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The video game also made it to the front cover of the magazine's special issue.

"Disco Elysium" shared the recognition with other games including "Grand Theft Auto V" (2013), "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" (2017), "Fortnite" (2017), "Dark Souls" (2011), "League of Legends" (2009), "Pokemon Go" (2016), "Minecraft" (2009), "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" (2011), "Portal 2" (2011).

According to TIME, "Disco Elysium" is "the perfect punctuation mark on a decade of excellent games". "It's the kind of video game that only comes at the turn of the decade, that special time when something ends and something new is born," the magazine wrote.

"Disco Elysium is a game that looks and plays like a game from 1999, a 2D isometric throwback with fully rendered backgrounds and point and click navigation," TIME wrote. "Disco Elysium is proof of what video game fans have known for years: that the medium has special strengths and can tell unique stories you won’t see on TV or read in a book. It’s a game that highlights how all video games are art."

ZA/UM also took home four awards from The Game Awards, the annual video game awards held in Los Angeles in December -- the best narrative, best debut indie game, best independent game and best role playing game.

The completion of "Disco Elysium" took approximately five years and was released in October of this year. The video game studio has for quite some time been operating in the United Kingdom. Members of the team come from various countries, while Estonians make up the core of it.