{"id":1525960,"date":"2026-03-14T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dJU7GVZSEc2QDvYWWWpDN3"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:51:16","slug":"disco-elysium-writers-marvel-at-how-a-game-made-in-a-fking-squalid-flat-in-estonia-had-such-a-huge-impact-and-welcomes-successors-like-esoteric-ebb-we-make-games-but-we-also-like-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/disco-elysium-writers-marvel-at-how-a-game-made-in-a-fking-squalid-flat-in-estonia-had-such-a-huge-impact-and-welcomes-successors-like-esoteric-ebb-we-make-games-but-we-also-like-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made ‘in a f**king squalid flat’ in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: ‘We make games, but we also like them’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disco Elysium<\/a> was a singular experience when it dropped in 2019. There was really just nothing else like it: Most people who wanted to compare it to something reached back to Black Isle’s 1999 masterwork Planescape: Torment, because such intricate, hyper-verbose RPGs that work so well are genuine rarities.<\/p>\n

That’s less the case these days: Esoteric Ebb “is the best game like Disco Elysium<\/a> that anybody’s made since Disco Elysium” in the words of Disco superfan (and PC Gamer editor) Ted Litchfield, Tangerine Antarctic<\/a> (formerly XXX Nightshift) bears echoes of its forebear, and others are on the way<\/a>. All of these games owe some amount of debt to the success of Disco Elysium\u2014so how does the team making Zero Parades, the next game from ZA\/UM, feel about the sudden uptick in competition in its very specific market?<\/p>\n

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