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About This Game

A spy like no other 

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.

Espionage, Told as cRPG

Fulfil the demands of your assignment by hunting down secrets hidden within the architecture of both the city and the human mind. Collaborate and clash with informants, loyalists, and agitators. Pass skill checks to get them to open up and improve your abilities with the experience you receive. The choices you make affect everything: the loyalty of your friends, the paths you can take, and the fragility of your mind.

Dramatic Encounters: Time Freezes, Fate Rolls

Pull on your skills to gain the upper hand in unexpected confrontations with your antagonists. Tactical View pauses time so you can assess your moves and even peek forward in time, as you clash across the urban stage. Encounter what you’re capable of. Encounter your targets... or become theirs. The dice decide your fate but a bad roll isn’t always the end – though it will definitely hurt.

Conditioning: Turn Your Thoughts Into Weapons

Operants go through years of training to learn how to hone their minds into a weapon. Conditioning lets you reinforce Hershel’s thoughts to shape her identity and unlock new ways forward. It’s our snappier successor to Disco Elysium’s Thought Cabinet, you are not only investigating the past, you are shaping the future.

Pressures & Exertion: Push until someone breaks

Pressures simulate the physical and psychological toll of being an operant. Balance your Fatigue, Anxiety, and Delirium – or face the deadly consequences. Pressures increase during stressful situations but you can also choose to Exert them to roll the dice with advantage – just remember that you’re gambling with life.

Welcome to the End of History

Find yourself thrown into a three-way struggle for cultural and ideological power, played out across an unforgettable new city. In ZERO PARADES, the world itself is a character with its own secrets, traumas, and miracles for you to discover.

Trust is a volatile plaything

To get anywhere in this world, you'll need friends. Unfortunately, you don't have any. Instead, 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.

Make it up as you go along

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. As an operant, your dice are in the hand of fate. If they don't go your way (and they won't), you'll have to improvise and hope the consequences are ones you can live with.

Key Features:

• Dramatic Encounters: Pause time in Tactical View and pull on your skills to improvise the impossible: evade threats, turn the tables on your adversaries, or leap into the unknown. The dice may betray you, but failure always leaves scars.

• Exert: Burn through your Fatigue, Anxiety, and Delirium to force the dice in your favor. Exertion gives you an edge when you need it most.

• Conditioning: Apply operant training to turn moments of thought into quiet shifts in behavior, identity, and fate.

• Become an Anti-Icon: Play as Hershel - brilliant, relentless, magnetic… and cursed. A former top operant whose touch turns everything to ash. She is as dangerous to her enemies as she is to her friends. 

• Espionage Reinvented: Descend into a world of bootleg mind-erasure, failed space programmes, and state-sponsored pop stars. This is espionage stripped of glamour - no parades, no happy endings - at least probably not for you.

• Failing Forward: In the life of an operant, failure is inevitable. Here, it’s another way forward - every misstep opens doors that success would run swiftly by.  

• A Story-Rich Espionage RPG: From the studio which brought you Disco Elysium. Blending the psychological depth of a spy novel with surrealist undertones and richly drawn characters. 

• A Question of Identity: Who are you when no one is watching? Or, at least, when you *think* no one is? In ZERO PARADES, the answer will define much more than just the assignment. Cope with the terror of reality by giving up parts of yourself and try not to lose your mind in the process.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game contains violent acts including killing, references to sexual activity and use of illegal substances.