Summer Eternal, one of the infinite number of Disco Elysium spiritual successor studios that cropped up last year, have been mostly quiet on whatever it is they’ve been cooking up since forming. They announced their existence with an evocative political manifesto, and today they revealed what’s next. No, it’s not a video game, but something a lot more physical, tangible, and interestingly old fashioned: a book.
Quite simply titled Summer Eternal Anthology, it’s actually volume one of that planned anthology, which does run on the assumption that they manage to release another one. A press release from Summer Eternal describes it as “part cultural journal, part expedition log, part development diary,” and, most unusually of all, “part physical game announcement.”
INTRODUCING: Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One. This incendiary tome is part cultural journal, part development diary, part exclusive game reveal. Built by firestarters, for firestarters. summereternal.com/anthology
— SUMMER ETERNAL (@summereternal.com) September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
With the internet being the de facto place you announce a videogame these days, Summer Eternal are certainly doing something different here, more akin to magazine exclusives from days of yore. It’s a bold move, and one they’re hoping will support them financially, for this book is both an announcement teaser and a source of income in itself. There’ll apparently be info on gameplay systems, the game’s world, and how it all looks. Oh, and the game has a codename too, “Red Rooster.”
Aside from that, you’ll also find a few non-fiction essays, interviews, political thinkpieces related to the games industry, and a recap of what Summer Eternal have gone through to establish a worker-owned co-op. You’ll have to wait a while for it though, as it’s planned for spring 2026 earliest, summer 2026 latest.
In case you need a bit of a refresher on Summer Eternal as a studio compared to the other teams that boast of having former Disco devs on the books, this is the one co-founded by Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić, both former writers at ZA/UM. You may remember that Tuulik and Klindžić have had some legal back-and-forth with Riaz Moola, founder and owner of Longdue, a different supposed Disco successor.
Moola alleges that the pair violated a non-compete clause after they were previously employed by him, whereas Tuulik and Klindžić claim that this particular clause covered a separate industry. People Make Games explored some of this particular legal battle in a follow-up to their original Disco Elysium/ ZA/UM documentary from 2023, if you want a bit more depth.
