What other games would you recommend?

[Patient]

I'm not particularly good at articulating myself but I'll do my best.
I've 'finished' Disco Elysium, as in I've played it once. I've started another play through.
DE felt like a pretty unique game to me and I'm left wondering what other games I could play that would scratch the same itch / hit the spot.
"That's a bit vague, can you give specifics?" Um...
- Cerebral atmosphere / tone
- Humorous and serious?
- Strong world building and characters
- Commentary / critique / exploration of social issues or the human condition

"What can you do without in these hypothetical other games to play?"
- It doesn't have to be a point and click game
- It doesn't have to be a detective game
- It doesn't have to be an RPG or a 'choices matter' game
*But I do love RPG's and choices matter games*

P.S. One game on my radar for next to play is SOMA

P.P.S. Hell if you have book recommendations that would be great too.

[m.schinlaub]

Primordia is a really good point and click. It has some interesting puzzles, a fantastic story, and an artsy look to it. Some of the puzzles can get frustrating though, but it's worth getting through. https://store.steampowered.com/app/227000/Primordia/
And if you're into choose your own adventure stories, Choice of Robots is great. It's purely text, basically a book with choices, but it has a huge variety of story paths and is well worth a go. Also, @JoJo, how do you put those store links in a post?
Edit: So when I linked to Primordia, I just clicked share on the store page and copied the html, didn't know it would do that. Cool. Also, I remembered Murdered: Soul Suspect. It's older, with some frustrating parts, but the story was worth it.

[Hakimoto]

引用自 JoJo faiseur de rois：

"Torment: Tides of Numenara" is the closest thing to Disco elysium. Unfortunately, fights in Torment are uninteresting and difficult. They should have removed the fights to make a text RPG (point n click) like Disco elysium.

If you like choices that have "real" consequences. So, I recommend Tyranny: https://store.steampowered.com/app/362960/Tyranny/
This game is made by obsidian (Pillars of eternity). it is much shorter than POE (only 35/45 hours to finish the game), in return, your choices have real impacts on your adventure.
Otherwise, you can play the classic CRPS: Baldur's gate series, Pillars of eternity series, Pathfinder series... But Tyranny is a real 'choices matter' game


if you want a good police investigation game (90s thriller style): Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition

https://store.steampowered.com/app/262000/Gabriel_Knight_Sins_of_the_Fathers_20th_Anniversary_Edition/

I played Tide of Numenara on my PS4. If that version is anything to go by, hooo boy. I'd avoid it. It was a buggy mess with terrible combat. The only redeeming feature was the story.

[smilehigh]

Planescape: Torment
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Blade Runner (1997)

Also if we stray a bit further into RPG territory "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura" is a much better fit for your description then Pillars of Eternity that a lot of people here suggest.

For the atmosphere try "Shadowrun: Dragonfall" and "Shadowrun: Hong Kong" (but skip Shadowrun Returns).

[lautlachen]

planescape torment, for sure. don't play numenara, though. it sucks.

[coovien]

Pathologic 2
It's pretty challenging though compared to Disco Elysium
If you do try it though go for intended difficulty not easy mode
https://store.steampowered.com/app/505230/Pathologic_2/

[godfather101]

As others already said:
Planescape: Torment is the only game which, for me at least, hit the same spot as Disco Elysium.
Although there is more fighting, the World Building (and espacially the stories) are really on spot.
Disco Elysium feels really like a spiritual succesor to Planescape: Torment.

Of course there are other games (and i think i played most of them like the Divinity Games, or Pillars of Eternity 2, Arcanum etc.), but none of them comes near the great storywriting/telling as Disco Elysium (and Planescape: Torment) did.

Also, there is an enhanced editon of Planescape Torment from Beamdog which makes it easier to let it run on modern computers (and has some quality of life features, but still the game is 13 years old, so in some aspects you can feel that too, just keep it in mind):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/466300/Planescape_Torment_Enhanced_Edition/


Oh, and one last thing:
If you buy (and play) Planescape Torment let us know here how you liked it (after you finished it ^^).

[꧁꧂]

NORCO. hits the same buttons for me Disco does.

[Sooo_Neurotypical]

Here are some reccs you won't hear from anyone else on the internet:

Games:
* Bear Stearns Bravo
* Murder Dog IV: Trial of the Murder Dog
* Space Funeral

Books:
* This Shape We're In (Lethem)
* Springer's Progress (Markson)
* The Death of Bunny Munro (Cave)
* David Foster Wallace's SHORT STORIES, specifically
* Herzog (Bellow)

I'd also second the poster above me re: Kentucky Route Zero. And NORCO definitely looks interesting -- hadn't heard of it before now but will give it a shot for sure.