Three indie studios composed of former Disco Elysium developers have been announced, and the rise of Disco-like games continues.

Indie developer Longdue has annoucned work on a new RPG title that will serve as a spiritual successor to the game Disco Elysium

If you wanted more Disco Elysium, well, you’re in luck, as we now have three studios making Disco Elysium successors and 'the next big thing' in RPGs

The leads of the now-canceled Disco Elysium sequel, and original members of the development team, are working on a spiritual successor

Finally, and quite frankly, the most promising project of all involves the lead writer and the mind behind the universe, Robert Kurvitz, and essential art director Aleksander Rostov. Funded by NetEase, the twosome are reportedly working on something new at a studio called Red Info after they were both fired by ZA/UM, kicking off a messy legal spat.

Disco Elysium is widely hailed as one of the greatest RPGs of all time, but the future of the series has been up in the air. A planned sequel and expansion were canceled and developer ZA/UM laid off some workers as a result.

Spiritual Successor To Disco Elysium refers to memes and jokes about how three groups of former Disco Elysium developers announced three separate projects,

On Disco Elysium’s five-year anniversary, two separate studios each made up of people who used to work at developer ZA/UM have announced they're both making a spiritual successor of their own. Disco Elysium is a 2019 narrative role-playing game developed and published by controversial studio ZA/UM.

Dark Math Games announces XXX Nightshift just as new studio Longdue reveals its own Disco Elysium spiritual successor

A dev team called Longdue announced that they are developing a “spiritual successor” to Disco Elysium, a popular modern RPG launched in 2019. The actual Disco Elysium sequel has been canceled, and that’s why Longdue believes it can call its own game a “spiritual successor.