{"id":289980,"date":"2024-10-14T18:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=342142"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:51:40","slug":"disco-elysium-has-marked-an-era-now-three-studios-are-competing-to-make-its-spiritual-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/disco-elysium-has-marked-an-era-now-three-studios-are-competing-to-make-its-spiritual-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco Elysium has marked an era. Now, three studios are competing to make its spiritual sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The appearance, in 2019, of Disco Elysium marked an era demonstrating that role-playing games can be perfectly translated into a video game, offering different options along the way and with a river-like story based on decisions that would define the future of the characters. But <strong>its studio, which defined itself as a &#8220;cultural association,&#8221; has faced numerous problems<\/strong> after the launch, leading to a real battle to be the true creators of the sequel (spiritual, at least). And here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Disco Elysium\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/e9ed2885-7633-4593-9377-94112936f550\/140952479\/disco-elysium-icon.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Disco Elysium<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disco-elysium.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disco-elysium.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Total sequelitis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are now three groups of developers who have left ZA\/UM and, more specifically, Disco Elysium, who are creating RPGs with the moral dualities and issues that the game presented. The first to act was Longdue, who <strong>is creating a &#8220;psychogeographic RPG&#8221; in which players&#8217; decisions will shape the world.<\/strong> We don&#8217;t know much more yet, but Longdue hopes to break away from comparisons and be a completely independent RPG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But of course, it&#8217;s the same expectation at Dark Math Games, where they are making a &#8220;real detective game&#8221; called XXX Nightshift, in which <strong>half of the team are former Disco Elysium workers<\/strong>, including its art director. The game has a trailer and seems to be well advanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"XXX Nightshift - Official Announcement Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mDfe1_HeFMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a third contender, Summer Eternal, another studio led, this time, by two of the original writers of the game, who were working on the original sequel of the game before ZA\/UM closed its doors. And indeed, as much as we all loved Disco Elysium, it is impossible to deny that <strong>behind the curtains lay a realm of terror from which, surprisingly, a great game emerged.<\/strong> What will happen with these three spiritual sequels? Which one will come out on top, if any? Will we ever see this game as the precursor of an entire genre? We can only wait because there are twists and turns ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Disco Elysium in 2019 marked an era, demonstrating that role-playing games can be perfectly adapted into a video game, offering different options along the way and featuring a branching story based on decisions that would define the future of the characters. However, its studio, which defined itself as a &#8220;cultural association,&#8221; has faced numerous problems after the launch, leading to a genuine battle over who are the true creators of the sequel (at least a spiritual one). And here we are. Total sequelitis. Now there are three groups of developers that have emerged from ZA\/UM and, more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":289982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[7137,4627],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-289980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondisco-elysium","tag-disco-elysium","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311187,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289980\/revisions\/311187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289980"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=289980"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=289980"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=289980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}