How many copies did Disco Elysium sell? Sales and players
How How many copies did Disco Elysium sell? Sales and players is performing — stats, facts, and milestones.
Disco Elysium had sold more than 5 million copies by September 2025, The New York Times reported, six years after its October 2019 launch. Its studio, ZA/UM, turned over €13.1 million and made a €6.7 million profit in the year to April 2020, the game’s first six months on sale, ERR News reported.
Disco Elysium is an RPG developed by ZA/UM which places you in the fictional district of Martinaise, in the role of a detective who has to investigate a lynching. From there, you go on an adventure filled with deception, mature themes, and much more. It’s one of the best RPGs of recent years, so let’s look at how popular it is in numbers.
Disco Elysium key statistics
- 5 million+ copies sold by September 2025.
- €13.1 million: ZA/UM turnover in the year to April 2020.
- €6.7 million: ZA/UM profit in the game’s first six months.
- €14.7 million: ZA/UM turnover from May 2020 to April 2021.
- 8,081 players at once on Steam in March 2020, its record.
- 1 million words of dialogue, all voiced in The Final Cut (2021).
Disco Elysium sales
Disco Elysium has sold more than 5 million copies
- Sales passed 5 million copies by September 2025.
- The game came out on PC in October 2019, and The Final Cut brought it to PlayStation and Xbox in 2021.
That’s a big number for a dense, text-heavy RPG from a first-time studio, and it shows how popular the game was and still is.
Disco Elysium players
Disco Elysium peaked at 8,081 players at once on Steam in March 2020
| Year | Most players at once on Steam | Month |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5,124 | October |
| 2020 | 8,081 | March |
| 2021 | 7,191 | April |
| 2022 | 5,802 | October |
| 2023 | 4,028 | January |
| 2024 | 6,874 | June |
| 2025 | 4,716 | January |
| 2026 (to 30 October) | 4,229 | January |
Figures from Steam Charts. The April 2021 peak followed the release of The Final Cut that March.
Is Disco Elysium dying? No. It’s a finished single-player game, so its crowds come in waves, but Steam peaks have stayed between about 4,000 and 7,200 every year since 2021, and sales passed 5 million in 2025.
Disco Elysium revenue
Disco Elysium made a €6.7 million profit in its first six months
- ZA/UM turned over €13.1 million in the financial year from May 2019 to April 2020, and the game was reported to have broken even on its release day.
- In the 16 months before release, ZA/UM had made a loss of €617,246.
- From May 2020 to April 2021, ZA/UM turned over €14.7 million and made a €2.8 million net profit, Geenius reported.
| Financial year | Turnover | Profit |
|---|---|---|
| May 2019 to April 2020 | €13.1 million | €6.7 million |
| May 2020 to April 2021 | €14.7 million | €2.8 million (net) |
The game’s popularity was the driving force behind ZA/UM’s success, turning a loss-making studio into a profitable one within six months of launch.
ZA/UM’s majority stake was bought with €4.8 million of the studio’s own money, a lawsuit alleged
- In November 2022, Disco Elysium producer Kaur Kender sued, alleging that Estonian businessman Ilmar Kompus had bought a story draft and four sketches for the sequel, sold them back to ZA/UM for €4.8 million and used the money to take a majority stake, Game World Observer reported.
- Kender withdrew the suit in December 2022, after Kompus returned the €4.8 million to ZA/UM.
- Lead designer Robert Kurvitz, art director Aleksander Rostov and writer Helen Hindpere had left the studio “involuntarily” at the end of 2021.
- In March 2023, ZA/UM said Kurvitz and Rostov had dropped their unfair dismissal claims. The pair said they would keep pursuing legal action.
This is the biggest controversy surrounding the game by far. Kurvitz and Rostov built Disco Elysium from a world they had been writing for years, and losing the studio behind it was a hard blow for its fans.
Disco Elysium size and playtime
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut has over 1 million words of dialogue
- The Final Cut, released in March 2021, voiced the full game, about 1 million words, IGN reported.
- The game’s lead writer said adding more lines and voicing them makes the game far more accessible.
Disco Elysium can take more than 90 hours to complete
- It takes more than 60 hours of continuous play to finish if you’re a reasonably completionist player, Robert Kurvitz said before launch in September 2019, PC Gamer reported.
- It takes 90 hours if you savour every detail.
- If you rush through it, it takes about 30 hours.
- It has about 100 tasks, about 100 inventory items and 24 skills, and took 5 years to make.
Completionists will find that Disco Elysium packs a ton of content and can be hard to 100%, but casual players can still enjoy it without that pressure.