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Return as burned-out spy Hershel “Cascade” Wilk to a fractured city, investigate a conspiracy, and shape each risky encounter.
Released 21 May 2026
Rebuild Your Spy Network
Risk Stress on Checks
Shape Hershel’s Conditioning
From the creators of Disco Elysium comes ZERO PARADES – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate assignment. Gather your broken network, untangle a web of lies, and prove yourself on the world stage - or blow it all up again.
Developed by ZA/UM · Published by ZA/UM
You play as Hershel Wilk, an operant known as CASCADE, recalled five years after a disastrous mission. In a city divided by competing powers, she takes on a mysterious assignment that could let her prove herself again while confronting the failures that still haunt her.
Explore the city, talk with its residents, investigate leads, and piece together the motives and secrets of potential allies and adversaries. Dialogue and skill checks let you approach problems through deduction, subterfuge, or violence, with choices affecting how events unfold.
Build Hershel’s abilities through Conditioning, which can unlock new options and shape her approach. Manage Fatigue, Anxiety, and Delirium as they rise through events and choices; exertion can improve a dice roll, but adds to the physical or psychological strain.
The supplied reviews are divided, but players who enjoy the game often praise its distinctive art and richly detailed city, along with the espionage mystery, character stories, and systems that make skill checks feel consequential. Some also single out the tense, split-second decision scenes. Others find the writing or setting hard to follow, and mention voice-and-text inconsistencies and vague quest guidance.
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.
Uncover secrets hidden in the lost corners of the city and within your own mind. Navigate a murky world of potential informants and adversaries. Pass skill checks to uncover their true motivations through subterfuge, violence, or deduction. As an operant, there are multiple ways to approach every problem - your choices and methods will be your own, and so will the consequences.
Find yourself thrown into a three-way struggle for cultural and ideological power, played out across an unforgettable city. 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 ZERO PARADES, even the world itself is a character with its own secrets, traumas, and miracles for you to discover.
Operants subject themselves to years of psychological training to hone their minds into their greatest weapons. Do you favor animal-like reflexes, a philosophical approach, or a different cover story for every occasion? Through Conditioning, you'll turn the deepest aspects of Hershel's identity into potent abilities and unlock new paths forward. You can even change the rules of the game itself.
Pressures simulate the physical and psychological toll of being in-theatre. Exertion pushes dice rolls in your favour – just remember that you’re gambling with your life. Keep your Fatigue, Anxiety, and Delirium in check or deal with the long-term repercussions.
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. If the dice don't go your way (and they won't) you'll have to improvise and hope the consequences are ones you can live with.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 55 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
