specially designed to make you hate yourself more than you did before playing. and you'll still hate yourself more after. fucking excellent.

a straightforward dungeon crawl, icewind dale is as brutal as its winter-cold setting. the areas are surprisingly interesting to explore for a purely combat focused game. the narrative is also surprisingly well-written, but leaves little room for character reactivity and roleplay experience.

sensitive and volatile, disco elysium is bleeding and raw with detail - it actually hurts. how you experience the world through harry's head is ocean vast - in the vein of a true, evolved RPG. truthfully, what made disco elysium so painfully cathartic is that it loves humanity so much that it is able to successfully string into a personal set of conversations what humanity rejoices and what it mourns. in the end, to believe in something is not merely political, but human.