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A group of developers who were initially tapped to work on the canceled sequel to Disco Elysium have announced the formation of a new development studio–Longdue Games–and a new game, which the studio describes as being “set in a game world conceived by the leads of the now-canceled Disco Elysium sequel.”
Longdue Games consists of about a dozen developers, many of whom either worked on Disco Elysium or were previously slated to work on its sequel before it was canceled. A number of legal disagreements between the game’s development studio/publisher ZA/UM and Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz and art director Aleksander Rostov ultimately led to the sequel’s cancellation, and although Longdue Games does describe its upcoming title as a “spiritual successor” to the original game, Kurvitz, Rostov, and ZA/UM have nothing to do with the project.
“Longdue’s …