A successor to Disco Elysium is apparently a long way off.
Do you happen to know whether our editor Steffi is nearby? If so, please cover your eyes and ears! Because their beloved Disco Elysium will probably not have a successor in the foreseeable future.
A report from the website Videogames.si According to the development studio ZA/UM, it is said that they were actually working on a sequel – but it has now been canceled. There are also expected to be major job cuts.
More ambitious than Disco Elysium?
The successor should therefore be a standalone extension with the project name X7
have acted. According to the report, ZA/UM President Ed Tomaszweski also addressed the workforce and, in the course of discontinuing the project, spoke of the release only a year or two away from release has been.
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In addition, according to Tomaszweski, the completion of the sequel would have more time and effort than Disco Elysium
requires, which indicates ambitious plans. However, it remains unclear whether the effort required is the main reason for the end of the development work.
Almost 25 percent of the workforce will have to leave
The ZA/UM CEO Ilmar Kompus is also said to have informed the workforce that around 24 employees will be laid off. The development team for Project
Some layoffs are also said to affect employees on other projects and outside of the development teams. In its report, Videogames.si names IT, animation, production and others as affected areas.
What exactly ZA/UM is currently working on is therefore completely uncertain. It will probably be a long time before we hear anything new from Disco Elysium. All in all, not good news about the new addition to our top 150 best role-playing games.
This is not the first negative report about a successor to Disco Elysium. Already in 2022, some important developers left the studio. We have linked the news report above for you. We would also like to let Steffi, the undisputed Disco Elysium expert, speak twice. What do you think about the game? Feel free to write it to us in the comments!
