Ex-Disco Elysium builders have introduced two model new studios and two religious successors to the influential RPG inside only a day or so of one another. Be at liberty to make your personal “bizarre that it occurred twice” joke right here.
The primary new studio to make its announcement (in our working order, not essentially chronologically) is Darkish Math Video games, which describes itself as a “breakaway group from the unique growth workforce of Disco Elysium“.
The workforce relies within the UK and boasts a workers of 20, “about half of whom contributed to bringing the critically acclaimed hit Disco Elysium…to life”, in response to a press launch.
Darkish Math’s debut sport is XXX Nightshift, a barely questionably-named narrative RPG wherein you’re “stranded at a luxurious ski resort in Antarctica”.
As you play, you will expertise “deep single-player role-playing”, full with an “modern and highly effective role-playing system” that “respects your time and trusts your intelligence with seismic decisions”. Sounds fairly Disco Elysium-esque, alright.
Considerably cheekily, Darkish Math additionally guarantees XXX Nightshift will carry “a couple of much less phrases” and “a couple of extra bullets” to the RPG desk, leading to a “lot extra enjoyable”. It is in all probability honest to say there was plenty of studying concerned in having fun with Disco Elysium.
XXX Nightshift does not have a launch date or window but, however you may wishlist it on Steam right here if you wish to observe together with its progress.
Subsequent up on the Disco Elysium religious successor conveyor belt is Longdue, a brand new studio that boasts a dozen workers members “together with workforce members that labored on the unique Disco Elysium and its unreleased sequel”.
Longdue can also be pulling in expertise from the likes of Bungie and Rockstar for its debut title, which it describes as a “psychological RPG” which “explores the fragile interaction between the aware and unconscious”.
In contrast to Darkish Math’s sport, Longdue’s debut undertaking does not have a reputation but, however you may keep watch over its progress by heading over to the studio’s new official web site.
In whole, this makes 4 firms arguably vying for the legacy of Disco Elysium. In addition to the 2 studios above, there’s additionally Purple Information, a studio supposedly based by ex-Disco Elysium leads Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov, though we’ve not heard a lot about that studio for some time.
In fact, authentic Disco Elysium developer ZA/UM can also be technically nonetheless a going concern, though it did cancel a undertaking and lay off a few of its workers earlier this 12 months. Which of those studios will emerge victorious within the battle for Disco Elysium‘s soul? We will have to attend and see.
