Three New Studios Announce Disco Elysium Successors

A quick summary of all the news surrounding the flurry of studios announcing spiritual successors to Disco Elysium.
There is a new studio from Disco Elysium folks Argo Tuulik, Dora Klindžić and organiser Aleksander Gavrilovic. They reflect the true spirit of Disco Elysium and I urge you to subcribe to their mailing list and show your support.
summereternal....

[@cranialtoxicity4434]

From what I can tell, the first two projects aim to replicate the final product/style of Disco Elysium, whereas the third, Summer Eternal, aims to reproduce the spirit *behind* Disco. Which I feel will produce more fruitful results, even if they make something that looks nothing like the original.

[@The41stPrecinct]

Absolutely this!

[@Mecha_phant0m]

A good way of putting it. Definitely going to keep my eye on what each has to offer but I’m absolutely more interested in what summer eternal will bring to the table.

[@diomauia4295]

The summer eternal website was so cool

[@blehh_mae]

just from reading their manifesto, it absolutely exudes the vibe of disco elysium, and it has lenval brown working on music and voice acting so

[@Slayer-Knight]

My first reaction to Summer Eternal was that I just hope they have all the money they need to fuel the project. As we all know, and learnt even through the game, some of these artistic endeavors don't turn into anything because money just runs out. That is the careful dance that needs to happen between art and capitalism. If these guys are not going to entertain any sort of profit margin agenda, they will really need to find patronage from somebody that supports the project unconditionally and that has plenty of money to spare... Because as much as I would love for art to thrive without the need of investors, at the end of the day the people making the game have to eat. And the money to buy food and pay rent has to come from somewhere. But we all know this... But if Argo and other known faces are behind the project, I am sure the community would gladly support them, if anything at least to spite Ilmar Kompus and what remains of what was once ZAUM.

[@bringthesalsa5310]

Disco Inferno, Disco Paradiso, Disco Purgatorio

[@LCTesla]

Disco Tartarus, Disco Asphodel, Disco Elysium, Disco Styx

[@norweglad5237]

thanks manny

[@kensizhang5398]

HAHAHAHA

[@Ergoperidot]

@@LCTeslaI wanna take a ride on the disco Styx

[@anachronologist2017]

This is a highly underrated comment. Can't wait to see what studio #3 comes up with. Social revolution through video games? It's not that Farfetch'd of a concept

[@jesblabla]

Disco Elysium splitting into three separate worker co-ops all claiming to be the successor of the original is as much of a commentary on communism as the game could ever hope to be.

[@MeadowGaze]

The angle I'm taking it from is more along the lines of that shitpost format with multiple cakes and I can't say I can complain about more Discoesque content but you''re not wrong.

[@djdanese]

Change communism to detective novels and you literally have the synopsis for tsukumojuuku by maijo otaro

[@qaztim11]

Its a comentary on politics, capitalism, the game industry, reality truly is stranger than fiction

[@KittyKatty999]

Now we can have triple the Evrrat! Who can all help us find our guns!

[@arran4285]

And people will say it not the true successor while building their own "true" successor only for people to say it not the true successor while building their own "true" successor ad infinitum

[@S71ckBug]

"Something beautiful is going to happen." I feel like this quote suits this best

[@MC-115]

Le Retour

[@qaztim11]

Its honestly amazing the fact that we are getting 3 spiritual successors. Summer Eternal has the most promise since their manifesto actually read like the DE narrator in a lot of places, and they are actively trying to prevent another takeover by being the change they want to be, not to mention 2 of the 5 zaum Founders are working with the team and a lot of the original artists/writers seem to be with them. The other 3 Founders are also in another one of the studios. This might actually be the "miracle timeline" and i hope the games mention the entire rights situation and the other breakaway games in some form, showing solidarity would be great between the dev teams. I cant wait for the day where we get to see some footage of the upcoming games, they day they return to us is getting closer and closer, something beautiful is going to happen

[@vaxrvaxr]

Let's see them finish the product first.

[@Dinofaustivoro]

​@@vaxrvaxr it up to us all too, dont fall to the moralist rationality

[@bartekcalinski1221]

Truly a "Un jour je serai de retour pres de tois" moment

[@Mecha_phant0m]

I don’t want to be dismissive right away but xxx nightshift seems to be more interested in wearing the aesthetics of disco elysium like a costume then embracing its own spirit. The writing we got sounds like it’s trying to hard to replicate Robert, Helen and the others but it just doesn’t feel right, like it’s being forced in a way. Still going to keep an eye on what each studio make, this is going to be very interesting…

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

It unironically sounds like what a person who stereotypes DE as “pretentious” would think DE sounds like Major blooberteam vibes if anyone gets my drift

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Torment Numenera eagerly trying to be a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment. It had the otherworldly weirdness, but not the quirky charm or the alien but relatable and humane characters. What little I saw of xxx Nightshift feels like a 'Torment Numenera' to Disco Elysium.

