- ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut | Arriving October 1st - 17 September 2026
We’re excited to announce that ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut comes to PC on October 1st, available as a free update for all owners of ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut is the definitive edition of our espionage RPG, bringing more story, scenery and mind-fuckery to discover during your bid to reunite The Whole Sick Crew.And yes, we heard you: that includes more Melita.At a glance, ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut contains: A new Dramatic Encounter: Hershel and Ramses, baked out of their brains, trying to escape Quisach Roundabout. Approximately 40,000 words of new material: discuss L-Pop with Ramses, get into dolphin-human hybridity with HOLOCENE, and learn more about the Opera from Melita. Backstage Mode: take a stroll through our development process with technical breakdowns, cut content and development stories told by our Art Director. More to Portofiro: including n…
- 2 months after releasing Zero Parades, Studio ZA/UM is laying off employees: 'Its commercial performance has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size' - 17 July 2026
Two months after the release of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies , the followup to its stunning detective RPG Disco Elysium , Studio ZA/UM says the game hasn't sold as well as needed, and as a result it's laying off employees... Read more.
- Steam Summer Sale: Save on Disco Elysium & ZERO PARADES - 1 July 2026
It's Steam Summer Sale time! Get 10% off our espionage RPG, ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, with an additional 10% discount for owners of Disco Elysium through the Disgraced State Agents Bundle on Steam, bringing the total discount to 20% off! Duty calls.For those wanting to explore Revachol, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is available at 90% off during the Steam Summer Sale. Our biggest discount yet. The Steam Summer Sale ends July 9th.
- ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is Now Available - 22 May 2026
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is now available to play on PC.In ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, play as Hershel Wilk, a brilliant but burnt out operant (cryptonym: CASCADE), who’s recalled to the city of Portofiro five years after the greatest failure of her life - the disintegration of her old network. Now back in-theatre, Hershel must pull together the ‘Whole Sick Crew’ for one last show. Her final, desperate mission. The game is out now with English voiceover, and full text localisation in English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Latin America). Eight additional languages are planned and will be added through free updates beginning later this year: French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Traditional Chinese, and Turkish (listed alphabetically, not in order of release).To celebrate the launch of ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on PC, a new line o…
- ICYMI: Watch the ZERO PARADES Showcase Now - 20 May 2026
Our upcoming espionage RPG, ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, launches across PC tomorrow! To prepare you for your time in Portofiro, the full video from our ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies Showcase is now available to watch on YouTube: The Showcase revealed a gameplay deep-dive with developers, the music video of Ultra Violeta’s “Cover the Moon”, and announcements of a ZERO PARADES-inspired fashion collection from ZA/UM Atelier and a Pen & Paper one-shot adventure by our voice actors.
- ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies launches on PC May 21st! - 31 March 2026
Our upcoming espionage RPG, ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, arrives May 21st on Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG for $39.99. A PlayStation®5 (PS5®) will come later this year. The game releases with full English voice-over and text localisation in four languages:GermanSpanish (Latin America)Chinese (Simplified)RussianWith eight more to be released later in the year as free updates. In ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, assume the role of Hershel Wilk, a brilliant but tormented operant on one final, desperate assignment in the city-state of Portofiro. Gather your broken network, untangle a web of lies, and prove yourself on the world stage - or blow it all up again. Try ZERO PARADES before launch by downloading the free-to-play demo, available now until April 13th.
- Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them' - 13 March 2026
Disco Elysium was a singular experience when it dropped in 2019. There was really just nothing else like it: Most people who wanted to compare it to something reached back to Black Isle's 1999 masterwork Planescape: Torment, because such intricate, hyper-verbose RPGs that work so well are genuine rarities... Read more.
- 75% off Disco Elysium for Steam Next Fest - 23 February 2026
Steam Next Fest is upon us, and with it comes the first demo of our upcoming espionage RPG ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies. Experience the first few hours of gameplay, with two main quests to complete, various side activities to explore and an array of curious characters to interact with. To celebrate the occasion, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is 75% off until March 9th, giving you two weird and wonderful city-states to explore:
- Steam Next Fest has the perfect game demo for Disco Elysium fans, but it's not ZA/UM's successor - 23 February 2026
There are two periods of my gaming life: before I played Disco Elysium , and after I played Disco Elysium. The former was filled with increasingly more average Bethesda RPGs and live-service shooters that tickle those 'numbies go up' bits of my brain, while the latter has been a constant search for anything that scratches a similar itch to ZA/UM's independent epic. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: "Imagination doesn't need a lot": Disco Elysium successor announces first RPG Disco Elysium's controversial mobile port is out now, and it's proving divisive Get Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, and four other amazing RPGs for just $13
- Play our upcoming espionage RPG at Steam Next Fest! - 12 February 2026
This News post covers our new, upcoming project ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, our upcoming espionage RPG, debuts at Steam Next Fest this month with a free, time-limited demo. Step into the shoes of Hershel Wilk, our brilliant but tormented operant, and explore the city-state of Portofiro in a tailored version of the game’s opening.Play through two quests, unravel various side stories, and meet some of the quirky and questionable characters residing in our surrealist environment.Curious? Take a look at the first 15 minutes of demo gameplay:The ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies demo will be available from February 23rd through March 16th.#
- Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting' - 4 February 2026
God bless Aleksander Rostov. The art director has been a highlight of Noclip's documentary about the making of Disco Elysium so far, always chiming in with the kind of insight you get with the real-life equivalent of Disco's "Actual Art Degree" thought cabinet project. The latest episode is focused entirely on Disco's art, which means Rostov gets to talk almost the entire way through, and everything he says is fascinating... Read more.
