Disco Elysium is a game about failure. The protagonist is a barely functioning drunk that no one likes at the beginning, and that includes himself. Everything you do in this game is hard. Your average play session will be wandering around, failing at almost everything you do. Embarrassing yourself, hurting yourself in stupid accidents, fighting against the cold indifference of the world. The game laughs at you, and you'll probably laugh too. But then you keep going.

It's a game about trying again. It's a game about always getting up, never giving up, persistently coming back into the ring again and again as you slowly force reality to reconcile with your existence. Thematically, it is the Dark Souls of point and click RPGs, and I mean that in a very good way.