[@RationaLess]

Many declared disco to be "totally dead". But now, there are live, vicious, ferocious, and sometimes communist disco-successors vying for the legacy of the crucified interactive video-novel. In this story, Ilmar Kompus is our Judas Iscariot, and the corpse of our most holy psychointrospective art project has vanished from it's grave - not because it decided to walk among us again, but because disco-necromancers each tore a limb from it, hoping to conjure something which will match - or perhaps surpass - Elysium. In this way, Disco Elysium was cast in amber. It died as it was born, in the same pristine, meaningful, and inspiring state that we first witnessed it, preserved for us to admire and aspire for. The corporate shit-peddlers who wrestled it away from creatives were so alien to the concept of art that they had no real angle to exploit and butcher it's legacy. As such, ZA/UM will remain a one-game studio, while the icon of Elysium will be forever immortalized in culture. Something beautiful is about to happen.

[@KittyKatty999]

This feels like something one of the Skills would say, like Conceptualisation or something

[@RationaLess]

@@KittyKatty999 THOUGHT GAINED: THE SECOND COMING

[@Slow1337ex]

I read all of this in Lenval Brown's voice

[@ruadhbran]

Disco isn’t dead, instead it turns out that it just got small.

[@m1lo606]

"One day i will return to your side" She kept her promise..

[@mkarg5012]

HARDCORE TO THE MEGA

[@JürgenPotzkoten-u9c]

HARDCORE!

[@KittyKatty999]

​@@JürgenPotzkoten-u9c*Is it* though?

[@breakinggood3601]

YEAH! HARDCORE!​@@KittyKatty999

[@semo9197]

NORMAL! STABLE! NORMAL! STABLE!

[@Zephyr314]

I couldn't be any happier rn.

[@sametekiz3709]

what a shitshow zaun left us.

[@The41stPrecinct]

From the rubble and all that…

[@SunnyCress]

from the ashes, the phoenix will rise

[@LaRavachole]

*"Auferstanden aus Ruinen..."*

[@exister6652]

Great video summing up the news! I'd heard scattered tidbits so having something that gathers up all those tidbits is really nice

[@ct691]

Nervous, but excited for what this means for the future of Disco Elysium. I am the most curious about Summer Eternal, as their website seems the most promising. My dream would be for the original creators to be able to buy back the rights to elysium from ZAUM, but who knows if that will ever happen. I hope one day the stars will align and we can get that true sequel to disco elysium, or some other kind of continuation of its world

[@Wanderer_bun]

Seeing this just after finally beating Disco Elysium for the first time is a HELL of an experience!

[@Jev_the_fluorescent_shrimp]

I would be thrilled to have a sequel or a prequel in the same universe, but since it's nearly impossible because of the capitalistic bitches at za/um, I'm fine with a "spiritual succesor" if the writing, the story, lore, characters, music and overall vibe are as good as DE

[@The41stPrecinct]

As Jamrock Hobo once said, we don’t necessarily need another game like Disco Elysium, we need one that’s as GOOD as Disco Elysium. Maybe we’ll get that now :)

[@qaztim11]

Since all of the 5 founders are in the breakaway companies, as long as they have the time, it will be as good if not better than DE(now that they have even more things to comment on, since the fiction of the game followed so close to reality.) I Just hope the settings are that similar

[@Jev_the_fluorescent_shrimp]

@@qaztim11 yeah that's my problem with all of this. I want elysium back, with pale and isolas, with all the massive lore Usually such projects are once in a lifetime events, you won't want to create another world when you've already created your perfection I just hope the creators still have at least 10% of their creative juices left

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

@@Jev_the_fluorescent_shrimpwhile I understand that the creators themselves want to work with this universe more? I genuinely hate this consumer tendency of “I want more of X!!!” Because 80% of the time it’s just forcing a clearly stand alone work of art to expand into something it’s not and disrespecting its integrity Why not ask for something LIKE DE? You know? New, inventive, experimental?

[@NeverbitFG]

​​@@doctordice2doctordice210 Usually I would agree with you, but here it's not really about "I want more LITERALLY Disco Elysium". It's more about "This world is so nice and coherent because it was created in 10 years via writing, ttrpg campaigns and literally a book, and now it's abandoned? How can an upstart match that quality with just a year or two?" And, of course, DE isn't a standalone, given the aforementioned book exists, that too.

