Disco Elysium Dev Announces Launch Date for Zero Parades: For Dead Spies Alongside New Trailer

ZA/UM, the indie game studio famous for the avant-garde Disco Elysium, has officially announced that its next game, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, will launch on May 21, 2026 on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG, with a PS5 release planned for later in 2026. The announcement was made alongside the release of an appropriately eerie release date trailer.

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is a story-rich indie spy thriller RPG that follows a renowned spy, Hershel Wilk, on one last mission. According to the game’s Steam Store page and the published imagery, it will have a customizable skill tree, a strong narrative in which choices matter, and a decent bit of tactical gameplay, all wrapped in a surrealist aesthetic.

Assume the role of Hershel Wilk, alias CASCADE, a brilliant but tormented operant in the city-state of Portofiro. 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 one desperate, final mission…