Disco Elysium Guide

This guide and walkthrough for Disco Elysium is a compendium of knowledge about this unusual game. Detailed information and tips contained in our guide will allow you to learn all the most important game mechanics, complete all main and side quests, properly develop your character and earn all achievements.

• Disco Elysium: Guide content
• Disco Elysium: Tips and tricks
• Disco Elysium: Basics
• Disco Elysium: FAQ
• Disco Elysium: All main quests
• Disco Elysium: All side quests
• Disco Elysium: PC system requirements
• Disco Elysium: Language versions
• Disco Elysium: All trophies, achievements
• Disco Elysium: Game's length

Disco Elysium: Guide content

The first major chapter of this guide focuses on the basics of Disco Elysium. This chapter opens with tips and tricks recommended for players new to this unusual isometric RPG. On separate pages in this chapter, we cover such important issues as character attributes, skills, ideology (political views), Thought Cabinet, and skill checks.

The second very extensive section of this Disco Elysium guide is a FAQ with answers to frequently asked questions. On separate pages, we explain in detail, e.g. how to get a Yellow Plastic Bag, how to make money, does the game has a time limit, are there any drugs and alcohol in Disco Elysium, is it possible to romance NPCs, can you use firearms, whether Harrier Du Bois (main character) can die, how to unlock fast travel, and is there a point of no return.

In a separate chapter, of course, you will find a detailed walkthrough for Disco Elysium. On separate pages of this chapter, we describe all the main quests that are necessary to complete the main storyline. Our Disco Elysium walkthrough also includes all the optional side quests available in the game.

This guide ends with the Appendix where you will find, among others, a list of all achievements along with tips on how to unlock them, as well as Disco Elysium's system requirements and a detailed keybinds list.

Disco Elysium: Tips and tricks

1. Start on Normal difficulty: this is the most appropriate difficulty level for anyone who is new to Disco Elysium and wants to learn the basics;
2. Character creation: The attribute points you assign to your character before the start of the game are permanent and cannot be changed later;
3. Skill check: in Disco Elysium you will encounter two types of skill checks - passive and active. Passive checks happen in the background and are automatically completed when the character makes a successful skill check. Active ones are those that you choose on your own during dialogues;
4. Experience Points: XP points in Disco Elysium are earned by talking to encountered NPCs and completing tasks;
5. Interactive items: pressing Tab or the right mouse button will highlight items that you can interact with;
6. The passage of time: time in Disco Elysium runs while talking to NPCs, sitting on a bench or reading, but stops while exploring;
7. Yellow Plastic Bag: when you leave the hotel, you can pick up a yellow bag - you will find it by the water, next to a man who is leaning against the railing. When you equip it, you will be able to pick up bottles and other plastic waste from the ground or pull it out of certain containers. You can later sell them at the Frittte kiosk (northeast of the hotel).

For more hints and tips, see the Beginners Guide section.

Disco Elysium: Basics

1. Attributes
2. Skills
3. Skill tests
4. Thought Cabinet
5. Character creation
6. Character Development
7. Drugs
8. Political Alignment
9. User interface
10. Dialogs

Disco Elysium: FAQ

1. How to get a yellow plastic bag?
2. How to get a prybar?
3. How to get a flashlight?
4. How to make money?
5. How to get a map?
6. How to open the garbage container?
7. How to pull down the hanging corpse?
8. Where is Evrart Claire?
9. Where is Measurehead?
10. Are romances possible?
11. Is there a time limit?
12. Is it possible to play as a female character?
13. Can the main character die?
14. What is included in The Final Cut edition?
15. Is there a controller supported?
16. Is there a console version?
17. How to redeem a Novelty cheque?
18. Is it possible to repeat skill checks?
19. How to heal an injury?
20. Where is the fridge?
21. Is the game difficult?
22. Are there firearms in the game?
23. How not to pay for the night?
24. How to use fast travel?
25. How to get to the western Martinaise?
26. Is there a point of no return?
27. How to speed up the passage of time?

