A third studio, which includes Disco Elysium veterans, is now working on a spiritual successor to the beloved RPG. It's called 'psychogeographic RPG.'

Disco Elysium 2 is dead, long live Disco Elysium spiritual successors. Longdue, a newly-revealed studio, has announced it is working on a Disco RPG with a "dozen-strong" staff including some former Studio ZA/UM members.

Longdue's latest project is still a long time away, as the game has yet to receive an official title. The first press release from the studio includes a striking concept image of three shadowed figures peering through a triangular-shaped window in ruins or caves. Longdue claims that its game "explores delicate interplay between conscious and subconscious, seen and unseen," as well as "choices ripple" between a character's psyche an environment. Longdue coined the term 'psychogeographic RPG' for its upcoming title, which sounds classic Disco and speaks of that theme of psychology warping realty.

Longdue mentions Disco Elysium as a primary inspiration, and specifically states that this isometric RPG will be in the style of these games. Longdue is not revealing which former Studio ZA/UM developers are on the team at this time, but they have clarified that Disco Elysium's writer Robert Kurvitz, and artist Aleksander Rosstov, are not. Kurvitz and Rostov continue to run their own initiative Red Info Ltd.

The legacy of Disco is defined as much by the legal and creative battles over its ownership as by its brilliance. Kurvitz, Rostov and Disco Elysium author Helen Hindpere all left Studio ZA/UM by 2021, claiming that the company management had unfairly seized the intellectual property. However, the management maintains that it fired them on reasonable grounds.

Earlier this summer, we published an investigation into Studio ZA/UM’s post-Disco attempts, including a scrapped "sequel" and a "standalone extension" that was canceled by the studio in February. The cancellation of that game resulted in the layoff of the entire team, including Argo Tuulik who wrote Disco Elysium. At the time that report was published, ZA/UM had a new RPG game in development, separate from Elysium.

Red Info, and now Longdue are three studios that have former Disco staffers claiming the legacy of the RPG. It is not clear how far the legal battle between Red Info and ZA/UM over the Disco IP has progressed at the time of this writing. Joshua Wolens, PC Gamer's news writer, put it well: It is "incredibly appropriate" for a communist studio to split up into multiple rival factions.