Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

A pedantic point 'n click text adventure trying to pass out as a true rpg. By all means - if you think you would enjoy a zork text adventure written by millenial commies too eagger to show off (from the top of a rather tall horse I must add) belaborated pseudo-intelectual/artistic diatribes and über edgy dialogue that gives you a very poorly disguised illusion of choice or impact on the universe the grotesque [and 2 dimentional] characters inhabit - then: by all means. Ditto in the case you long for a game that let's you have political discussions with fundamentalists (I mean - who could possibly do that irl nowadays, right? What a fantasy, right? For those that want to play a true rpg that doesn't go on an on about marxism, racism, socialism, capitalism, feminism and other "isms" most of us gamers are sick to bone of - try elsewhere. Why design a good skill system when we can go the edgelord way and have your skills speak with you. The skills WON'T SHUT UP!##!#÷@!. A great true rpg you can find here on gog is "the age of decadence" which, despite it's name has turn based combat as J. H. Christ intended and has 0 portland influences. Or replay fallout1&2 yet again... I dunno... Whatever you do please consider not funding these estonian hipster devs.

They took a cool game and made it terrible with their incessant need to brow beat the player with the developer’s asinine beliefs. Stripping the player of autonomy via condemnation or downright pigeon holing. Unless you are a parrot haired, woke person, this game is a drag.

Is it the best game ever made? no

Own it on steam. First of all, this is barely a crpg, this is a visual novel with some light rpg elements. With combat being 100% absent, all you do is read text and though the writing is pretty good, after an actual full hour of nonstop talking to the same person, I tend to check out. People keep comparing this to Planescape Torment but dont be fooled, it is nowhere near as good and the things that it shares with Planescape come off as derivative. The whole depression angle is reddit and cringe and the story does nothing interesting with it. Characters range from unmemorable to ok, however Kim, literally the only companion you ever get is hilariously underdeveloped as a character. Skill checks are based on dice rolls instead of stat requirements which is trash and heavily incentivizes save scumming as opposed to smart character building. I also dont see much variety in character builds as there are multiple essential skill checks you need to pass in order to progress. The plot really is nothing interesting. It consists of the overall murder mystery and the PC's personal reddit-tier struggle with drugs and depression, which as stated earlier is extremely played out. You never do any substantial detective work either, no matter what you do you get railroaded in the same direction every time. There is therefore almost no replay value. The ending sucks too, just dumping all revelatory information onto you, instead of discovering it yourself throughout the game. Overall, the game is entertaining enough to hold most people's interest but it really is not the masterpiece people make it out to be. Also, the devs are unironic Stalinists, but depending on what person you are you might find that based. Buy on a sale.

If you prefer games that are 99% not game and involve only reading and changing outfits, this graphical book was made for you. I prefer games with some game to them. If the premise of this game interests you, but you are looking for a game with game in it, I highly suggest Torment and HeroU,