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.

Support on ZERO PARADES hasn’t stopped on release day. So far, ZA/UM has released two updates to address issues reported by players and deliver some fan-favorite improvements. The developers are committed to a fast post-launch cadence, additional updates are planned for the coming weeks. 

The Day 7 Patch (patch notes here) introduced a number of missing voice over lines and fixed some inconsistencies between written and voiced text. Based on player feedback, the map menu now also shows opening times for discovered locations on a schedule. 

The Day 14 Patch (patch notes here) added missing voice over notably for Melita, Karolina and Ultra Violeta and introduced two major features which were requested by the community: Players can now use number keys to select dialogue options and create quick saves (F5) and load the most recent saves (F9). 

The studio is hard at work on future updates including community requests like adding an instant language switch allowing players language to switch text between any two different languages, improvements to the inventory system including adding filters, and seeing status effects before taking them. Additionally, the game is receiving memory optimizations and technical improvements across the board.

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.

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is coming to PC (Steam/Epic Games Store/GOG) on May 21, 2026 at $39.99, followed by PS5 later in 2026.