Games Like Disco Elysium
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- Disco Elysium is a 2019 role-playing video game developed and published by ZA/UM. Inspired by Infinity Engine-era games, particularly Planescape: Torment, the game was written and designed by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and features a distinctive oil painting art style with music by the English band British Sea Power. Disco Elysium gameplay.
Disco Elysium takes place in the seaside district of a fictional city still recovering from a siege which occurred decades prior to the game's start. Players take the role of an amnesiac detective who has been tasked with solving a murder mystery. During the investigation, he comes to recall events about his own past as well as current forces trying to affect the city
There aren't many games out there like Disco Elysium, but in this video I'll go over some games and TV shows/movies that are similar!
Chapters:
Intro - 00:00 - 01:05
1. Kentucky Route Zero - 01:05 - 01:58
2. True Detective - 01:58 - 03:21
3. Planescape Torment - 03:21 - 04:47
4. Inherent Vice - 04:47 - 05:47
5. Honourable Mentions 05:47 - 07:09
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Shutter Island is also a big inspiration for Disco Elysium, great detective thriller
Shutter Island is so slept on. Such an amazing film.
I can recommend Norco. It's a game with a really interesting story and a nice artstyle.
I played the demo for it a bit and it is indeed reminiscent of Disco Elysium in some ways
norco deserves more love. tremendous tonesetting and writing. accurate factually to the area as well
It may have been a rhetorical question but my vote goes to Nicolas Cage to play Harry.
RIGHT HERE ON THE SEA ICE?!
Nicolas Cage would be a very interesting choice, but I stand by Joaquin Phoenix. He has the better acting chops IMO
check out Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
I literally recommend Twin Peaks to everyone.
Planescape Torment is truly an incredible game, but just like Disco Elysium, most people nowadays are too brainf*cked to push through lines of dialogue. READING is too much of a task for the modern consumer.
Yeah but personally i think if the game was remastered with the same story, just a little bit polished, it could be the most amazing game ever.
To be fair, Planescape Torment has gameplay that kinda lives up to the game's name. I was living from text to text and suffering though the bits of fighting in-between.
@@loquens5060 the game is 25 years old, of course you don't like the gameplay, also, that was the fucking point tbh, lore over combat.
@@lorddante571 there are 25 year old games with much more enjoyable combat
@@loquens5060 ok name 5.
Glad you mentioned Sea Power in the video. This band is my favorite band and they wrote music for one of my favorite games.
Damn right dude. They legit set the scene so well with their music. It wouldn't be the same game without it.
Sea Power became my favorite after I played Disco
Citizen Sleeper also scratched this itch for me as it also has this kind of broken society, but with many warm, human characters.
citizen sleeper misusing the idea of "planned obsolescence" made me quit it real quick lmao
@@user-rm1lg6xh2d i don't see how so? Also I don't know why that would ruin it for you?
@@johannesdalseg5893 okay youre not smart enough to understand that what is described in the game as planned obsolescence is not what planned obsolescence is. thats ok be unbothered i guess
@@user-rm1lg6xh2d Planned obsolescence is not one thing with a singular straightforward definition that every company sticks to in irl either. In the game its just meant a meaningless term to act as a front for the shackling of the sleepers.
Being intentionally designed to break down, and being dependent on the company for fixes. Why doesn't that fit the definition/what definition are you guys working with?
You could also watch the films Half light and Inland Empire, after which the in game skills were named...
...however many times it takes to understand a tenth of the plot
There's a game named Sovereign Syndicate which released rather recently. I haven't played it yet, but it looks like a 1 to 1 copy of Disco Elysium, in a fantasy setting. I think they even use the same engine.
Felvidek is a weird yet beautiful slovakian fever dream that is somehow very similiar to Disco Elysium (the protagonist is an alcoholic knight with a grin on his face and a woman who left him)
Planescape: Torment is so much an inspiration for Disco Elysium that you may as well call Disco Elysium "Planescape:Alcoholism". DE is to PT like an amazing cover of massively influential piece of music, done in an unexpected style, but somehow even truer to the original intent than the towering classic itself was.
Two recommendations to plug the void up with:
The game A Night in the Woods. Another tale of a struggling, dysfunctional bag of wasted potential in a crumbling, bitter-sweet post-industrial ruin, except in the states. I came to think of it as pretty much a companion piece to DE of sorts.
