Disco Elysium Playlist for Studying, Work, Relaxing (and contemplating life)

All right belong to their respective owners - ZA/UM, the creators of this fantastic & unique RPG, and British Sea Power (now named Sea Power), the band behind the excellent moody soundtrack.
Tracklist
0:00 Instrument of Surrender
5:24 Detective Arriving on the Scene
10:20 Whirling-In-Rags (8 a.m.)
14:50 Ignus Nilsen Waltz (Final Cut addition)
18:32 The Insulindian Miracle
20:52 Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure
23:31 Precinct 41 Major Crime Unit
27:05 Live with Me
29:43 Polyhedrons
32:52 The Cryptozoologists
35:10 Advesperascit (Final Cut addition)
44:57 La Revacholiere
49:07 Whirling-In-Rags (12 p.m.)
52:50 Off We Go Into the Wild Pale Yonder

[@fearprophetsadso7843]

Tracklist 0:00 Instrument of Surrender 5:24 Detective Arriving on the Scene 10:20 Whirling-In-Rags (8 a.m.) 14:50 Ignus Nilsen Waltz (Final Cut addition) 18:32 The Insulindian Miracle 20:52 Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure 23:31 Precinct 41 Major Crime Unit 27:05 Live with Me 29:43 Polyhedrons 32:52 The Cryptozoologists 35:10 Advesperascit (Final Cut addition) 44:57 La Revacholiere 49:07 Whirling-In-Rags (12 p.m.) 52:50 Off We Go Into the Wild Pale Yonder

[@sineauctoritas281]

Thx so much

[@simonewilcock3316]

“Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”

[@bwackbeedows3629]

5:24 _Inland Empire [Medium: SUCCESS]_ - *DETECTIVE*

[@danielgilliam8327]

Sometimes my life just feels like Whirling-in-Rags at 8AM, but sometimes it be like Whirling-in-Rags at 12PM.

[@mrksjke]

My life is just constant Polyhedrons

[@lotanowo]

How much different would it be at 8am than at noon? It's a 4 hour difference in the morning.

[@danielgilliam8327]

@@lotanowo Its the name of 2 different songs mate. One being Whirling-in-Rags at 8AM and the other being Whirling-in-Rags at 12PM. The music changes at Whirling-in-Rags throughout the day.

[@lotanowo]

@@danielgilliam8327 you’re right, I forgot about that, though I had a feeling this was on purpose

[@BoolyK]

Those are two pretty good things

[@GRAHAMWADE-zi9iv]

The fact that Disco Elysium may end being a once off experience is the most Disco Elysium thing ever

[@vespenegas261]

This most importent thing about it is that DE made people to debate, not argue.

[@shubhod9569]

I feel like the world of disco elysium deserves so much more, book series, movies, tv shows, more games, theres so much lore to explore...

[@hollowman9410]

I have hope that someone will make a fan-game one day

[@cosimocub]

the original devs will make a spiritual successor@@hollowman9410

[@cosimocub]

yeah lets Disney it!@@shubhod9569

[@mixererunio1757]

Here as ZA/UM is slowly dying. But don't cry they are gone. Smile at what they achieved. Disco Elysium will always be in our hearts.

[@Jenjak]

I hope not. They are currently hiring new staff.

[@DeroriMusic]

@@Jenjak Yes but the original creative staff and directors have been fired. Unfortunately any new Disco games will be hollow mimicries of the original.

[@tommygunmitvierm724]

@@DeroriMusic And the original Author of the Book the universe is based on is suing ZA/UM most likely to get the rights for it back. Hope he wins.

[@tommygunmitvierm724]

@@MrRicktastic Already happened a year ago or so. It just recently came to light though. Basically the investors from Londond kicked out the original members of the ZA/UM collective and the wirters and I think creative Director of the ZA/UM studio. So, the studio in it current state has not a lot to do anymore with the DE creators. Now they have job postings looking for "Monetisation Experts" and might do a TV show with Amazon, which considering the themes of DE is a slap in the face for the fans and creators of course.

[@MGSVxBreakpoint]

@@tommygunmitvierm724 "No superiors can relieve me of my duty, you bulldozed them all to a mass grave for trying to free humanity." -Iosef Lilianovich Dros

[@jonsson666]

Disco Elysium was one of the greatest entertainment experiences I ever had.

[@Ottrond]

art 🎨 ?

[@tomasgomez1906]

@@Ottrond yes

[@Ottrond]

agreed! agreed!

