Disco Elysium Successor Cruelly Cancelled in 2024 Would Have Been Most Hardcore Disco Since Disco
A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.
Disco Elysium was a rare beast, perhaps the most immaculately written video game ever released (in this humble scribe's opinion), but it was too pure for this world. Following its launch, the subsequent messy, public legal spat between the creatives responsible for the work and the suits who own the IP would result in multiple rounds of layoffs at developer ZA/UM, savagely ironic considering the game's anti-capitalist slant. But would it make you feel worse to know that the standalone expansion cancelled in February, possibly focused on Kim Kitsuragi, was nearly complete?
This spin-off, reputed to be "110% authentic, most hardcore Disco since Disco", according to lead writer Dora Klindžić, was referred to internally as X7 and could have been released as early as next year, in 2025. Thanks to some incredible reporting from PC Gamer, the tragic loss fans of melancholy narrative RPGs suffered unknowingly can now be properly savoured and marinated upon, the next best thing to another Disco Elysium game.
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