
3.5
Punishment
3.0
Learning Curve
3.0
Grind
1.0
Reaction
0.3
Execution
0.2
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Obscurity drops 0.9 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Punishment drops 0.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 1.4 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 2% · ~0hPunishment

    the very first room, which can end your entire game in about four minutes

    14
  2. 78% · ~18hStrategy

    the confrontation three quarters in, resolved against skills you can no longer raise

    5

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Save anywhere [unsourced]

VISION

  • Scalable UI & text [unsourced]Adjustable text size, added after launch.

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]Fully voiced with complete text, including the internal voices.

GUIDANCE

  • Objective markers [unsourced]The task list pins locations on the map for every open thread.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A detective RPG with no combat, in which twenty-four aspects of your own mind argue with you as skills, and dice rolls decide what you are capable of noticing or saying.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

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