[@richardleshik7477]

Recomend you to try Pathologic 2))

[@mthom0516]

Greatest artistic experience of 2021, for sure.

[@doyokgonzalez]

Perception (Legendary: Success): "From the radio computer, you heard a sound. Barely perceptible, at first, but then, it grows louder. No, not just a sound. It is a music" Conceptualization: "The music touches you. First, your ear. Then, your heart. And finally, your soul. You feel at peace" Drama: "This music is a masterpiece, sire. You should enjoy it." Volition: "Yes, let us take a rest and take it all in. The investigation can wait" You: "Kim, do you mind if we stop for a while and listen to the music?" Kim: He smiles, albeit faintly. "Yes, I suppose we can have a momentary break"

[@silentobserver4425]

God tier comment.

[@duatia5315]

I’d like to get some input from my necktie first, if you don’t mind

[@user-kc5ew4kq1c]

ELECTROCHEMISTRY: LET THE MUSIC GO THROUGH YOUR BODY. FIND SOME DRUGS, PARTYCOP. VOLITION: Don't let him ruin the moment, be sober and enjoy the music. EMPATHY: I agree. Finally you feel happy at least for an hour.

[@muffinbucketman]

I love this comment

[@yari4046]

unrealistic, we all know kim is on that 24/7 sigma male grindset

[@gesucristo2357]

"you take the engine Kim, i'll hold the boombox"

[@user-cr3ut3cl3c]

This music is too emotional to be labeled as "relaxing". It gives me very strong melancholic feeling, and I can't stop thinking about all that unmerited shit our world is filled with

[@zacharycole3054]

But see to me that point is absolutely valid but the game also gives an answer to that feeling. The idea that giving into that melancholy is just as bad as the unmerited shit. To me, it’s a beautiful game about getting knocked down and getting back up. Addressing, then Compressing your shit and trying your best to be a better person for it. Harry got up every time, and so can I.

[@juanrosias4434]

Disco Elysium can turn a KZbin comment section into a collection of mildly pretentious but obviously sincere and vulnerable descriptions of the emotional connection internet strangers have with it's SOUNDTRACK and that's real power, my dude.

[@holliswilliams8426]

You're right bro. Big respect my dude.

[@colin-campbell]

Overly pretentious**

[@JH-up5zj]

You can't be pretentious and sincere, my dude.

[@sirmount2636]

@@JH-up5zj Psuedo-intellectual yet sincere, is another way of putting it.

[@welpaa]

its* soundtrack

[@Acrylescent]

This game dug into me. When I played my first play through I was a jaded disillusioned detective that was sick and tired of the system. Luckily not an alcoholic, but this game spoke to me very deeply and made me realize I was done with law enforcement. It had ripped my humanity from me, made me mentally ill, made me depressed and sick all the time. This game was a microcosm of my entire career. Over a decade of death and seeing people being ground up in the machine changed me for good, but this game gave me hope.

[@TheDrFunkenstein]

Tried to relax got PTSD instead. 10/10

[@Poitisan]

I just tried to bake a cake. Thank heavens everything was in the oven by the time La Revacholiere hit, cause I'm fucking bawling

[@iseilar]

If anybody can study, work or relax while listening to this instead of starting to contemplate your life, past experiences, love lost and found, breakups, or sadness...particularly at Live With Me and The Revacholian...I congratulate you...and teach me how you did it.

[@user-xw7kp2ye6c]

Yeah, The Insulindian Miracle just makes me think about... things About how the game's world setting is so tragic, and how this all Pale thing sounds kinda similar to space in our world

[@michimatsch5862]

I do it. I suffered through three periods of depression, psychosis and suffer from chronic pain. I just learned to be at peace with it all...Most of the time. You just learn to cherish those few moments where the pain isn't that strong or maybe even rarely just not there. So...sorry, can't teach you. But you'll get there, it might just get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.

[@vaahtobileet]

@@user-xw7kp2ye6c I kind of thought of the Pale as a metaphor for global warming.

[@iseilar]

@@user-xw7kp2ye6c yeah, reminds me of something deep, like the space exploration or the fact that we all will perish without knowing answers to some of the important questions...

