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A world where the subconscious comes to life and plunges us into some of the weirdest and most interesting conversations of video game history. This is how I could describe Disco Elysium, one of the strangest experiences I’ve had the pleasure of trying throughout my life. Developed by the now-defunct ZA/UM development team, it came to us back in October 2019 and hasn’t stopped getting better ever since.

So much so that now it not only has a definitive version with 93% positive reviews on Steam, but also added texts in USAsome time ago. That is to say, that you are not going to find a better moment (leaving a discount out of the equation, being a title quite prone to it) to enjoy it. And in case you’re wondering, yes, it’s worth it. Very much.

Disco Elysium is one of the best pure RPGs I’ve played in a long time.

That 93% of reviews on Steam speaks for itself, but the truth is that we would only be scratching the surface if we stayed with something as simple as an overall evaluation. To begin with, we can say that Disco Elysium is the pure definition of role. Leaving any combat system out of the equation, it boils it all down to conversations, exploration, decision-making, and consequences.

In them, of course, many times the action enters, but you should not expect a fast-paced title where our protagonist makes violence his dogma. It won’t be like that. Something logical if we take into account that the main character is an old legend of the police —today diminished because of alcohol— in a dystopian world and with an almost post-apocalyptic character.

That is to say, we will be the underappreciated arm of the law in a festering and putrid society where the law of the strongest prevails everywhere. We can see this in scenes as “casual” as that of a child throwing stones at a hanged corpse, a motel destroyed after an alcoholic tantrum or an internal world where nothing is what it seems.

A game where psychology is the central axis of the narrative

If you are thinking that Disco Elysium looks good and/or seems very strange, I must tell you that you are right on both counts. However, this is only the beginning. In addition to making decisions with not a few physical elements and people, we will have very, very, very peculiar conversations with ourselves. Or so it seems, because we will establish a dialogue with a kind of abstract existence that defines us from within.

It will be this kind of consciousness —pseudo?— omniscient that guides (on many occasions) our ethical, political and moral compass while unraveling a murder mystery and we solve, or not, the problems that arise around us. All this taking as an ingredient exploration, obtaining clues and objects, solving puzzles through information and items, etc.

That is to say, Drink some of the classic graphic novels, but with a much more direct approach by being able to explore their world in a personal way. All this will be well accompanied by a kind of statistics system that will mark how good or bad we are in certain elements and throws in the purest board game style to determine if we can do or what we want… Or not.

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