10 Video Games With Zero Expectations (That Blew EVERYONE Away)
4. Disco Elysium
When Disco Elysium released in October 2019, few in the wider gaming sphere had heard anything about it at all.
Developed by a totally unknown team, ZA/UM, the RPG understandably arrived without much in the way of buzz, no matter that this all changed once reviewers got their hands on it.
Word-of-mouth turned the ferociously inventive, exceptionally well-written game into an overnight smash hit, wiping the floor with most every higher-profile RPG released that same year and winning numerous prominent Game of the Year awards.
For a game with an incredibly esoteric title created by an alcoholic novelist, Robert Kurvitz, whose original novel set in the game's world sold just 1,000 copies in 2013, to quickly end up heralded as one of the greatest RPGs in the history of the medium is an almost unfathomable glow-up all around.
Where surprise hits are concerned, this might be the most unexpected on this entire list, given the utter lack of presence it had in the cultural conversation prior to release.