[@iseilar]

@@michimatsch5862 I have a love hate relationship with those tracks. On one hand, I find them incredibly beautiful and one of the most emotional music that I had ever listened to, on the other hand when I am listening to them it feels like falling into neverending pit...like in a good way...but in a bad way. It has a "On the Nature of Daylight" by Max Richter kind of a vibe to it (do not listen to it if you do not want to relive the most emotional memories from your past)

[@francescobevilacqua4241]

"Detective arriving on the scene" is you waking up, you wait some time as the tiredness goes away, you take a walk outside and get emotional by the smallest piece of joy you can find in your day, you smile and take a breath, you say "it's worth it".

[@parker9588]

The soft glow of the fuel pre-heater gauge

[@nicholaslornadek8234]

RIP to ZA/UM, it was great while it lasted

[@karhu7581]

"Un jour je serai de retour près de toi"

[@old_perdun_ya]

Lofi hip-hop alcoholic playlist for selfdestuction depressed guys who lost their memories and live in world that is collapsing each day

[@PerryMeison77]

"This is real darkness. It is not death, not war, not child abuse. Real darkness has a face of love. The first death is in the heart, Harry." I'm 32 years old, I've been playing video games since I was a kid. From the moment I finished Disco Elysium I realised that I was in for something truly extraordinary, so much so that I have no words to describe the experience. It's the best game I've ever played, after a while I open the game, I walk around Revachol and I feel a strange sense of familiarity, I feel "at home". I grew to love all the characters, they are so well characterised that I came to understand them and above all I felt sympathy and pity for Harry. Without a doubt, this is a masterpiece that transcends the world of videogames. Sorry for my bad english.

[@sharibyaku]

your English is literally perfect

[@maicolclaudioshotgunkatana5673]

wait for DE2!!! i hope

[@cia4u401]

mfers really do be like "Deepest apologies for any and all improper use of the English language in my transcribed thoughts, my dearest."

[@CrispyGFX]

Your English is better than 99% of native English speakers.

[@sweet-lara]

You shouldn't be sorry by not being good in a language that is not your main one.

[@laurenbastin8849]

British Sea Power really knocked it out of the park with soundtrack for this game. Every song managed to be distinctive, an enjoyable listen and also a perfect match for the environment it plays in and the emotions it’s meant to inspire. Like Martinaise, and Revachol as a whole, there’s this somber feeling of failure and regret for long gone tragedies within the songs, but always some element of hope, of stubborn optimism glinting under the surface. Elysium is a world that it is utterly fucked, the Insulindic a continent permanently scarred by the failure of the communist dream that was so brutally put down, and yet even as you yourself struggle not to be swallowed by the void, finding comfort in oblivion over being confronted by your past mistakes or worse having to accept that they have happened and truly move on from them… there still remain characters, like Acele or Cindy, Steban, Egg Head, Noid and Andre, the youth of revachol, who are determined to make something new from this rubble of a world. As such I’ve always found it weird when people describe the game as nihilistic or cynical, because I really feel that the game at its core is a refutation of those ideas: everything is fucked, and we can’t undo history, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still forge a new future

[@kristapsmuravjovs7061]

Ok, I was about to eat, so I was looking for a video to watch, saw this playlist, remembered how incredible it and the game was (didn't finish it, so guess what I'm playing tonight), then read your comment and kinda teared up while listening to Instrument of surrender. I think you are absolutely right about the game and the soundtrack (thanks for the band name btw, they are utterly amazing). I personally associate them both primarily with my own experience - the soul-tearing existential woe of realising how limited our time here is, that there will be a last time with every single person (and pet :( ) I know and love, one way or another; with me failing myself and others; with my struggle to embrace much needed change and other personal inadequacies. But at the same time the game and especially the soundtrack remind me how absolutely, incredibly gorgeous existance on this planet is, how there is always a warm glimmer of love, hope and joy just for their own sake, both within and without. This bittersweet mixture of somber melacholy and joyful gratitude has always been somewhere on my mind, sometimes background, sometimes foreground, and I too both love and hate it, but if someone came to me and offered to magically remove this specific feeling from my mind, I would refuse without a second thought. Seeing the beauty in the smallest things and always having love in my heart is well worth the melancholy, I think. And now my damn soup is cold.

[@valensky3339]

@@kristapsmuravjovs7061 My cereal got soggy too, don't worry about it. Just small sacrifices we make on the road to a deeper understanding of ourselves and eachother. :)

[@kristapsmuravjovs7061]

@@valensky3339 NO, IT GOT COLD AND Y'ALL ARE AT FAULT! Just kidding obviously, I love nothing more than to see likeminded people not only ponder, but also really feel a similar way I do - usually it doesn't matter, but when it comes to this kind of tough-to-formulate, deep, if you will, stuff, I sometimes feel really isolated and alone, so a cold dinner is better than a cold heart, I say, haha. Cheers, much love!

