Pick up the pieces of your broken network, untangle a bloody web of intrigue at the End of History, and prove yourself on the big stage or blow it all up – again.

Brilliant, burnt-out, possibly cursed – you play as operant Hershel Wilk, alias CASCADE. Five years ago you led your team into the abyss and have been haunted by your failures ever since. Now you've been recalled for a mysterious assignment that may give you a chance to prove yourself again.

Find yourself thrown into a three-way struggle for cultural and ideological power, played out across an unforgettable new city. In ZERO PARADES, the world itself is a character with its own secrets, traumas, and miracles for you to discover.

To get anywhere in this world, you'll need friends. Unfortunately, you don't have any. Instead, you'll go up against international bankers, foreign techno-fascists, psychic doppelgängers, a paranoid TV presenter, a man with a box for a heart, and dozens more. Everyone you meet has their own agendas, beliefs, and secrets for you to uncover and turn to your own ends.

In this line of work you're going to fail *way* more often than you succeed. That much is expected of you. What matters is how you pick yourself back up. As an operant, your dice are in the hand of fate. If they don't go your way (and they won't), you'll have to improvise and hope the consequences are ones you can live with.

Developer ZA/UM revealed that Zero Parades: Director’s Cut is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on November 3, 2026, launching alongside the previously announced PlayStation 5 version.

The reveal comes as part of a new Console Feature Trailer, premiering during the Galaxies Showcase, which offers the first look at Zero Parades on Nintendo Switch 2 and highlights how the game makes use of features across both consoles.

On Nintendo Switch 2, Zero Parades: Director’s Cut takes advantage of Joy Con 2 mouse controls, touchscreen support and HD Rumble 2. Players can work their way through conversations, intel and the streets of Portofiro using controls built around the flexibility of the system, whether playing handheld or docked.

On PlayStation 5, the experience has been built around the DualSense wireless controller and the atmosphere of Portofiro. Adaptive triggers, haptic feedback and controller speaker support bring more of the world into the player’s hands, while 3D Audio and 4K presentation draw players further into its streets, conversations and spycraft.

Whichever platform you choose, the assignment remains the same.

The Director’s Cut adds substantial new material to the game, including a new Dramatic Encounter, Backstage Mode, new outfits, interface improvements and approximately 40,000 words of new writing across Zero Parades.

At the centre of the new content is the Quisach Roundabout, a new Dramatic Encounter in which Hershel and her old friend Ramses find themselves behind the wheel of a hijacked tuk tuk while extremely high and seemingly unable to leave a roundabout.

Backstage Mode opens up the development of Zero Parades itself. Players can explore earlier iterations of selected environments, discover cut content and hear stories from across the development team, narrated by Art Director Kaspar Tamsalu.

The Director’s Cut also completes and revises the English voice over and introduces further visual, accessibility, interface and quality of life improvements across the game.

Zero Parades: Director’s Cut is already available on PC as a free upgrade for all existing owners.

Key Features:

• Become an Anti-Icon: Play as Hershel - brilliant, relentless, magnetic… and cursed. A former top operant whose touch turns everything to ash. She is as dangerous to her enemies as she is to her friends. 
• Espionage Reinvented: Descend into a world of bootleg mind-erasure, failed space programmes, and state-sponsored pop stars. This is espionage stripped of glamour - no parades, no happy endings - at least probably not for you.
• Failing Forward: In the life of an operant, failure is inevitable. Here, it’s another way forward - every misstep opens doors that success would run swiftly by.  
• A Story-Rich Espionage RPG: From the studio which brought you Disco Elysium. Blending the psychological depth of a spy novel with surrealist undertones and richly drawn characters. 
• A Question of Identity: Who are you when no one is watching? Or, at least, when you *think* no one is? In ZERO PARADES, the answer will define much more than just the assignment. Cope with the terror of reality by giving up parts of yourself and try not to lose your mind in the process.

Currently available for coming to PC (Steam/Epic Games Store/GOG) , Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and PS5 on November 3, 2026.