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[stressfulsloth]

hey! what the helllll is disco elysium? i've been seeing it and it looks interesting and. i'm asking you rn bc i like ur pfp:)

hey! thanks lol my pfp is my dnd character :))

Disco Elysium is an incredible game made by a group of Estonian communists. Following a colossal world-shattering bender, your character, a detective of the Revachol Citizen's Militia, wakes in a hostel room with no memory and over the next few days has to put the pieces of his life back together while also attempting to solve a murder and uncovering details of the unfamiliar world he's living in. He has help from the set of skills who live in his head and give him suggestions, and from his police partner, Kim Kitsuragi, as he tries to navigate this unfamiliar world and the cast of characters who populate it; delinquent kids, angry cafeteria managers, cryptid hunters, communist students, union men, speedfreaks, programmers.

The game has really gorgeous writing and oscillates between poetic and hilarious. The world building is rich and interesting, and lends itself very well to theorising. It has some very heavy themes- mental illness, disability, masculinity, capitalism, colonialism, morality of policing, community, love and heartbreak, addiction- and gets extremely dark in places, but one of the things I love most about it is the way it's punctuated by moments of light.