[@orekusic3584]

Just gonna be that guy and point out that Egg is 40 or something 😊

[@richardnipples7574]

It's a big dirty wall waiting to be drawn on

[@btarczy5067]

Disco Elysium was an experience. I went into it with my apathetic gamer brain and it made me feel something. Even the small side stories were written with such empathy and sometimes crushed me in a very good way. The music captured and enhanced the atmosphere so well and I‘ll come back to this video again. I probably won’t replay the game any time soon because I feel like my story in Disco Elysium was told. It‘s not the kind of game in which I‘d want to unlock every ending.

[@cyberdiver7076]

Yeah even when I replayed it, I still chose the same path.

[@bigburd875]

My life currently feels like instrument of surrender, but I know it's gonna feel like Whirling in rags 8 am soon

[@gusngregg5127]

"I'll wake up, in a new life. Down by the seaside" Harry, my friend

[@sfmzero3931]

the writing was also excellent: This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart, Harry. "Harry, that's because you're a cop with 'fuck the world' written on his back." or Rhetoric: Hey, psst. You: Who - me? Rhetoric: Yes, you. Word on the street is you're ready to start building *communism* again! You: "Again"? Rhetoric: Yes - you're ready to start building communism *again*. You've built it before, *they've* built it before. Hasn't really worked out yet, but neither has *love* - should we just stop building love, too? You: Can't argue with that. Rhetoric: So, what about all that communism you've promised to build? Word on the street is you've woken up from a thousand years of slumber, promising to erect a version of communism many times greater than any attempted before. Is that true? You: How come there's *word on the street*? Rhetoric: You keep saying things like *down with the bourgeoisie*, *eat the rich*, *sodomize the land-owners*, *impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket*, *literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs* - that kind of stuff. You: Oh, right. That sounds like me.

[@baronjutter]

you can tell this game was written by actual communists because man, being a communist in the game is a fucking gut punch.

[@afrocrumble8721]

LONG LIVE REVACHOL!!! DEATH TO THE PUTRID COMMUNISTS

[@antonkartohin4682]

​ You: (Roll up your sleeves and start building Communism.) Rhetoric: Oh yeah! Get the firing squads and the animal wagons ready! You: Wait, what? Firing squads? You didn't say anything about those. Rhetoric: Too late to back out now. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few million eggs!

[@MantaRochenHL]

This game came out of nowhere for me and will stay with me for ever. This ranks just as high like the best works of literature and filmmaking.

[@guisardyannick2973]

I haven't read books for years, Disco Elysium reminds me the happiness of reading

[@1991Argentino]

Disco Elysium is not a game, it's a DEEP EXPERIENCE. I'm an ex-cop and I find this game overwhelming...It's indescriptible.

[@dezlovecraft5247]

"Instrument of Surrender" sounds like a version of valiant hymn just after its defeat, the morning after. The only thing left is to rise once again, recolect the scraps and keep on living.

[@Outuition]

Sunrise Parabellum

[@dankmemerino1473]

canonically i'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is

[@davidchaladze1082]

Which also really fits hangover atmosphere

[@moldplayer5432]

"For a moment, there was hope."

[@arbuz_kawon]

My grandma died today morning. I love her very much, and I'm happy she didn't have to suffer a long time. The music fits perfectly, thank you, I didn't know I'll mourn in Revachol.

[@fearprophetsadso7843]

Very sorry to hear that, my condolences and I hope you find some solace. There's a lot of melancholy and sadness to the games' soundtrack, but hopefully it's also a reminder of all the fleeting joy and beautiful moments we had & can have with our loved ones. Take care!

[@arbuz_kawon]

​@@fearprophetsadso7843 Oh, it definitely is hopeful, I think! I'm Polish, I really resonated with the world of Disco Elysium. For me it was a story about finding meaning and a purpose for yourself in a very scarred, very beautiful world.

[@jeremytitus9519]

Après le monde, le gris. Après le gris, le monde encore 🌍🌫🌫🌫🌏

[@i_am_the_arm]

@@arbuz_kawon współczuję, stary... I życzę powodzenia. Muzyka jest naprawdę niesamowita, jak i sama gra

[@andrepasadas6690]

Un Jour Je Serai de Retour Prés de Toi...

