There are four attributes (Intellect, Psyche, Physique, Motorics), each with five related skills (see below). The number of points in a base attribute determines both your base score in that attribute, and the maximum level you can raise skills in that category to. The three premade templates distribute them 5/4/2/1 but you can go as high as 6. You start with 12 points to put into four attributes. It terribly easy to see what is under the hood. It shows you the dice rolls, it shows you the difficulty, it shows youĬircumstantial modifiers, it shows you the odds of success.

Most importantly for our purposes: Disco Elysium puts all of its mechanics up front to you. This post is about mechanics and a bit of dressing. Incredible empathy and nails the point home with a goddamn railroad It is a game that sits at the junction between incredible cynicism and

It is a dense game and a detailed game, and what I describe here is not the game. It is a game where a little offhand skill check or inspecting a random item can send you spirited away on a sidequest. It can be shelved right next to the other great OSR-adjacent video games: Darkest Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, those ones. If we're talking from a mechanical perspective it is absolutely better and if we're talking story and characters it comes down purely to taste and frankly I don't want to make that call because comparing two super-good things like that is silly. Disco Elysium is the best CRPG since Planescape Torment.

Goodgame disco 2019