The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers. Things like Sway, Sister Morphine, and, honestly, most of the damned thing, are moreso the soundtrack to DE than the soundtrack to DE is.
Oh yeah, Night in the Woods really fucked me up. It's not as horribly dark, of course, but it hit much closer to home with its themes. Weird, I didn't even think about that game while playing DE, but now that you mention it, yeah, it made me feel as hollow as parts of Raphael's journey at certain points. I can't really think of anything else that comes close to evoking those emotions. Maybe "Longing" in Planescape, if you know you know.
@@ninjatoriumnova2483 They are remarkably simmilar in many ways. Both are moreso novels than games. Both have serious True Detective S1 vibes (Night even moreso). Both have massively dysfunctional and scarred protagonists who lost their minds facing a deeply uncaring and malevolent universe (read: Capitalism). Both games have the whole 'once a nice, hopeful, proud, exemplary place crumbling and decaying all around them' as a setting, whith both seemingly infulenced by the Wire S2 (DE more overtly). Both have an emo soundtrack that punches way above what you'd think the weight of the gere even is. And so on and so forth.
Oh, and, IMO Night is actually the darker of the two, it's just done in a less grotesque visual style. I'm East European, DE is 'documentary' to me in the same way tha Night would be to an American. Hell I grew up in the port-adjecent working class neighbourhood, in the nineties, of a town that was literraly 'the other end of Baltimoore, across the pond'. So Marinaise gave me PTSD flashbacks. But Night hit me harder because it's actually even bleaker and more depressing.
i recommend Esoteric Ebb, best Disco-like game so far
Your channel has a bright future putting out videos like this. Earned yourself a sub :)
Hey thanks doomguy! Very kind
amazing video, think i will start True Detective rn, thanks!!
Thank you! Aw I hope you enjoy it, season 1 is real special
Great video, and shared feeling!
Glad you enjoyed it!
id recommend the pathologic games as its kinda similar, you arrive in an unknown world reflecting our own as you try and decipher what is happening, covering some similar themes. One of the most profound experiences ever
Try Papers Please and Return of the Obra Dinn. Both great games, both philosophically driven, in the latter game you are also a detective who is trying to solve the mystery of a ship that has somehow returned to shore but with all the crew members dead. What happened on this ship? and their both also from the same guy. I would love to hear your thoughts on them.
Torment: Tides of numenera is also very good, incredible story, amnesia plot, many secrets to discover, and i think the best part is how incredible the world is, one of the last cities we visit is literally a stomach of a giant creature travelling through cosmos, inhabited by poor people who eat what he eats.
Great vid man 👊
Thanks man, very kind
I think if you like Disco you would find Roadwarden interesting. I really enjoyed the dark fantasy setting and the game has some really good writing as well as music to help immerse yourself into its world
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Pretty decent list! Id also recommend the Pathologic games and Vampire the masquerade bloodlines writing wise, also The Age of Decadence to some degree. I wouldnt say combat isnt prominently featured in PS:T the game is still pretty combat heavy, it just takes a secondary role to the story.
The first thing that comes to my mind when i hear "Disco Elysium-like game" is "Pathalogic 2". It has no similar mechanics with disco, it has very hard survival gameplay, but it feels like a book, but in the game, just like disco elysium. Maybe i didn't express my opinion clearly, but if tou play it you'll understand
If you loved Disco Elysium, please give Umineko When The Cry a go. It’s more of a novel than a video game but it’s a narrative masterpiece that the creator put heart and soul into creating, like Disco, and I truly believe you’ll enjoy it 🙏
Tails: Noir is a great narrative detective game
The next narrative-based game that I was able to enjoy after finishing Disco Elysium was Divinity 2 The original sin. It has lass in common in terms of setting and style, but is also very well-written and the gameplay was so much fun
although it's in a completely different artstyle, i highly recommend pentiment! partly an early renaissance detective story, but an entirely different narrative and probably one of my favorites next to DE itself, lol.
You can try 1 more game - firewatch, maybe you gonna like it as i did after disco elysium
Firewatch is great, such a sad game
I’m actually getting Sacred and Terrible Air printed by a company called Lulu. I can’t wait to read it. I’ve heard it gives off Blood Meridian vibes in the reading style same with house of leaves
Dude you have great taste. House of Leaves shook me.
