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GOOD COP, BAD COP

You are not well. You’ve woken up on the floor of a grimy hotel room with a hangover so devastating you might as well be dead. You don’t remember who you are, which city you’re in, or what happened the night before. Apparently you’re a detective, in town to solve a murder, but you don’t feel like a cop. You feel like total, utter shit.

Disco Elysium is a detective RPG of improbable depth. It’s part Planescape: Torment, part police procedural. Your hungover detective peels himself off the carpet, naked except for a pair of soiled underpants, and begins the laborious process of piecing his broken mind back together, while attempting to solve a gruesome murder on the wrong side of the tracks.

It pays to think carefully before making any rash decisions

The game has stats, skill checks, companions, quests, and an interface inspired by classic Infinity Engine CRPGs. But

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