3 Disco Elysium spiritual successors announced on the same day

You’d be forgiven for thinking only one Disco Elysium spiritual successor made partially by people on the original team was announced on Friday. Turns out, there were three revealed, all with the hope of following up on one of the best games of all time.

First up is Dark Math Games, which announced its game XXX Nightshift on Friday. The studio is described as a “breakaway group” from the original team in a press release. While XXX Nightshift looks very much like Disco Elysium in early footage (which you can watch below), the studio says it will include a “unique companion dynamic,” a deep RPG system, and multiple ways to solve a mystery at a ski resort in Antarctica set in the year 2086.

XXX Nightshift — Official Announcement Trailer

The studio is being led by Timo Albert, a former motion graphic designer at ZA/UM, along with three other founders. There are 20 people working on the game, but whether there are other former Disco Elysium team members on the team wasn’t disclosed — just that they were “trained” on the award-winning CRPG.

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“Additionally to innovating the traditional RPG mechanics, we’ll bring something fresh to the table. You will see. And of course, a few less words. And a few more bullets, perhaps. In total: lot more fun.” Albert, who is now an art director at Dark Math, wrote in the press release.

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Next up is Longdue, a small team of around a dozen developers, including some that worked on the classic indie. They’re making a game that will “continue Disco Elysium’s award-winning legacy and represent a bold new artistic endeavor that aims to trailblaze in the narrative-first CRPG space.” There’s no title just yet, but a press release claims it’ll have a “groundbreaking ‘psychogeographic RPG’ mechanic,” which is just a fancy way of saying your choices can shape the world in a complex, constantly moving way.

GamesIndustry.biz confirmed that former designer Robert Kurvitz