Zero Parades looks and acts like Disco Elysium. It's another text-heavy RPG where the rolling of dice determines the outcomes ...

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is out now, but it can't avoid the larger conversation surrounding ZA/UM and Disco Elysium.

For Dead Spies stumbles into imitation at times, it's still an excellent and richly detailed RPG in its own right.

Developer ZA/UM may have had a significant hit with 2019’s Disco Elysium, but it remains a reasonably small studio. And, at least as far as writer and VO director Jim Ashilevi is concerned, that’s how ...