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'

Disco Elysium 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.

That's less the case these days: Esoteric Ebb "is the best game like Disco Elysium that anybody's made since Disco Elysium" in the words of Disco superfan (and PC Gamer editor) Ted Litchfield...