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Пикник на обочине (Roadside Picnic) influenced Disco Elysium
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The influence
Пикник на обочине Roadside Picnic
Book · 1972
The work it shaped
Disco Elysium
Video Game · 2019
The evidence
ZA/UM have named the Strugatsky brothers among the influences on Disco Elysium, alongside Planescape: Torment and Hammett: a grimy post-Soviet world at the edge of an inexplicable, reality-eroding phenomenon, the Pale.
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