Disco Elysium is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played and for sure one of the most important. I think that it should be required playing in the same way some books are required reading: it might not be for everyone, but everyone should play it and take notes. The world and the characters are so, so alive with so much effort and love behind them. Revachol and its residents are as horrible as they are fascinating and beautiful. Harry Du Bois himself is a man who’s equal parts terrible, pitiable, and lovable. There’s an art to making protagonists like him, I believe- protagonists who aren’t inherently likable or good people- and I think that art is perfected here. The dialogue and prose of the game is well-written, and the atmosphere is unmatched and perfectly fit for a miserable world in the fallout of a failed revolution. There’s a lot of reading to do, but so much you can do as well, and a sort of dice-rolling system impacted by the different sorts of builds you can make that’s engaging. Honestly, I could go on and on and on, but nothing I could say could do this game justice.