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In an undated image provided by ZA/UM, a scene from Disco Elysium. Disco Elysium is a detective story with the soul of a tortured poet. — ZA/UM via The New York Times

The heart of Disco Elysium is a murder mystery.

You start as a disheveled detective with a savage hangover. Your clothes – and memory – are missing. Not far beyond your destroyed hotel room, someone is dead.