[@rictuserectus6686]

Something beautiful is going to happen

[@akittycat2448]

Those NPCs whom I’ve grown attached to weren’t lying, Le Retour Sera Magnifique

[@Tommylmao]

Summer Eternal looks most promising to me, super excited to see more

[@TheM8]

I enjoyed Aleksandar Gavrilović's article, they seem to have a good plan.

[@qaztim11]

The presentation and writing felt like it was the Disco Narrator

[@commieblock1917]

Summer Eternal is a glimpse into the unknown bright future.

[@vaxrvaxr]

I enjoyed the all caps eye sore, totall not unhinged manifesto, with the reasonable business plan of gimme money then we'll see.

[@LucasSampaioMaia]

Something beautiful is about to happen

[@Someone-wr4ms]

I have 0 clue wtf summer eternal could be, but out of the three, this is the one that has Disco Elysium written all over it... even if it's something way too different like a fps game or something dumb like that, I'm sure they are gonna deliver the feels

[@wfogapgfahfnog35]

"...In another world, for new people."

[@ile1237]

Dysco Elysium has become the Rome of gaming at this point.

[@LiteralmenteJogos]

The voice in that trailer...kinda remind me of the female voice of Shivers skills. Is that her? Or am I just hearing things?

[@Jev_the_fluorescent_shrimp]

I LITERALLY THOUGHT THE SAME

[@The41stPrecinct]

It is very similar but can’t be sure if it’s the same person!

[@zaxer1169]

Don't need a high perception to see how excited this should make us Also hearing that Shivers esq voice again was chilling

[@FoolsGil]

A co-op anti capitalist video game company? There may be 3 - 5 spiritual successors to DE, but only 1 spiritual successor to what ZA-UM was originally founded on.

[@wafasuliman7948]

Please keep us updated!

[@literallyjustgrass]

I CANNOT believe how on brand this is 😂

[@TheONLYFeli0]

As a game developer making my own disco elysium inspired game... I'm anxious now...

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

Are we talking the borderline clone? “Heavily inspired” territory Or are you doing something actually unique like DE did, finding a uniquely video game way of weaving characterization, story, character with gameplay?

[@TheONLYFeli0]

@@doctordice2doctordice210 I'm doing some mysterious fourth thing. Just kidding. I'd say the last two. So I guess that's not bad? I'm exercising this strategy called "Shutting The Hell Up About It And Only Talking About It To My Close Friends" strategy, though. I'll tell you that it's a cartoonish sci-fi horror-comedy-drama-action crpg/visual novel about funny robots where four nebulous narrators invade the player character's brain chip. Okay bye!

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

@@TheONLYFeli0 sounds neat

[@The41stPrecinct]

Keep me in mind when it's ready, I'd love to spotlight it :)

[@GladkiyElisey]

My happiness is dripping from my pants leg As Stalin said, "It became better to live, to live became more cheerful!"

[@commieblock1917]

The more the forces of Reaction attempt to crush the body, the more defiant the spirit of Disco becomes.

[@nightfr09]

Hype af Gonna buy em all, even if they suck because i was late to the train on DE. Bought the game well after everyone had left

[@AppleBiscuits]

HARDCORE TO THE MEGA!

[@noblest_sir]

A Disco Elysium moment in real life

[@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126]

When people heard about the split within studio that made disco elysium, no one expected a single project to come out ever, letalone three!

[@dmitriyrasskazov8858]

Real Disco Elysium has never been tried.

[@Ixarus6713]

They might have a chance to buy back their rights... if these companies succeed, they could eventually save enough to combine again and purchase the rights back to reclaim ZA/UM...

[@HoratioAccel]

I dont know why we all gave up hope of a disco successor. So many people involved in building Elysium it was only a matter of time

[@k1nk1ne]

i swear to god if someone's going to call these games Elysium like...

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

God I hate it so much no please lmao

[@usbgamers123]

You know what... No. I would like Disco Elysium to inspire new game devs, and create a new game from their own creative brush. I would like to have more Elysium-likes. I don't think they will ever reach what DE did, but I don't need them to, I just want a new breath of fresh air

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

@@usbgamers123 same, I want people to see how DE integrated game play mechanics with storytelling and characterization and find their own way of doing so. Funny enough, the game that shares the same spirit and design philosophy the most is papers please, a game that was released like.. a decade before DE lol

[@hp5184]

The second game "xxx nightshift" just feels wrong. The writing in the beginning seems shallow and the same old generic metaphors that one heard a thousand times are used which makes me very skeptical concidering the quality of the writing. I hope i am wrong.

