Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1039 Ratings

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  1. mosherpe
    Oct 5, 2021
    5
    The game's strengths come from the intrigue of solving its mysteries: a murder case alongside a search for identity in a detailed, crafted universe. However the excitement is bogged down in mundane, boring side missions which, depending on your character build, are jammed down your throat. The game's art style is beautiful, but wears off quickly as you realize there is little under theThe game's strengths come from the intrigue of solving its mysteries: a murder case alongside a search for identity in a detailed, crafted universe. However the excitement is bogged down in mundane, boring side missions which, depending on your character build, are jammed down your throat. The game's art style is beautiful, but wears off quickly as you realize there is little under the surface. Load times on the PS4 are abysmal. Disco Elysium's strengths are undermined by these flaws which make the game boring and frustrating.… Expand
  2. A-duck
    Jul 15, 2021
    7
    Decent game. But not sure what i walked into and was getting kind of bored by the inner monologue all the time after a few hours. Do NOT expect any action or great mechanics in this game. Do expect interesting dialog (and monologues), a weird and exciting alternate universe and some good voice acting.
  3. Idiota150
    May 29, 2021
    5
    Overrated by people wanting to be cool drunks or something. I just fall asleep anytime I try to play it ... it's like reading Dostojevskij.
  4. Cthulhu5000
    Apr 5, 2021
    5
    I really waited for final cut and was utterly disappointed. Yeah, smells communism. Too much French words of pseudo-intellectuality for my taste. Slooow walking. Zoomers reinvented book. I heard those complaints before playing, and I was ready. I was waiting for final cut and voice-acting. But…you gotta read that text. Just gotta. Visuals really don't give you much world info. And moreoverI really waited for final cut and was utterly disappointed. Yeah, smells communism. Too much French words of pseudo-intellectuality for my taste. Slooow walking. Zoomers reinvented book. I heard those complaints before playing, and I was ready. I was waiting for final cut and voice-acting. But…you gotta read that text. Just gotta. Visuals really don't give you much world info. And moreover voice-acting is incomplete. It's awesome, but no one pronounces narrator's words. So you hear someone talking and continue talking, while you missed important info in narrator's words in-between those character's phrases. Get back and read. Basically the worst voice-directing possible.
    And when all those known and unknown minuses combined into internal dialogue, where I've chosen phase "dumb brain", got moral loss and game over, I was just fed up with this **** too much to reload. Overvalued game of decade.    … Expand
  5. Kelkil79
    Jan 4, 2022
    5
    Overrated, Silly, Frustrating. Good voice acting, Story Arches, Interaction. Well, this is an okay game, I don't regret playing it, but it is annoying when a game like this is "Game of the Year" on so many lists. I do hope more games like this are made but perhaps with less "influencing" on the player.
  6. buraktksy
    Aug 11, 2023
    5
    Hands down, Disco Elysium Director's cut is the best possible RPG game of all times.
  7. Alvelian
    Dec 14, 2022
    5
    Игра для очень узкого круга потребителей. Иван Лоев может сколько угодно мастурбировать на данное детище, но как по мне это трудно назвать игрой. Больше похоже на скучное графоманское чтиво. Я понимаю тех кому она понравилась, но в ИГРАХ все же хочется иметь возможность ИГРАТЬ, здесь же геймплей можно сказать нулевой, с таким же успехом могли сделать из нее визуальную новеллу.Игра для очень узкого круга потребителей. Иван Лоев может сколько угодно мастурбировать на данное детище, но как по мне это трудно назвать игрой. Больше похоже на скучное графоманское чтиво. Я понимаю тех кому она понравилась, но в ИГРАХ все же хочется иметь возможность ИГРАТЬ, здесь же геймплей можно сказать нулевой, с таким же успехом могли сделать из нее визуальную новеллу.
  8. fkonradt
    Nov 3, 2022
    5
    Well, English is my second language and since this is more a book then a game sometimes I had hard time focusing. Almost no gameplay mechanics it's just text, even if something exciting happens it happens in form of text. Now at least it's voiced, but still. I don't know where the hype come from.
  9. PotHeadSteve
    May 30, 2022
    7
    Its a good game. But it needs more work on the writing and the decisions you can make in game. As for the good things. I really love the world they have created with Disco Elysium. Exploring Revenchol(Even though it is small) is fun. The character building and the world is amazing, i loved how it has this weird techno steam punk sorta aesthetic. I liked how they have skills and the skillsIts a good game. But it needs more work on the writing and the decisions you can make in game. As for the good things. I really love the world they have created with Disco Elysium. Exploring Revenchol(Even though it is small) is fun. The character building and the world is amazing, i loved how it has this weird techno steam punk sorta aesthetic. I liked how they have skills and the skills are like different personas that talk to you in game, it added a whole new dynamic on skills. As for the bad though. The writing can be hit or miss. When the writing is good it is really good, but at other times it reeks of the game designers smelling their own farts and thinking they have created some kind of masterpiece because of their murderous political ideology. The political ideologies in the game are stupid. Thinking private companies should follow the law is considered "Fascist", it borders on Communist propaganda. Nazi ideology in real life is actually no different then Communist ideology, one just makes things about race while the other makes it about a Marxist definition of class. Where they always portray the Communists as the good guys even though they are clearly the bad guys. They even force you at times to work with the Commies even though you don't want to. They also force you to change clothes mid conversation just to pass checks. Even though some checks in the game are impossible. They also punish you for playing a nazi, by taking your health or morale away from you, which again reeks of the game developers smelling their own farts and trying to force you into certain decisions. If you are just going to punish players then why have the option of playing nazi. If you can get over the Commie propaganda and just play the game for what it is. It isn't bad. But it isn't game of the year material. It is a okay story visual novel game.… Expand
  10. nep321
    Apr 9, 2023
    7
    Very unique gameplay elements and a mysterious atmosphere. However, there's way too much dialog and you will spend most of the time reading through dialog. The ending was a major disappointment.
  11. TheCroWolf
    May 13, 2022
    7
    Ehhh i though this is like fallout 2 nahhh this is litle bit boring fallout 2
  12. dr-kenobi
    Sep 30, 2022
    5
    It's extremely overrated. I like noir, the 00s RPG vibes and stuff, but the whole thing is not as magnificent as people tell
  13. Stitch_Ha
    Sep 8, 2022
    7
    Игра по-прежнему одна из лучших ролевых игр, когда-либо созданных чего стоит сюжет с геймплеем но опять же от геймплея такого нужно часто отдыхать и делать перерывы
  14. badrobotics
    Sep 24, 2022
    5
    Definitely not for everyone. I played a few hours and found it mind-numbingly boring, beyond a few funny gags. And one of my favorite games of all time is Pathologic, so I don't mind lots of reading. All the characters and dialog here just seem either boring or annoying. Just not seeing the appeal.
  15. Nick_Rostov
    Oct 26, 2022
    6
    Игры, где одна болтовня не дня меня. Медленно, скучно, уныло. Ничего не происходит.
  16. Crimson9
    Dec 24, 2022
    6
    This is really hard. Disco Elysium brings a ton of positive things to gaming that haven't been done before. Splitting your personality to 16 different traits each representing inner monologues and aiding in RPG choice making is brilliant. Of course, its mostly used for the former - constantly and excessively - and not much in the latter. The monologues are rarely brilliant, usually drearyThis is really hard. Disco Elysium brings a ton of positive things to gaming that haven't been done before. Splitting your personality to 16 different traits each representing inner monologues and aiding in RPG choice making is brilliant. Of course, its mostly used for the former - constantly and excessively - and not much in the latter. The monologues are rarely brilliant, usually dreary and exhausting. There's a constant attempt at humor, it misses with me, and worse yet, ruins the immersion. Maybe its someone else's cup of tea. The RPG choice making well, Disco Elysium is the perfect example of illusion of choice. There is SOME choice for sure, but not much. And the promise of the excellent personality system is not utilized whatsoever.

