He typically gives high praise to stuff that has a lot of atmosphere, an interesting story, and a lot of encouragement for the player to keep moving forward. His favorite games are Silent Hill 2, Portal, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Shadow of the Colossus, Thief, Metroid Prime. He likes games that have a beginning, clear progression, and then an ending. Games that are often called immersive. So it doesn’t surprise me he would like Disco Elysium. He got his start in making classic Sierra style adventure games, the kind of games that influenced DE too.

His own games are pretty good by the way. I really like The Consuming Shadow and Poacher.

Really? Like, he originally became very prominent for making an artsy fartsy game about talking to people. I don’t follow him closely but I’ve always have had respect for yahtzee if only for making the chzo mythos series.