It's such an incredible science fantasy universe, probably my favorite piece of fiction from the past decade.

The political history, nature of reality and shape of the world, even things about how computers ("radiocomputers") work are all fascinating to me. It's a shame what happened to the studio. There deserve to be more stories told in that universe.

> It's a shame what happened to the studio.

And there's an extremely funny winking self-reference in the game:

https://fayde.co.uk/dialojue/4600609

For context: ZA/UM was, for a time, called Fortress Occident.

ZA/UM is also the name of a physical artefact in the Disco Elysium universe. It gets used in the novel Kurvitz wrote: Sacred and Terrible Air.

> ZA/UM was, for a time, called Fortress Occident

Hah! I've spent some time reading trivia about the game recently, but I hadn't come across this. That makes a lot of sense.

I think, even though they are very different games, Disco Elysium has a lot of the same feel as Planescape: Torment. A lot of the same introspection of human nature, philosophy, moral judgment, and wry humour. If you like one, I think you'll like the other.