The following recreation from the studio that revealed Disco Elysium has been revealed.
ZA/UM Studio has revealed its subsequent recreation, at present identified by the identify Mission C4, which it describes as “a brand new mind-warping espionage RPG that blends participant introspection, deep character-driven dialogue, and high-stakes encounters steered by cube rolls.”
In line with a press launch, the sport’s world “is rife with shadowy characters who assist transfer the items for competing geopolitical powers in a recreation of hid battle”.
Gamers are tasked with finishing “a determined project” which might see them “shedding their life, or a lot worse – being uncovered for what they are surely”.
Gamers take management of an Operant, who serves a “questionable world energy”, and has to participate in a “vicious, clandestine battle for reality and affect”.
In line with the studio, Mission C4 will let gamers take psychoactive substances to change their character’s thoughts, saying: “Gamers should metal themselves with no matter consolation they will as a way to survive the violent canvas of the actual.”
Whereas ZA/UM’s most notable launch was Disco Elysium, it’s unlikely that lots of the Disco Elysium group can be getting concerned with this new venture, given conflicts between the corporate and its former workers in recent times, most notably the string of explosive allegations made in late 2022 by former Disco Elysium builders and the house owners of the studio that fired them.
In November 2022, Disco Elysium recreation director Robert Kurvitz and artwork director Aleksander Rostov claimed that after an Estonian firm known as Tütreke OÜ acquired a majority shareholding within the firm, they “have been shortly excluded from day by day operations”, their “employment was terminated” and their “entry to the corporate’s data was shut off”.
They then alleged that Tütreke OÜ acquired the studio “by fraud” by illegally taking cash from ZA/UM itself and utilizing it to purchase its majority stake.
ZA/UM then responded by denying accusations of fraud, and stated that a number of workers had been dismissed on account of “egregious misconduct”.
Final 12 months it was reported that ZA/UM was shedding 1 / 4 of its employees and cancelling a standalone enlargement for Disco Elysium. It was claimed that this was the studio’s third cancellation, after a Disco Elysium sequel and a sci-fi recreation.
In the meantime, again in October, two separate studios made up of former ZA/UM employees have been introduced on the identical day – Longdue Video games (stated to be engaged on a religious successor to Disco Elysium) and Darkish Math Video games (which is engaged on XXX Nightshift, one other detective RPG).
