Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review: a must-play Disco Elysium follow-up

Rewind the tape. Study the evidence. Zero Parades is the sophomore effort for ZA/UM, the developer behind Disco Elysium. The studio has been at the center of its own tangled mystery for years, after two of the key creatives behind Disco Elysium were ousted from the art collective in 2021. Even with extensive reports and documentaries surrounding the drama, it’s still a case with too many missing pieces. Somewhere in that mess, however, several of the remaining Disco Elysium developers at the studio got to work on a follow-up. It would be another narrative RPG cut from the same cloth, but something entirely new: A story about one spy’s quest for a second chance after betraying her comrades.