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Zero Parades, the spy game from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM, is coming in May

The Steam Next Fest demo is still up too—ZA/UM says it'll be available to play until April 13.

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Disco Elysium studio's new RPG Zero Parades is coming out in May, the developer's first release since several key creatives left the company

ZA/UM's extended the Steam demo to celebrate

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Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

Cops are out, spies are in.

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Even after ZA/UM's messy breakup, the writing team still has a cadre of sad communists—but you won't have to play Zero Parades as one if you don't want to

But I will, though. Just so you know.

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Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them'

Disco Elysium was one-of-a-kind when it came out in 2019, but that won't be the case for ZA/UM's upcoming Zero Parades.

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Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance

Two locked doors, two surprisingly funny and nuanced dialogue puzzles.

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ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'

Harrier Who Bois?

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It's only March, but I'm calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026's best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium

It's more than D&D Disco Elysium, but it's also absolutely D&D Disco Elysium.

PC Gamer

The new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce

It ain't never gonna be what it was.

PC Gamer

Steam Next Fest kicks off this month, and ZA/UM Studio's next game Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is getting a free demo to try out

ZA/UM Studio has announced that a free demo for Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will be available during Steam Next Fest this month.

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Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting'

ZA/UM's original art director breaks it down.

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The Decade's Finest RPG Is Now A Fashion House Serving Looks

What drew me to Disco Elysium from the start was the fashion, when I saw someone wearing that very jacket. That was also the start of studio ZA/UM’s fashion-forward Atelier, headed by Kristiina Ago.

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Disco Elysium devs built the RPG's visual style as a "cover band" for Obsidian's "great comeback game," Pillars of Eternity

"We were like, 'we should steal that'"

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The Outer Worlds 2's toothless satire of capitalism should be a disappointment to everyone, except Microsoft

"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead."

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Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings'

The Workers' Alliance at ZA/UM was organized through the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain.

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Summer Eternal, one of the most exciting studios to come out of the Disco Elysium fallout, will announce its first game exclusively through 'the analog medium' of a vinyl record and a book of art, essays, and dev diaries

It looks sick.

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We finally saw ZA/UM's Zero Parades in action and even though it's extremely Disco Elysium, the protagonist couldn't be more different

It still can't shake the Disco Elysium comparisons though.

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The Disco Elysium spiritual successor rivalry gets even more confusing as one of the studios made of former ZA/UM devs change their new RPG's name and gameplay style

XXX Nightshift is now Tangerine Antarctic

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I'm relieved to see the Disco Elysium successor is just as strange and dark – I've had my fill of fantasy RPGs for the year

Opinion | There's more to RPGs than high fantasy – who knew?

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Some of Disco Elysium's best ideas are still around in Zero Parades, but the CRPG thriller has an almost impossible task ahead of it

Gamescom 2025 | Zero Parades is an spy thriller CRPG where you're an "anti-Bond" who's haunted by her past failures, but can it step out from Disco Elysium's shadow?

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The new CRPG from the Disco Elysium studio actually looks kind of cool, but after a biblically messy breakup with the original devs it's hard to get invested

Is it too soon to hope?

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The people who brought you the $165 Disco Elysium trash bag now bring you an $800 The Alters tracksuit

For the next time you get stranded off-world.

Player One

'Disco Elysium' Comes to Android August 5 with Free First Chapters

'Disco Elysium' launches on Android August 5 with the first two chapters free to play, bringing its story-driven RPG experience to mobile users.

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The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce

Tabletop roleplaying drives videogame RPGs to be better.

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Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals "key design tenet" mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: "Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful"

Interview with the designer of Disco Elysium's free tabletop RPG spiritual successor

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