Thank you for the suggestions! I will slowly check them out... a friend of mine worked on Fallout:NV! Can't believe I've never played.

    None of them come close to DE in what I 
    understand you to be looking for, we could only 
    be so lucky. 

I was hoping that some games would, quite frankly, simply ape Disco Elysium's thought-cabinet mechanic to an extent!

I'm surprised they haven't, especially considering DE's success, particularly with indie fans and creators. I thought DE might spawn sort of a mini-genre.