Disco Elysium IP owner ZA/UM has canceled an ongoing project codenamed X7 which reportedly was a standalone expansion to the 2019 RPG. As reported by GLHF.gg, the cancellation comes with a significant potential layoff of 24 employees who constitute a quarter of the company’s workforce.
According to ZA/UM president Ed Tomaszewski, Project X7 was reportedly “a game that was one to two years away from completion.” However, the redundancies caused by this cancellation will not only affect the X7 team but will potentially affect “non-development teams and non-X7 projects” too, said ZA/UM CEO Ilmar Kompus.
This is reportedly the third big project to be shelved at ZA/UM following the departure of Robert Kurvitz, Aleksander Rostov, and Helen Hindpere who were at the forefront of Disco Elysium development. According to GLHF’s sources, “a Disco Elysium sequel (codenamed Y12) [was] cut in 2022 and a game set in a new sci-fi IP (codenamed P1) [was] paused in 2023.”
The cancelation of X7 leaves two projects, codenamed C4 and M0, currently in development at the Estonia-turned-UK-based company. Project M0 is reportedly related to the Disco Elysium IP.
With the unfortunate legal tussle between ZA/UM the company and the original makers of Disco Elysium and the current development hell, the IP remains in limbo.
