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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is a role-playing detective game developed and published by ZA/UM, released on Windows in October 2019 and expanded into the Final Cut edition for consoles in 2021. The player controls Harrier Du Bois, a detective of the Revachol Citizens Militia who wakes in a wrecked hotel room with no memory of the last week, and is handed a murder investigation in the ruined harbour district of Martinaise alongside Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi. There is no combat system: every conflict, from a fistfight to a bureaucratic argument, is resolved as a dialogue check rolled against one of 24 skills split across Intellect, Psyche, Physique and Motorics. Progression comes from skill points, clothing and tools that shift those skills, and the Thought Cabinet, a set of 53 internalised ideas that grant bonuses and change how conversations unfold. The Final Cut adds full voice acting for every line, four political vision quests and new dialogue, and the game is set in the fictional world of Elysium created by novelist Robert Kurvitz.

• Skill Checks Instead of Combat: There is no combat system. Kicking a mailbox, intimidating a dockworker or reading a room are all checks rolled against a skill, and a failure is written into the scene as a permanent outcome rather than retried.
• Four Attributes and 24 Skills: Intellect, Psyche, Physique and Motorics each hold six skills. Skill points, clothing and thoughts raise them, which changes both the odds of a check and which internal voices are loud enough to speak during dialogue.
• Thought Cabinet: 53 internalisable thoughts, each with a temporary penalty while it settles and a permanent effect afterwards. Some thoughts gate political quest lines and change which dialogue options exist at all.
• Equipment and Inventory: Clothing, tools and consumables modify skills directly, so swapping a coat or a hat can flip which dialogue options succeed. Items also carry narrative hooks, from a ledger to a tape player.
• Political Vision Quests: The Final Cut adds four quest lines tied to communist, fascist, moralist and ultraliberal convictions, each with its own quest chain and a distinct ending beat.
• Fixed Case, Many Routes: The murder in Martinaise has a fixed culprit and timeline, but the route to it depends on which skills, thoughts and political stance the detective commits to, and several major scenes are reachable only one way per playthrough.
• The World of Elysium: The game is set in a fictional world of isolated isolas separated by the Pale, a reality-dissolving substance, with Revachol as a failed revolutionary capital under Coalition occupation and fifty years of ideological hangover.