Disco Elysium: All main quests

Identification of the body

1. Interview cafeteria manager
2. Inspect Victim's Body
3. Who notified RCM?
4. Ask Kim to talk about the case
5. Interview the Union boss
6. Open trash container
7. Getting the body down
8. Perform field autopsy
9. Find the bullet before you get fooled
10. Fridge victim's body
11. End-of-day debrief with Kim
12. Interrogate the vigilantes
13. The smoker on the balcony
14. Interview the Sunday friend
15. Interview the Wild Pines rep
16. Send victim’s body to processing
17. Joyce’s info on the lynching
18. The victim's tattoos
19. Run the number on the victim's armour

Motive

1. Prove your authority to Titus Hardie
2. Speak to the assault victim
3. Question Klaasje about the dead man
4. Doorgunner Megamix
5. Get the whole story from Titus

Ruby and shooter

1. Make Titus give up Ruby’s location
2. Determine where the shot came from
3. Find the murder weapon
4. Ask about Ruby in the village
5. Look for Ruby on the coast
6. Return to the Whirling-in-Rags
7. Inspect the window in Klaasje's bedroom
8. Go to the island
9. Open the blast door
10. Find fuel for the generator
11. Extract a confession from The Deserter
12. Extract a motive
13. Inspect the phasmid
14. The Return - finale

Disco Elysium: All side quests

Personal

1. Pay for damages
2. Find money for rent and pay Garte
3. Report your badge missing
4. Pay Lena back for pin
5. Return Lena’s pin
6. Wash of the death smell
7. Track down your badge
8. Track down your gun
9. Confront the Pigs and get your gun back

Identity

1. Find your paperwork
2. Read your ledger and name the case
3. Read the watermarks
4. The pissing competition
5. Get a reality lowdown
6. Talk to Joyce about the Pale
7. Find your heraldic bird
8. Ask Klaasje about Sunday night
9. Find the traffic hooligan
10. Call your station's lazareth

Union

1. What is the Race Enigma?
2. The special borscht
3. Confront Hardie boys about drug trade

Favors for Evrart

1. Open apartment door for Evrart
2. Get two signatures for Evrart

Equipment

1. Find your other shoe
2. Buy FALN pants from Cuno
3. Where is the rest of the armour?
4. Getting the Hanged Man's boots
5. Find the armoured gloves

Drugs

1. Find smokes and smoke them
2. Find booze and drink it
3. Find pyrholidon and slurp it
4. Find speed and snif it

Doomed Commercial Area

1. Investigate the Doomed Commercial Area
2. Pick up dice from the Dicemaker

Traces and crime scene

1. Find working class husband
2. Dead body on the boardwalk

Church and Ravers

1. What is Anodic Music?
2. Solve the Egg Head Puzzle
3. Make van Eyck's Jam Harder Core
4. Help Ravers start a nightclub
5. Sync the sines with Noid
6. Help Soona with her project

Cryptozoologists

1. Find Morell, the Cryptozoologist
2. Inspect the traps
3. Receive the pie from Gary
4. The Missing Insects Case

Political tasks

1. Turn back the wheels of time
2. Become a man of plenty
3. Get yourself organized
4. Take on La Responsabilite

Other

1. Investigate apartment
2. Explore the Whirling’s secret passages
3. Ask the petanque player about may bells
4. Ask Rene about the photo
5. Investigate apartment #10 for the cleaning lady
6. Split a "Kilo" with Cuno
7. Close the water lock on Wednesday
8. The Jam Mystery
9. Ask Scab Leader about tattoos
10. Replace lost boule
11. Arrest Klaasje
12. Take stuffed bird to Garte
13. Sing karaoke
14. Talk to Garte for Sylvie
15. Who put the clothes in the trash?
16. Ask gardener about gardening in March
17. Make truce with Cuno
18. Inspect Klaasje's buoy
19. Add even more beauty to the wall
20. The Doomed Hostel?
21. Rest in the flak tower
22. Offer figurines to Dolores Dei

Disco Elysium: PC system requirements

Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit;

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo;

RAM: 2 GB;

Graphics card: GeForce GTX 560 or better compatible with DirectX 11;

Disk space: 20 GB.

For more information about recommended system requirements for Disco Elysium on Windows and macOS, see the System requirements page.

Disco Elysium: Language versions

The game supports a few languages for the subtitles, however, the dubbing is available only in English. You can read more about this on the Language versions page.

Disco Elysium: All trophies, achievements

You can unlock 33 achievements. The list of all trophies lists each of the unlockable achievements, along with our commentary.

Disco Elysium: Game's length

The structure of Disco Elysium means that you can go through it several times, each time experiencing the story in a slightly different way. On a separate page of the guide, we indicate how long it takes to complete the main plot and side tasks.

Disco Elysium

October 15, 2019

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