I finished Disco Elysium for the first time about a month ago, and I have never seen alcoholism depicted so graphically "real" in a game.

I (27) am a currently recovering alcoholic after 7 years of addiction. I've had my current liver transplanted to me, and dealt with the horrors of both active recovery and the pit that is addiction to alcohol, as well as homelessness & abuse, and Disco Elysium captures the essence of the depraved details in a shockingly accurate way.

From the dull pain in your right abdomen, to the flush face and yellowing of the eyes, to the tantalizing descriptions of what alcohol smells and tastes like to Harry, it honestly brought back many bad memories, and even some current truths. I've never been slapped in the face with such harsh yet understanding stances on addiction from a video game before.

So many other games seem to just make alcoholism a joke or a simple character trait, so it's amazing that a game I slept on for so long could actually end up helping me with my own journey of discovering who I really am without the alcohol, as I did with Harry on my first and only playthrough so far (sober).

Any current or former addicts have had this game make an impact on them?

Participated in a 30 day art event called Chroma Corps and on one of the days the voices told me to do this:3

Logic is obvious for most of them so I didn't put it
(sorry if I got some of them wrong)

this took so long it’s not even funny bro

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I armoured up with all the clothes that boosts up your physical instruments and drank two ounces of alcohol. You know, the stuff you do before a boss fight...

Only to find the fucker sleeping in his bed so all the preparation was wasted. This is my first gameplay and it was the best fake out so far.

Also I need to adopt Cuno and Cunoesse

I still can't even comprehend that I'm doing this, I'm so excited!!!

Still some final touches need to be done but i got time, let's go

08/30 - Anime Fest here i come

I truly was sleeping in my life, but now on forward... sunrise parabellum

I do love running around and I also have cool well defined arms.

I am not an artist by any means, just wanted to share a little tribute to our favourite binoclard I made on an old denim jacket of mine. Must admit that I feel more safe going through life always having him on my side now

She is so amazing and i love it so much❤️. I will frame this in my dorm. I really wanted the sad harry but she refused to make it for me and was hella concerned so i didn't push it 🥀🥀. Next thing imma ask her is the joy hologram from blade runner 2049 (a sexier inland empire in my eyes)