Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
There is no fighting in the usual sense in the detective RPG Disco Elysium. Conflicts are settled through conversation and skill checks, where the game rolls two six-sided dice. There are 24 skills, and each of them can speak up on its own and nudge you toward a choice.
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The Final Cut edition of 2021 gave full voice acting to nearly a hundred characters. The narrator and every skill were voiced by Lenval Brown, singer of the London band Maroon Town, which plays a mix of ska and rap. He had never done voice work before and recorded his audition on his phone. He spent about eight months recording around 350,000 words.
The Final Cut also added four political quests reworked from material cut from the original.
At The Game Awards 2019 the game won in all four categories it was nominated in. One reviewer wanted more role-playing choice and more focus, and at launch the PlayStation versions of The Final Cut had bugs that made some quests impossible to finish. Players leave 92% positive out of 119,271 reviews; critics give it 97 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #35 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try Planescape: Torment, which the authors took as a model, with its amnesiac hero and focus on dialogue, and ZERO PARADES: Director's Cut, ZA/UM's next game in the same narrative and art style.
Major updates
Introducing Collage Mode · Mar 2023All 4
System requirements
Minimum 2 GB RAM · 20 GB✓Steam Deck VerifiedMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7 | Windows 7/8/10 |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo | Intel Core i7 or AMD 1800 equivalent |
| Memory | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| Graphics | DirectX 11 compatible video card (integrated or dedicated with min 512MB memory) | NVIDIA Geforce 1060 or equivalent |
| DirectX | 11 | 11 |
| Storage | 20 GB | 20 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