[@thedarknightnicht]

Very interested to see whats happening You are keeping Disco alive!

[@colossal.idiotx]

"Un jour je serai de retour près de toi".. they returned to our sides.

[@TheDudeOnceNamedAsh]

The best news I’ve heard all day

[@stanisawdrewienkowski2843]

What a year, so much Disco in the air. At least few years from now. It will probably take 3+ years before any of those games come out, my guess would be 5, unless the one that had a trailer already os further along in development

[@mushroom_girl3339]

Think the third game is going to be the true successor of disco elysium, the others seem like an attempt to copy the aesthetic of elysium, whereas the third one seems to be speaking from the heart and being true to itself

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

Same, it actually sounds interesting

[@davartheberserker]

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."

[@martyrsaint]

It’s goos to see people break off and do their own thing.

[@TheFlargleblargle]

YEAAAAAHHHHHHH

[@schmon8409]

HARDCORE

[@JürgenPotzkoten-u9c]

@@schmon8409 HARDCORE TO THE MEGA

[@akamal92]

Mankind, be vigilant. We loved you.

[@mariomares6572]

The absolute best outcome we could've gotten after the ZA/UM fiasco. Hope Owlcat reaches out and helps at least one of them out, they're the only publishers I would trust with the task.

[@seamees4022]

im bouta disco all over this elysium

[@Coffeepanda294]

I thought this was going to be the people stealing the IP making new games, and it's the original creators making spiritual successors? So (cautiously) hyped!

[@moldbellchains5709]

Whatever it May be, I’ll take it and be happy 😀

[@moroi3397]

I'm so fucking excited for a person that has repeatedly stopped after a few hours of play, never actually finishing the damn thing. Two birds with one stone is luck, but to hope that three stones will hit at least one bird is reasonable.

[@cowboy5826]

Had to tab out the moment you said “the day after the miracle”, dude lol

[@The41stPrecinct]

Haha I resolutely stand by that phrase!

[@customercareskeleton]

3?? Holy shit they're multiplying

[@KristinVTaylor]

As someone who lived through the closure of City of Heroes, and witnessed all the spiritual successors that were spawned out of that, I'll say this much: Things were hopeful at first, but it didn't take long to expose all of the flaws and problems that existed with the various attempts to preserve the game. Hope was completely gone after a few years, until 2019, when a leak came out that some problematic folks had managed to keep things running in secret. And, to their credit, they did decide to release things publicly rather than trying to keep things hidden or crawling back under a rock (mostly. They kept some harmful secrets under wraps for a few more years, and there may still be some more lurking). And now, in 2024, we've got City back and stronger than ever before. I can't say things will necessarily go the same for Disco Elysium, but it won't be the first time a miraculously anti-capitalist venture saves a beloved game. There's just way more people who love Disco than who loved City, so I feel confident that hope for Elysium won't die.

[@ZELYNER]

I want to believe that all this is just a middle finger to ZA/UM and all the studios are working on a single game

[@just5354]

I am extremely happy about this, but I will still treat such news with caution. After all, too little time has passed Although to hell with it. HARDCORE TO THE MEGA!!!

[@nomdreg]

Thanks to God!! I have been waiting for this

[@biscuits_cake]

Want to point out Rue Valley, which is also a very Disco-like game to get hyped for.

[@clappagemcphee]

As glad as i am to see this happening, what happened to the potential sequel will always be such a sore spot...

[@vindex57]

"Psychological RPG" is a much needed genre.

[@blehh_mae]

to me nightshift and summer eternal seem the most disco to me, except i feel nightshift will be its own great experience and summer eternal will be the true disco elysium spirital successor, the longdue one doesnt seem Bad but out of the 3, i feel its not gonna match DE, but i dont doubt itll be good nonetheless

[@bluedew8655]

we are so fucking back🙏

[@Malkxl]

That's disco bro

[@liamlopez3383]

I'll probably play all of the games that come from these studios tbh, im just like that. The first one obviously has little going on to show other than its relation to the DE (kender bro is a little curious) nightshifts trailer made me groan it feels like an aesthetic emulation even if its by some of the original staff im not really sensingthe juice there unfortunately. Summer eternal definitely is the real deal, thats DE to its core. Whole shabang, no doubt about it. has the juice fir sure my brother. Also Cant wait to see whatever kurvitz, hindpere and rostov come out with as well

[@FrancoGuglielmoni]

I got shivers from the trailer. The voice. The music. Good god. It’s not a direct sequel but the vibes are crazy. + the detail “someone was looking for you all weekend, tried to contact you” reminds me of the fact Kim in DE was looking to meet Harry for all weekend before their actual meeting. I just love this detail. I really hope these games will be as good as DE.

