Disco Elysium, a detective role-playing game, has been reimagined as an ’80s point-and-click adventure game by a talented artist, who has pixelated the game’s main characters and referenced a humorous moment from the game. Since the rise of indie game development technology, demake projects and retro-inspired games have become increasingly popular. Remakes of classic games like Bloodborne by FromSoftware for the PlayStation 1 and the resurgence of first-person shooters from the ’90s seem to have spawned a new gaming trend that is attracting players and developers alike.
Disco Elysium quickly rose to cult status and was hailed as one of the best RPGs of the last decade, despite its Early Access launch. Players assume control of a detective with amnesia who is tasked with solving a murder but has no recollection of the events leading up to the crime. Players must rely on skill checks, dialogue trees, and an open world to make their way through the game’s many options. One of the highest-rated games of 2021, Disco Elysium has won numerous awards since its release, including four at The Game Awards 2019.
A Disco Elysium-inspired point-and-click adventure game was created by artist Ben Chandler and shared on Twitter, giving fans a glimpse of the game’s atmosphere and protagonists Harrier Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi in pixelated graphics. Players can use the Rhetoric skill to interact with a mailbox in the game, which is depicted in the intriguing artwork. To initiate the interaction, players can choose to pet or kick the mailbox. The game humorously informs them of their choice. As a point and click game, Disco Elysium’s demake’s style and atmosphere are perfectly suited to the title, which was highly popular during the fourth generation of video game consoles and made a breakthrough in the same era.
Disco Elysium’s developers continue to support the game, despite the game’s departure from Early Access. Jamais Vu, a recent update, added new content to the game. By deciphering clues left on a social media post, players will be able to solve an entirely new mysterious case in the latest update. Additional content may be on its way as more fixes are released by developers and the game’s numerous issues are remedied.
A growing trend among the indie community, demakes are helping to reimagine popular titles as classics for gamers who crave a return to retro graphics.” There is already a slew of modern games that have undergone this kind of reimagining, and that number is only going to grow as gamers’ nostalgia for classic games grows.