Screenshots & trailers
What players say
Why the number is what it is: aspect mentions counted across 386 sampled Steam reviews (333 positive / 53 negative), recent and most-helpful. Plain keyword counting, fully reproducible; nothing here is written by a machine.
What positive reviews talk about
- Story & writing28% mention it
- Visuals & art6% mention it
- Music & audio5% mention it
- World & exploration5% mention it
What negative reviews complain about
- Story & writing34% mention it
- World & exploration9% mention it
Satisfaction by hours played
Same score, different games: see how sentiment holds up the longer people play.
Under 5h
58%
26 reviews
5-15h
87%
46 reviews
15-40h
86%
183 reviews
40-100h
91%
119 reviews
100h+
100%
12 reviews
Review sentiment over time
Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.
How this score was computed
The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.
| Component | Positive | Quality (0-100) | Weight (pseudo-reviews) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press reviews (OpenCritic) | – | 89 | 39 |
| Creator reviews (1 tracked) | – | 97 | 1 |
| All-time Steam reviews | 93% | 87 | 1116 |
| Metacritic user ratings | – | – | 0 |
| Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted) | 90% | 85 | 3000 |
| Calibration prior (typical game) | – | 72 | 50 |
Scoring window: since the last significant patch (May 16, 2024) · 300 reviews sampled · 37365 total reviews in window · weighted 232 up / 24.7 down · computed 2h ago · full methodology →
Press & Creators reviews (75)
Individual verdicts from outlets we track: scored reviews first, most trusted outlets first among them. The small badge is each outlet's trust score: how well its scoring history aligns with players.
- 90
“Vast as an oceanic soul of late-stage alcoholic, Disco Elysium remains one of the most sincere, deep and meaningful stories about destructive nostalgy, communism, and a true unending love.”
read full review ↗ - 95
“If you love high-quality narrative RPGs, Disco Elysium is practically a must-have for you. Thanks to its compelling story, richly detailed world, numerous interesting characters, and well-written dialogue, it’s the best thing to come along in this genre in recent years, a fact further enhanced by its polished gameplay mechanics and overall production quality. Only fans of complex combat systems or those who don’t like to read will be disappointed here.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is an absolute triumph. The narrative and dialogue, which is already wonderfully compelling on its own, has been given a massive boost thanks to the excellent voice acting introduced for the Final Cut. The gameplay features a host of branching paths for you to explore, and while the slow, methodical approach may turn a few people off, this is nevertheless one of the most well-told stories in any medium from the last few years. The performance issues at the time of writing slightly took the shine off things - and we hope they're ironed out soon via updates - but even with them present, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut stands as one of the best RPGs available on Switch.”
read full review ↗ - 91
“While I've played indie games with a pretty wide variety of styles and levels of quality since the launch of the Switch I can't say any of them has defied easy explanation as much as Disco Elysium for me...”
read full review ↗ - 100
“Disco Elysium : The Final Cut adds a lot of elements to its arsenal at the same time as it lands on PlayStation and Stadia. It is a masterpiece that should be played by all fans of RPGs. Entertaining and captivating is how I would summarize my trip to Elysium. I'll be back, for sure.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is an exceptional achievement in role-playing. Expertly written, it's an utterly engrossing detective drama at its best, and a fantastic sense of humour keeps the whole thing grounded. Its deliberately slow and methodical pacing won't be for everyone, but once you're invested, it's incredibly hard to put down. A haunting video game, for all the right reasons.”
read full review ↗ - 100
“The Final Cut update to Disco Elysium elevates this masterpiece of a game to the status of perfection.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“The new content added to Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is exactly what is needed to turn a great game into an amazing one.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“The voice that narrates everything and also plays your different stats is really satisfying to listen to, keeping me around to hear it all even though I could personally read way faster than he could talk. If you enjoy games that lean heavily into their dice rolling foundations, you should absolutely put your time into Disco Elysium; you will not regret it. With its myriad of technical difficulties on the Switch, however, it may be a good idea to look elsewhere unless portability is your main concern.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Disco Elysium: The Final Cut comes to Xbox in the best possible way: with its memorable story, its magnificent characters and with an unbeatable console adaptation.”
read full review ↗ - 90
“Disco Elysium’s dense, authored, yet player-driven storytelling uses the bones of RPG gameplay to deliver a truly modern piece of interactive political art.”
read full review ↗ - 80
“Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is a masterwork in video-game storytelling that will engross you from start to finish. Only persistent technical issues hold it back.”
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GameMAG
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Nintendo Life
Nindie Spotlight
Geeks & Com
Push Square
Capsule Computers
NintendoWorldReport
SomosXbox
PCMag
Tom's Guide…and 63 more tracked reviews.
Patch history
- Patch Notes [17/12/25]Dec 17, 2025
- Patch Notes [27/11/24]Nov 27, 2024
- Patch Notes [22/08/24]Aug 22, 2024
- Patch Notes [16.05.24]May 16, 2024significant · resets scoring window
- Patch Notes [30.06.22]Jun 30, 2022
- New Update: Dyslexia-Friendly FontsJun 30, 2022
- Patch Notes [14.06.22]Jun 14, 2022
- The Final Cut Anniversary!Mar 30, 2022significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 11.01.2022Jan 14, 2022
- Jamais Vu Update & huge thanks for 2021!Dec 22, 2021significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 11.10.2021Oct 14, 2021
- Two Year Anniversary!Oct 11, 2021significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 19.04.2021Apr 19, 2021
- Disco Elysium is now available in Russian!Jan 25, 2021
- Disco Elysium is now available in French, German and Traditional Chinese!Dec 22, 2020significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 02.07.2020Jul 2, 2020
- Disco Elysium is now available on Mac!Apr 27, 2020
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 17.04.2020Apr 17, 2020
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 31.03.2020Apr 1, 2020
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 27.03.2020 -《极乐迪斯科》 更新公告Mar 27, 2020significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 20.03.2020 -《极乐迪斯科》 更新公告Mar 20, 2020significant · resets scoring window
- Updates and Patches!Mar 18, 2020significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 11.02.2020Feb 12, 2020significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 23.01.2020Jan 24, 2020significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 15.11.19Dec 20, 2019
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes 11.11.19Nov 11, 2019significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes - 31.10.19Oct 31, 2019significant · resets scoring window
- Disco Elysium Patch Notes - 26.10.19Oct 26, 2019significant · resets scoring window