ZAUM Announces Zero Parades Launch on May 21, 2026

ZAUM Studio, the Estonian developer behind the acclaimed 2019 role-playing game Disco Elysium, announced on March 31, 2026, that its upcoming espionage RPG, Zero Parades For Dead Spies, will launch on May 21, 2026, for personal computers. The title will be available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG at a price of $39.99, with a PlayStation 5 version planned for later in the year. The game is also confirmed to be Steam Deck Verified, allowing portable play.

Players take on the role of Herschel Wilk, codenamed CASCADE, a skilled but exhausted operative emerging from obscurity after a mission failure five years earlier that devastated her team. Set in the fictional city of Portofiro, embroiled in ideological and cultural conflicts, the story centers on CASCADE's final assignment to investigate a mystery and rebuild a network of contacts. The narrative explores themes of failure, redemption, and human fragility, with interactions shaped by three major factions: a communist Superbloc, a fascist superpower, and a shadowy international development bank.

Gameplay draws from Disco Elysium's isometric perspective and dialogue-driven structure, incorporating dice-roll mechanics where...