Feature2019-11-29

Disco Elysium offers a dark mirror to my mid-life crisis

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Disco Elysium
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Disco Elysium
Genres · adventure, indie, rpg
Release · Oct 15, 2019
Developer · ZA/UM
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136 articles 87 writers 10 reviews
Mirror
SERIESCompared
Mirror
Active · 2017–2022
Latest · Mirror 2: Project X
Top genres · rpg, adventure, indie
45 articles 42 writers 3 games
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Active · 2013
Latest · Dark
Top genres · adventure, rpg, strategy
1235 articles 363 writers 1 games
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