The Infernal Engine of Disco Elysium
“Hours turn to days. Soon he will get up again and go through it – again! Again! Finally, we know what the infernal engine was, outside –the clarion call…” “The engine of a Coupris Kineema…” “No. It was HIM . HE is the infernal engine, can’t you see? He never stops. He only gets worse.” Disco Elysium is a game about a lot of things. It’s about being a detective, about exploring an unfamiliar place that soon becomes like home. It’s about choices and meaning and experiences. It’s about brokenness, with a broken protagonist in a broken world trying to piece things together no matter how pointless it may seem. But more than anything else, it’s about what it means to be human. Humanism is the lifeblood of Disco Elysium , the philosophy that there’s no higher power, no afterlife; you get one life, one chance, and that’s it. But if that’s true, then what’s the point? Why even bother existing, or even living? What meaning is there to be found