    The story, the world, the writing are pretty good for video games. For video games. It hardly reaches levels of classical literature. And it often strikes a tone that repulses me. I like the focus on politics, and its handles with subtlety, though again underutilized to say anything particularly meaningful.

    Overall, I can see for a medium like video games that people think this is something exceptional. But I found it a slog.    … Expand

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Metascore
97

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

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  1. GameGrin
    Oct 15, 2021
    100
    Traversing the mind of your character is as much a plot as the case you’re trying to solve, and once you’re immersed into the world of Revachol, you’ll be struggling to leave.
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  2. Shindig
    Jun 18, 2021
    100
    Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is something rare. It’s a re-issued version of an already-beloved game, that manages to eclipse the source material through clever and thoughtful additions that maximise one of the game’s most beautiful assets: its prose. But more than that, it’s the only CRPG that can truly claim to emulate the tabletop experience—not through adherence to statistics or rules or character sheets, but through the simple act of asking questions, and thoughtfully incorporating the answers.
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  3. TrueGaming
    Apr 28, 2021
    95
    Disco Elysium has a distinctive quality to its narrative, whether it's the interesting history of its world, or the mysteries surrounding the investigation, not to mention the depth and uniqueness of the many characters. It's one of the greatest story-driven experiences we've ever seen.
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