[@bogdanbogdanovich140]

there will never be anything like it.

[@joanofsharc]

The first one seems like a bust imo, but the latter two, as well as Red Info, I'm hopeful.

[@michimatsch5862]

Your video description has a spelling mistake. Thanks for the news! Very excited.

[@jlhn]

Tbh as a Marvel fan I don’t like this at all lmao Because to me this feel like what happened with Marvel, they did one good thing successfully and now are trying to replicate it until they can get all the money squeezed out of it, and it seems to me that this is more about money than an actual spiritual successor I don’t think there's ever going to be another Disco Elysium, it was lightning in a bottle, the right people at the right time with the right ideas and trying to replicate that will create just meh games at best The only studio I will keep a very judgemental eye on will be summer eternal because of their manifesto, though, as someone who works in marketing, to me it seemed more like a PR thing to say "we are the real deal! Throw your money at us! Not at those other fakes ones" The leaat I hope for is that at least those new studios don't replicate the apparently horrible work environment that was going on in Zaum

[@SkyP9812]

I might actually cry... Someone pinch me, I'm not actually convinced I'm not dreaming /hj

[@VersusArdua]

We are so back 🎉

[@nelsonaraujo86]

I want to be a member of the board on Summer eternal. Even a little

[@YouTubdotCub]

I am buying all four (including the Rostov and Kurvitz studio that predates all of these) companies' games and I will wallow in them like a pig in filth.

[@gar-feels4438]

HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

[@aiuipapito]

AIGHT WHEN IS PUNK ELYSIUM COMING OUT ????

[@mixingcat5213]

I need a tequila sunrise right now

[@cauecello]

Hi! What happened with the deserter maximum stats video?, i can't find it anymore

[@th3TwistedLight]

"Holy shit 3 cakes"

[@banewwhastur9487]

god I love fan works

[@Snake97531]

Love game companies that sit on an ip they do nothing with, and then when someone wants to do something with it they smite them like the hand of god

[@uwielbiamtruskawki6049]

Well i want to know if another revolution happend in revachol...

[@CrimpyCracker]

Un jour je serai de retour près de toi.

[@sinkdemon5813]

My primary concern is the writing

[@The41stPrecinct]

Depends which studio you’re referring to I suppose, I have a mixed view across the three but have complete faith the writing from summer eternal will be incredible.

[@washaa]

Destiny 2 and su1cide squad doesn't exactly jump out at me as confidence inducing examples of writing

[@The41stPrecinct]

No not a great footing but I assume he’s one of many so let’s see

[@yoinkisplonki260]

No way, I will believe it when I see it

[@lifeishard9637]

there is another disco like coming out this November calld rue valley

[@The41stPrecinct]

Yep! I covered that in a video a few months back, I’m very excited for that! :)

[@lifeishard9637]

@@The41stPrecinct really I can't seem to find it

[@Frostbite08]

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

[@sandorbence2067]

Spiritual successors are fine, just don't make it into a direct sequel and try to expand on the world of the original. That game told everything it needed to told, all the unanswered questions and ambiguity about its characters and world just add to the charm.

[@user-qb3yp9dm4y]

how very thrilling

[@frankheninja1]

Still sucks we’ll never get Disco 2.

[@release858]

It's pretty poetic... in a way.

[@AdmiralSloth]

I doubt Disco 2 would ever be able to live up to Disco Elysium. I don't think anything will, really. So I choose not to be sad about that.

[@The41stPrecinct]

This is the way

[@JürgenPotzkoten-u9c]

@@AdmiralSloth a spinoff about kim would be awesome tho

[@AdmiralSloth]

@@JürgenPotzkoten-u9c How about Kim of Duty- the premier first person shooter in which you shoot a lot of dead bodies down from trees.

[@brownsugarissupreme]

Links to the game trailer would be appreciated

[@The41stPrecinct]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3XJlmSVfcp5g68si=NhGuvN5g-lu81KSy

[@Morgaen_Rei]

0:35 canceled by the developer ZU/AM XDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@RADIOSUICIDIO]

No Kurvitz, no Elysium

[@The41stPrecinct]

Elysium is dead. Disco is not.

[@LCTesla]

3:13 this comes across a little too copied tbh

[@The41stPrecinct]

On reflection I agree, yes, summer eternal has the actual spirit of Disco at its heart.

[@Fuzmonster59]

YIPPIE

[@kensizhang5398]

Je suis retourner près de toi.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Kim kitsuragi dating sim when?

[@The41stPrecinct]

That already exists 😅