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As originally planned, the game was to focus on action in a single city location to make the 2017 release. However, as ZA/UM had indicated to investors that this was to be a game that spanned a larger world, they found the need to spread beyond that single location, forcing them to delay the game's release, along with the name change to Disco Elysium. [14] This title plays on a few double meanings related to the word "disco"; in one sense, it refers to ideas that briefly gain the spotlight before burning out similar to the fad of disco music, and reflected in the protagonist's clothing style, while in a more literal sense, "disco" is Latin for "I learn," thus reflecting on the protagonist's overcoming his amnesia to learn about the world of Elysium. [15] Kurvitz had always anticipated the No Truce title to be more of a working title and wanted to reserve it for when they had bundled Disco Elysium with a second planned game. [15] Though ZA/UM had initially planned to publish the game through Humble Bundle, they ultimately chose to self-publish it. [21] Design, voices, and influences [ edit ]a b "2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 20 February 2020. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020 . Retrieved 28 February 2020. a b c d Brown, Fraser (19 March 2021). "Disco Elysium is getting even more political". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021 . Retrieved 19 March 2021. Price, Edward (20 April 2018). "Disco Elysium – Rezzed 2018 Interview". GameAnalytics. Archived from the original on 19 October 2019 . Retrieved 19 October 2019. O'Keefe, David (10 September 2018). "Your skills talk to you in Disco Elysium, an inventive RPG that keeps impressing". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018 . Retrieved 7 April 2020.

Otterson, Joe (26 June 2020). " 'Disco Elysium' TV Series Adaptation in the Works From 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Producer". Variety. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020 . Retrieved 26 June 2020. Gault, Matthew (19 December 2019). "The 10 Best Video Games of the 2010s". Time. Archived from the original on 8 November 2021 . Retrieved 20 December 2019. Disco Elysium takes place in the fantastic realist world of Elysium, developed by Kurvitz and his team in the years prior, which includes over six thousand years of history. [7] The game takes place in the year '51 of the Current Century. Elysium is made of "isolas," masses of land and sea that are separated from each other by the Pale, an inscrutable, mist-like "connective tissue" in which the laws of reality break down. Prolonged exposure to the Pale can cause mental instability and eventually death, and traversing the Pale, which is typically done with aerostatics, is heavily regulated due to the danger. [11]a b Metsniit, Mikk (31 March 2017). "The Hungarian Interview". ZA/UM Studio. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020 . Retrieved 8 April 2020. a b Makuch, Eddie (13 December 2019). "The Game Awards 2019 Winners: Sekiro Takes Game Of The Year". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019 . Retrieved 13 December 2019. Events in the game take place in the impoverished district of Martinaise within the city of Revachol on the isola of Insulinde, the "New New World." [1] [11] Forty-nine years before the events of the game, a wave of communist revolutions swept multiple countries; the Suzerainty of Revachol, a monarchy which up to that point had been Elysium's preeminent superpower, was overthrown and replaced by a commune. Six years later, the Commune of Revachol was toppled by an invading alliance of moralist-capitalist nations called "the Coalition." Revachol was designated a Special Administrative Region and remains firmly under Coalition control decades later. One of the few governmental responsibilities that the Coalition concedes to the people of Revachol is policing, which is carried out by the Revachol Citizens Militia (RCM), a voluntary citizens' brigade turned semi-professional police force. In fact, it’s likely you won’t have played anything quite like it. ZA/UM’s masterpiece, originally released on PC in 2019 and now available on console in the form of The Final Cut, instantly grabs you as it throws you into a grizzly murder investigation. But when your protagonist can’t even remember his name and has lost both his police badge and his shoes, how can you possibly trust him to get the job done?

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