95% of the game is dialogue with other npcs and yourself. So if you don't want to read for 30+ hours this is not the game for you. There is absolutely no combat. The RPG aspect is that you can level up different aspects of yourself like logic, reaction time, composure, endurance, etc. and as those skills come up in conversation you are having not only dialogue with the npcs but also yourself on how to proceed. It is very unique, and very awesome if you are into it. One of the most unique, thought provoking games I've ever played.

Disco Elysium is one of the best games I've ever played. It's an RPG, but it's a very different one, with no combat and heavy focus on skill checks. It's also a detective story, that feels amazing to slowly unravel until you finally solve the case.

If you want to try it, I'll give you three advices:

- Don't look for spoilers, be a real detective.
- Don't metagame or reload if you fail a check, live with the consequences of your choices.
- Don't skip text. If you are tired of reading, stop and play again another day.

While Disco Elysium has some replay value, it's all about the first playthrough. Don't spoil it and enjoy the ride.

you can spend the entire game saying the most communist thing possible in every single dialogue, read communist books, show sympathy for the revolution, etc. and when you finally meet the most communist person in the game he just calls you a liberal

I will never emotionally or socioeconomically recover from this

the best book i have ever played

Great game, sail the seas. The people who actually made this game got pushed out. This game was stolen from the creators, don't buy it and help fund their theft. Find different ways to experience it

So only played 90 minutes but I'm already floored.
Look every time a game has the "choices matter" tag on steam I put this to test. So I play for an hour, then restart the game and look how much deviation and "choices matter" there actually is.

And where most games fail in this regard, this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nails it. So I did two quick test runs, with two completely different charactes, and while the "dialogue beats" are, of course, mostly the same, the way you get to them is so ridiculously tailored to your character you would think the game is actually written for the character you create in the beginning. Never ever in ~25 years of gaming did I encounter this feeling of a game respecting my character with the depth and intricacies as this does. I'm in awe.

Edit: 5 hours in. I actually had to start a new save. Not because of a bug or I'm at a dead end or something like that but because my character became such an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ through my choices (hey I wanted to test the extremes, you know) that I can't identify with him anymore, and even feel repulsed by him if this make any sense, lol. What an awesome game. Which other game even challenges you like that?

Final edit is coming after I beat this game.

If some dev is reading this I do have some minor quibbles though:

- For the love of god don't cloud sync the game settings. My laptop for work is a potato compared to my at-home-gaming-rig and it's a pita to always have to change my settings if I switch pcs.

- It would be awesome if you could not only up a skill when you level up, but be able to reduce the point of a skill as well (for people not playing the game already: There can be downsides if you are too good with a skill. Like how you can be "too empathic" or "too logical" in real life to the point people think you're a weirdo). Would make room for more build diversity. I don't particularly agree that if you want to play a master of logical deduction you 'have to' be some kind of a drama queen as well.

This is probably the game that touched me the most in my entire life.

After a certain age, the fascination and surprise for things tends to decrease. I see my nephews completely hallucinating about some new Marvel movie and I remember my young self watching Lord of the Rings for the first time. That sense of surprise, wonder, excitement I swore had been lost.

Until I came across this game.

It is a game that subverts the idea of ​​winning, that reinvents a genre, that creates a new art, finally reading it in the form of a game in its definitive form.

But it's not for everyone. It is a game for those who like to read, for those who want to read. Maybe it doesn't really bring the adrenaline and action that some expect in a video game, but it does bring a very audacious depth of reflection that has translated better into game format than any media. A Disco Elysium book wouldn't make the same sense.

Immortal Game.

If you're the type of person to crank your speech up to 100 right away on Fallout, this game is for you.

This game was stolen from the original devs, they no longer make any money off this game
Instead, acquire it through other means, get creative

With that out of the way, this game is 10/10. A fantastic experience that I would recommend to anyone