@@Dmond94 I still have no clue how I was able to understand it. Definitely reinstated my love for modern fiction
This is a good video, thought you'd have more subscribers. I think this will be a big channel in YT especially if the creator chooses to talk about media in general and not only videogames
Hey thank you! Appreciate your thoughts on this.
This is actually a new channel of mine where I'm experimenting with gaming content, I have another channel that is mainly film/TV/docu style stuff.
Same. I played Citizen Sleeper and Pentiment after Disco Elysium. The first one is nice, but it is a very condensed experience that while good just doesn't reach the level of genius and complexity that DE has.
Curiously enough, Pentiment is closer to what I expected DE to be before I played it. It gave me the kind of experience I thought I would have only to realize that DE blew it out of the water so hard it unfortunately caused Pentiment to feel mediocre in comparison. There's also the issue that (MILD SPOILERS) the systems in Pentiment feel a bit barebones and lacking. The story's resolution feels like it detracts from your actions taken throughout the game, since now that you know the answer, you can't help but feel like the game is holding you back to reach the right answer when it's just within reach. Like the game is at odds with its narrative.
I'm currently watching a few people playing DE, and it's amazing to see how deep the thought process was behind the game, with not only the ramifications but deep exploration of the character's psyche, and it's all so tightly tied together. DE truly is a pretty much perfect game.
And yeah, Joaquin Phoenix as HDB would be so good!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts dude!
I'm midway through a playthrough of Pentiment right now, and kind of agree with you. It's VERY good though.
Also played Citizen Sleeper and Pentiment after DE, and while i really liked them both, no game has ever made me cry as much as Pentiment did. Disco is still my #1 though. Just really appreciate their qualities on their own
I absolutely love Inherent Vice, my favorite PTA film. I do think it’a great, almost purposly keeps the story from you, I think its Edgar Wright that said it should be called Inherent Twice because tou have to watch it twice to get what even happened in the story lmao. Great video dude
Haha I love that. Maybe I should watch it again, sometimes movies just don't click with you on the first watch. Thanks for watching dude.
@@Dmond94 it’s certainly not for everyone lmao. I just really like the whole aesthetic, and Joaquin Phoenix’s performance. Maybe the story comes out a little clearer in the book by Thomas Pynchon. But I think I’ve watched it enough times to get the story from the movie lmao.
Haven't seen the movie, but you might find Inherent Vice to be much more agreeable as a novel. The structure of the plot is such that it keeps moving away from being resolved or making sense, getting wrapped up in conspiracies left and right, probably a difficult thing to capture in a time limited format.
I may just pick up a copy of the book, thanks dude
Pathologic 2. You are welcome or I am sorry, depending on how bad it hits you.
I've heard good things... I'm scared...
great video i will be your 78 suscriber
C'mon inherent vice is great. In fact I'm kinda addicted to this film.
You're addicted to it? You could say this film is your, inherent vice.
@@ratmessiah7223 certainlly
I need to rewatch it for sure
Citizen Sleeper and Pentiment are good options
Looking for something weird, avant-garde, refreshing and deep? Pathologic, though thats the kind of thing you play if you enjoy self-torture.
Disco Elysium is the goat
But it seems you didn't quoted David Lynch, main inspiration to the mood of the game
Please, do a video of the Book. Please pretty pleaaase.
Soverign Syndicate is good too
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog also gave me Disco Elysium vibes more so if you imagined what Harry du bois life before losing is memory might have been. He has...interesting methods...
I love Herzog and this is one i haven't seen! Thank you!
The world of Dysco Elysium is like how americans see Europe
I broke this with that new persona 3 remake
Have heard very good things, I need to check it out
Have you heard of 'The Thaumaturge'?
Never! What is it?
@@Dmond94 A video game. Google it. Perhaps it will strike a chord.
It’s pronounced Me-Ay-Ville
i think Suzerain is another game that falls into this category, ultrafocused on politics and definitely made for people who read Wikipedia for fun
_inhales_
um actually, Sigil is pronounced with a hard G, as in "Great"
Ok?
@@Dmond94 great vid. im going to play planescape torment now
No pentiment????
I hadn't played it at the time!