[@kittygirl9000]

beat disco elysium after an excruciating break-up that ended up fracturing my friend group and forcing me into homelessness. harrier du bois is the only person in the world who understands how i feel. a bit pathetic considering he's an amnesiac blank-slate in a video game designed to reflect the player's worldview; but still. disco elysium /gets/ me. and i get it. broke down crying during that one dream sequence. if you've beaten the game you know the one. the one with the apricots and the video rental. had an extremely similar thing happen to me just last month. it hurts. but art helps. better a shifting, beautiful expressionist oil painting given life and sound than the bottom of a bottle; no offense to the detective. thanks harry; if you can keep yourself together through all that bullshit then i can too.

[@ninja3212]

Hey man, I'm sorry to hear that you had to go through that. Just know that one day you'll find that phasmid, even if it seems ethereal and unattainable at the moment. For now, keep on trekking along, hobocop.

[@Menag2011]

For me Disco Elysium is a game about finding yourself. In times like these we all get lost often, but we should remeber about our values, our rules, and above all else what kind of people we want to be. Just like in Disco Elysium. U sometimes wake up thinking all the shit u done wasn't you. It takes real courage to say "I fucked up, but i wanna get better".

[@malachorfives]

me cklicking on this thinking I'm gonna study to this but then I hear the first note and immediately start bursting into tears clutching my chest gasping for air closing the tab lying face down on the floor for one hour trying to recover from the emotional whiplash

[@TheRealOod]

Detective?

[@jorgemanuel7959]

@@TheRealOod Arriving on the scene!!

[@Poitisan]

You should get a comfier chair.

[@hr3nk]

For every soul out there. There is still hope, no matter what you are going through. There is an answer to your question that might not even been asked yet, and you will find it.

[@Poszlakowaneopinie]

I came here to study, work and relax, but ended contemplating life

[@castillogrande8926]

This game feels like a memory. No I will not explain.

[@TheGuwrovsky]

Authority: nor should you!

[@BoolyK]

Electrochemistry: it's all a memory baby! A sweet, cold, synapse of something or another. The best part is its someone else's problem now. Now the party really starts!

[@you_gullible_fucc]

I clicked onto this video thinking that disco elysium was a type of music genre, like electro swing, but I was surprised that it was actually a game of some sort (also that people in the comments really hold it close to their heart.) I may not know the sentimental value of this music to a lot of people, but man, hearing that first track with the melancholic trumpets playing sent me way back to a "golden age" in my childhood that was as bittersweet as the trumpets played. I've since been trying to look for a music compilation that plays that specific emotion of music without any luck until now. So even as someone who doesn't know much about the game itself, I really appreciated this video

[@kentknightofcaelin4537]

Maybe you should play it! It's really good.

[@KasixMarhiil]

Oh my god!! It's back up!!

[@fearprophetsadso7843]

Surprised me too. Hope it will stay up and that you'll have many great listening hours! Cheers!

[@user-ur2ws7pd8i]

@@fearprophetsadso7843 Yeahhh!!! Thank you for great list. I'm also so happe that it's back here. it's ideal for deep thinking on something or for work, studying. Have a nice 2024 year))

[@frogery]

No hyperbole, I put this on to listen to while I work, and for 5 minutes I stared at the screen feeling my heart slowly sink. It wasn't until the first track ended that I realized where I was. And now the 2nd track is playing and I know this is not something I can listen to while trying to focus on something else.

[@3run3r]

La Revacholiere just breaks me every time man

[@gravynavy516]

spent an afternoon drunk as hell and crying my eyes out listening to songs like polyhedrons and the cryptozoologists, just like in game

[@ZuhaLoveMusic]

Something so special about this game, every character, speech and music.

[@nikerboker1995]

man as soon as The Insulindian Miracle came on, I knew I couldn't work with this on without having an existential crisis

[@sandpaperseat3228]

Whirling rags am is the perfect morning track uplifting as hell

[@YOURNOTSAFEAGAIN]

I am Drunk. I am High, I am... HERE... i am listening to the same sounds that you all are and i feel myself living. I hope that you all feel youjrselves lving as well, because in this day and age it is so hard to feel living thaT we almost forget to. Remember what it feels to live and hold onto that memory, because thats is the last thing we have to give us hope in our darkest times, when we believer that everything is lost the last hope we have is to feel living. I hope sincerely tht you all feel alive... at least while you listen to this..

