Free 'Disco Elysium-Like' RPG Launches On PC, Made In 3 Days
Topics: Indie Games, PC, Free Games
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Topics: Indie Games, PC, Free Games
What do you get if you combine the 2016 indie darling Firewatch with the 2019 indie darling, Disco Elysium?
Well, you’d get something like Pyre Lookout, a new free game which has just launched on PC and has all the makings of a traditional CRPG, albeit on a much smaller scale.
Created in three days by a team of two, Pyre Lookout is a game about playing as a fire lookout who must respond to a forest fire with the most appropriate action.
The blurb on Pyre Lookout reads: “You are Gerard Path, Senior Signalling Specialist at Pyre Lookout Unit (used to be Division, but, you know, budget cuts). After years of boredom, you've finally noticed a fire. Do you have the right form to report the fire?”
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Just by looking at the screenshots, the Disco Elysium comparisons are pretty obvious.
There’s a top-down, isometric view of the game world, and the characters are represented in a similar art style to the way they are in the ZA/UM game. Even the text menu on the right-hand side of the screen looks pretty identical.
And it’s something that developer outstar hasn’t shied away from. In fact, they take those comparisons with pride.
Given that the game was created for the game jam Ludum Dare 59, which had the theme of “Signal”, it’s pretty easy to see where its inspirations lie. As outstar writes, “the conversation went: ‘hey, what's the next thing we can attempt to make in three days?’, ‘Disco sounds reasonable!’”
Of course, outstar also makes sure to shout out ZA/UM by adding “although Disco Elysium took much more time and talent”.
Either way, it should scratch that Disco Elysium itch while we wait for ZA/UM’s Zero Parades: For Dead Spies to launch later in May, which is neither a sequel nor a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium, but still retains a lot of the same DNA.
If you want to download and play Pyre Lookout on your PC, you can grab it from the developer’s itch.io page. There’s also an in-browser version you can play, if you’d rather not download it.
There’s a different version for each type of operating system—Windows, Mac, and Linux, so you should be able to play it no matter what type of computer you’re using.
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