How many Disco Elysium successor studios is too many? Trick question, no such number has yet been invented. For the second time a gaggle of former ZA/UM devs has announced they're coming together to boot up a new studio. This one is called Dark Math Games, and it's working on, which is also a studio boasting DE vets that says it's working on an RPG inspired by the 2019 classic. Dark Math joins that studio, as well as Red Info and ZA/UM itself, as a pretender to the Disco crown.
It really does look like Disco Elysium, mind you, right down to the presentation of its dialogue in a strip along the right-hand side of the screen. Plus, you're a kind of cop called a"Patrol Operative" and the game calls itself a"true detective RPG." One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget.