It would take me decades to express everything that made me fall in love with Disco Elysium. It encourages a level of unhinged behavior that the human psyche craves. It revels in the mysteries of every day existence. It leverages politics in a well-versed way that challenges both player-held and socially-constructed notions of those politics. In Disco, a drunk can be a hero, the most sober and calculating man can be the foulest person to walk the earth, and a doomsday prophet can move from apocalyptic ravings to a touching karaoke ballad in a mere day's time.

Disco Elysium gave me something I so rarely get to have in the modern game release cycle: that magical feeling that I took part in something much larger, smarter, and spiritual than me. And I feel richer for having explored its mysteries, even the ones I never truly finished solving.