[@wade8960]

Sometimes when I have difficulty focusing on schoolwork I can listen to Instrument of Surrender and just imagine myself on the balcony of the Whirling-in-Rags. Then I feel calm and focused, like I can feel the gusty Revacholian wind piercing my clothes and waking me up enough to concentrate on the task at hand. Enjoy your days everybody.

[@TGabrielTPOI]

I get goosebumps every time I listen to this soundtrack. Been playing games for more than 25 years. Been working in development for more than 10 years and I can say without any doubt that Disco Elysium is my favourite game of all time. ZA/UM if you read this... you created a masterpiece that touched souls.

[@TGabrielTPOI]

@Fundamentally Unorothdox I am still a Bioshock fan but now with Ken Levine gone I don't have high hopes for the franchise anymore.

[@AlleywayJack]

ZA/UM nailed this game it's one of the best things i ever played. But I did just read that their shareholders have forced out Kurvitz and all the key creators/founders.... so screw that company from now on.

[@TGabrielTPOI]

@@AlleywayJack yeah, I have seen that… ZA/UM is now looking for a monetization specialist to develop "lifecycle monetization strategies" and "live service content" for an upcoming game… RIP ZA/UM RIP Disco Elysium universe

[@awolpeace1781]

Ever, ever, ever...BaBy Get them reptile brain parts speaking

[@KitMikit]

I don't know why this soundtrack feels so... cold to me? I actually kinda hated it during the game. It sounds like the wind that goes through hollow & lifeless homes amidst winter. I'm from one of the Post-USSR countries, it catches the winter mood (& depression that comes with it) around here quite well.

[@blankblankson2563]

I think that’s kind of the point. It’s the unique combination of depression and bitter sweet memories that comes with a poverty stricken place in winter. It’s something people in the northern United States know to well these days.

[@theslavbeing335]

as a ukrainian, i completely understand you.

[@ldSt3345]

@@theslavbeing335 as a ukrainian, i completely disagree. I find this OST rather life-asserting, even the saddest pieces of it. The game is about falling, hitting the very bottom, but standing again to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. And soundtrack praises it as well. So, it depends not on the country of origin, but rather on the listener himself. One hears what he wants to hear.

[@theslavbeing335]

@@ldSt3345 I didn't say that i agree with the author, just that i understand. For me it was also very upbringing and good to hear. There is a lot of sadness and loss in the soundtrack, but a lot of hope and kindness too, and the atmosphere in that game was amazing.

[@theslavbeing335]

@@ldSt3345 Кстати, Слава Україні :)

[@Farnfreund]

Yeh so this game was part of a very important moment in the history of my chronically depressed emotional life. While not the trigger itself it played a siginificant role during some days in which a new important development started to take place. It came exactly at the right time. A few years ago it might have meant little to nothing to me. While the story and character development were surely important -especially in the first few hours of the game- it was that soundtrack that hit me hard. To this day I still got some of those melodies stuck in my head and I am indescribably grateful for that. They still support me coping, growing, and simply not giving up. Thanks to whoever is responsible for that. Cheers

[@senfood]

Whirling-In-Rags iis such a vibe.

[@VincentGSMusic]

This game and its soundtrack help me navigate the most difficult path of my life, so far; in a moment of isolation and disconnection that seems to have no end. The mood matches mine perfectly: a mixture of nostalgia, disillusionment, and shame. This game helps me understand that it is possible to find comfort and hope in depression, that life is not yet over, and that it is possible to embody that sadness with grace.

[@122josh]

This game is so so special I just started playing the final cut like a week a go and its just incredible the writing, the world, the music and the deep themes running through the game its just all so well realized its hard to believe this was ZA/UM's first game its a 10/10 experience so far.

[@skmo7072]

totally it's mind blowing

[@wurzzzz]

I love it and I hope that they make another adventure game. I would love if it shares the same setting (I think new characters or locale might actually benefit the writers though), but I would take anything created with as much love and passion as Disco Elysium.

[@engliships2126]

@@wurzzzz it looks like they are working on a sci fi game now, which sound incredibly exciting. I hope they call it "disco infinitum".

[@beepbop1762]

I'm here mourning the loss of the three minds behind this game. ZAUM made a big mistake ousting those three from the company :-(

[@swagmeister633]

they are preparing a lawsuit

[@711ish]

it feels like a cool wind in the morning, dont know how to explain, very refreshing

[@MadelineSawyer]

I work at my university's library and love listening to the 12pm Whirling-In-Rags theme when I shelve books away at night

[@freemindrebel-zj6jc6qy9f]

8 am and 12 pm on my morning/evening alarm

[@sharinganmoon]

This game makes me so fucking emotional good god. it's a fucking masterpiece.