- Disco Elysium had so much text it broke the branching narrative software: 'we were writing too much' - 15 January 2026
Noclip's documentary about the making of Hades is a favorite of mine, but their current series on Disco Elysium is shaping up to be another all-timer. The third episode is out now, and while the first two dealt with the foundation of Za/um as a collective and how the setting of Elysium evolved through tabletop roleplaying and Robert Kurvitz's novel Sacred and Terrible Air , episode three is an anatomically thorough dissection of how it was written... Read more.
- Всем ПК-геймерам бесплатно раздают Disco Elysium: The Final Cut в Epic Games Store - 26 December 2025
В ближайшие сутки пользователи Epic Games Store могут бесплатно получить Disco Elysium: The Final Cut . Ролевую игру раздают по акции в честь католического Рождества и Нового года. Забрать подарок можно в том числе из России.
- Patch Notes [17/12/25] - 17 December 2025
Our latest update to Disco Elysium includes the following: Unity vulnerability patch.A link to the ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies in the game storefront.If you encounter any issues when running the game, please reach out to [email protected] so we can investigate.
- Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings' - 2 October 2025
Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has unionized. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz , representatives of the studio's new Workers' Alliance, as well as company president Ed Tomaszewski, announced the formation of the union and its voluntary recognition by studio management. The announcement comes as ZA/UM has finally started showing off its second game, the upcoming spy RPG Zero Parades, set to release in 2026... Read more.
- "Imagination doesn't need a lot": Disco Elysium successor announces first RPG - 30 September 2025
Usually I don't cover announcements of announcements. It's a strange marketing ploy that often tells us nothing about the game in question and only serves to generate unnecessary hype for a something that it may or may not succeed in matching. However, Disco Elysium successor studio Summer Eternal is announcing its first game with a physical reveal campaign. Yes, you read that right. The game itself won't be a physical release - not necessarily, anyway. The announcement itself, however, will be a physical book, soundtrack, and art piece shipped to your door on the exact same day as everyone else in the world. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best story games in 2025 Disco Elysium's controversial mobile port is out now, and it's proving divisive Get Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, and four other amazing RPGs for just $13
- Would-be Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift morphs from an isometric RPG into a third-person ski resort murder mystery - 18 September 2025
Dark Math Games, one of the multiple studios staffed by former Disco Elysium developers to pop up and announce a very Disco Elysiumy RPG last year, have given their game a revamp. XXX Nightshift is now called Tangerine Antarctic, with the switch also bringing a shift from isometric perspective to third-person. If you missed the recent flourishing of Disco spiritual successors created by ex-ZA/UMers, the others include Longdue's RPG Hopetown and Summer Eternal 's mystery project. Meanwhile, Disco writer Robert Kurvitz and artist Aleksander Rostov are making something for a studio called Red Info, and ZA/UM themselves are working on a new CRPG called Zero Parades . It's all very easy to keep track of. Read more
- Zero Parades looks to be the new name of ZA/UM's post-Disco Elysium spy cRPG, not that its reveal paraded that around - 19 August 2025
Remember the spy-themed game ZA/UM have settled into making after all the Disco Elysium drama? Well, unless they've got another espionagey cRPG in the works, Project C4 has gotten a new name in a cameo at Gamescom Opening Night Live . It now seemingly goes by Zero Parades. Yep, amid the waves of spiritual successors , after all the controversy around the exits of key team members and cancellations of Discoey things , this is the thing those who remain at the studio have been working on. It looks and sounds very Disco Elysiumy. Read more
- Disco Elysium's controversial mobile port is out now, and it's proving divisive - 5 August 2025
There are few games that live in my head rent-free. I often think about Before Your Eyes, a tear-jerking narrative adventure played entirely by blinking. Citizen Sleeper also pops into my head relatively regularly. And then there's Disco Elysium . I've run out of superlatives for Studio ZA/UM's detective RPG masterpiece, but the game has been marred in recent years by explosive divisions within the development team, which has led to the original creators leaving the studio. The true story is far more complex and much of it likely hidden from the public, but, as a result, the Disco Elysium mobile port- which released today with little fanfare - has been met with derision. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, and four other amazing RPGs for just $13 Beloved story RPG Disco Elysium is coming back, in a surprising new form ZA/UM comes in from the…
- The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume - 9 May 2025
In a surprise appearance alongside UK indie band and Disco Elysium composers Sea Power , voice actor and musician Mikee W. Goodman donned the green jacket and flared trousers of Disco Elysium protagonist Harry Du Bois to belt out a rendition of "The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns." The melancholy song is the subject of Disco's memorable and much-loved karaoke sidequest ... Read more.