[@ScreamingYeen]

Disco Elysium came to me at the right time. It brought up things I thought I was over, and some things I wasn't aware it looked like from the outside... I dont wanna go so far as to say it saved me, but wow did it help me put down the bottle.

[@rodrigonieto4179]

Oh god, I've had antidepressants and some vodka. My head is spinning and it feels great, I'm having the moment of my life. Life is wonderful

[@darkroastordeath]

In Instrument of surrender, its like I can hear the sound of the trumpets echoing off the water and smell the salt and grime of the docks. What a sublime pairing of experiences.

[@sieraparagon]

It was good while it lasted.

[@user-hg1oj4op3z]

I finished this game a year ago and still think about it almost every day. Shit leaves a scar, man

[@orphaotheseeker2770]

By far the best gaming experience I've ever had, was Disco Elysium. Don't know when or even if I will ever replay it, the game was definitely an experience.

[@thespacedisland5746]

Whirling-in-rags 8AM is an unbelievably comfy song to listen to while studying in my university's empty library late at night

[@Rexcarsalot]

If anybody tells you that video games can't be art, tell them to play Disco Elysium.

[@icycottoncandies4156]

When "Off We Go Into The Wild Pale Yonder" plays, I get such a powerful thrum of emotion in my stomach, going up my throat, all throughout my body.. can't tell if I want to cry, throw up, or start anew. Thanks for uploading this wonderful playlist.

[@KaroSword]

Hey friend, This mix is great! I've been teaching yoga classes to it. It's made me feel good. Thank you!

[@yololol6880]

that first track just hits me with so much nostalgia, this game helped me survive during the early pandemic

[@user-ml6kd7vs2x]

Я юн и мне 19 но переживания бомжекопа мне очень близки утрата потеря самобичевание в конце концов... Слабость воли и неумение отпускать свои ошибки рефлексия и много мелонхоличной атмосферы из которой сложно выбраться но игра мне говорит что это нормально все мы уязвимы и только приняв свой слабости мы можем двигаться в перёд! Спасибо за внимание.

[@msp654]

I had three tests and a paper last week. I got an extension on the paper and have been working on it for all of this week. Looping this has kept me sane. Many thanks

[@pesto841]

Inland Empire: This shit got me pondering so hard it healed a cold

[@kenkaneki6969_]

Revachol will live forever in our hearts and in our amazing memories of this masterpiece of a game.

[@crt_head]

I'm listening to this, eating french fries and crying, but It is not sadness, I revel in it. It is pure joy, a rapture of emotion, an admiration for the deepness of the heart, the capacity for triumph in the darkest moments, a perfect feeling in an imperfect being, forelsket and saudade in one. I *feel* human.

[@RHTrix]

Bought the final cut on sale and got through everything recently. A beautifully written story.

[@tenfivesmiths7802]

HOW you can listen to this and not have images of the unrelenting oceans waves, social interactions and your own (voluntarily) absence out of all it is beyond me. It just pulls you in, so easily, with a couple of chords

[@reubenco]

I actually listened to this playlist while reading The Name of the Rose. Didn’t even notice the username it was uploaded by until later on.

[@fearprophetsadso7843]

It is an amazing book indeed :)

[@kristapsmuravjovs7061]

Edit: forgot to say thank you for the upload, thank you for the upload, you. There are many, many great, hell, maybe even formative games I've played, but Disco Elysium really takes the cake, and the extentially-somber love that seeps through the soundtrack and how well it went with the general tone, and the incredible visual artstyle is a huge, huge part of why I love it so much. It felt like it was tugging on the deepest, most profound strings of my soul, and it did so gently and true, like it was my oldest, most beloved friend - who's embrace I long for, but whom I love too much to be impatient with as they are nothing but love and joyful patience. The fact that we, humans (it's communism baby) can come up with something like this makes me grateful and hopeful, and that's super precious to me.

[@jonnytorres664]

i owe u my fucking LIFE (and subsequent degree)

[@Isaac-rp7hl]

Whirling in rags 8am has lyrics! It’s called Fire Escape in the Sea by Sea Power

[@Mauricio0973]

ZA/UM, you'll always be legends

[@AlleywayJack]

Not now they've sacked the guys that created this game so they could sell the rights to Amazon.

[@maryryan1571]

I tried to study while listening to this music and instead I cried for an hour while watching the snow fall outside my window, would not recommend

[@alesnaumovich2509]

Yeah, I'm trying not to tear up too during listening Whirling-In-Rags (8 a.m.) because of realization of the fact that we might never see the sequel of of this true piece of art. It's almost physically painful

[@morganrosenfeld5917]

Do you ever become aware that time has passed? This morning I watched fog roll in on a video game I suddenly remembered being around 13 or 14 and playing Minecraft with a friend on her Xbox while our parents talked after lunch in the next room and was then hit by the realization that that time of my life is completely gone and I can never go back to those days. It wasn't even like some check engine light turned on in brain that signaled me being an adult. It was every little step towards leaving childhood behind; it's every time I think my father is right about me needing a nectar card; it's struggling to chose which type of bread I should buy at the store. Tears and scratches that are imperceptible on their own but add up to me being someone wholly different while wholly the same.

[@HansAlRachid]

Aside maybe from Planescape: Torment and a couple parts of Deus Ex, this is pretty much the one and only game I've played over the many, many years I've been playing videogames that I would genuinely consider well-written, non-derivative and thoughtful.

[@ydbarret22]

must play planetscape then

[@HansAlRachid]

@@ydbarret22 I highly recommend it for sure! Just be prepared for some clunkiness, as the game is simply pretty old at this point.

[@Turtle1631991]

I would add KOTOR II which was written by the same guy as Planescape. Even used some of the material left over from it.

[@engliships2126]

I'll add fallout nv to that list. I think it's one of the most well-written crpg's to date

[@mounorman]

What a game What a soundtrack so many emotions my Inland Empire is tingling A mastrpiece of our Lifetime Glad we where here to experiance it

[@rosvlinds]

Live With Me is among my favorite soundtrack pieces of all time.. ultimate melancholy

[@gaaraofsabaku]

I can't tell if the intense feeling of nostalgia is conjured up by the tracks themselves, or they come from having played the game.

[@grahamwalker2168]

I don't know if any sky can be as beautiful as a disco elysium sky...

[@britishteapower]

The power of SEA POWER!

[@user-uu9lf2cq1p]

I don't really sure that I would listen to this music if I didn't play the game. But I played. And that’s why I’m delighted with this music, I’ve been listening to it for a long time and many times and I can’t stop.

[@user-xw7kp2ye6c]

I just now noticed that "The Cryptozoologists" is a guitar cover of "La Revacholiere" and I absolutely love it

[@tyleryoast8299]

Why do I suddenly feel so human Like my pain maybe meant something And I'm ready for at least one true day

[@Marewig]

I love this playlist, don't get me wrong, and it's suitable for a number of purposes. In terms of productivity, though, I'm only productive half the time with this on. The other half...well, it's hard to be productive when the song just ripped your heart out from your chest and left it bleeding, lying on the floor. It's an exquisite pain called nostalgia, though, so I keep playing it again from time to time. :/

[@VladislavFrolov-kz8ei]

happy to see this playlist back! I really missed it for the last 1,5-2 years Now will save it for sure

[@Mackenzie1942]

In short, the music reminds me the days when my parents were still young.

[@fedhori4407]

I can't describe how it feels like when I listen this playlist.

[@MrCram]

Im so happy this is back, so I can thank you for making this. This playlist is what got me to play the game in the first place.

[@mkitten88]

спасибо за гениев, кто написал музыку для Disco Elysium

[@vj7248]

Missed opportunity to have Kim in a Lowfi girl type gif loop

[@romeyperakovich7935]

I want to eternal sunshine of the spotless mind myself so I can play this game again fresh.

[@chelloveckbratty3982]

Holy shit, no way one can concentrate with "Off We Go Into the Wild Pale Yonder", I managed to get the "mantis" ending first try (Impossible and it was really late, so I decided I wouldnt save scum) and that broke me, afterwards I could only listen that final song, I literally went to go hug my brother after that and I will never forget that moment... Anyway may you find your light in this dark yet beautiful place and don't be afraid to ask for help.

[@basil7292]

i got that mantis ending too first try

[@NahuelPavano]

is there a no mantis ending?

[@Vinny3571]

Disco Elysium influenced me similar to how some books or movies made me rethink my life. I would say it’s likely the only video game to make me feel like that. Thank you for the experience ZA/UM.

[@MythicFox]

You have returned to our side.