ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies

• A NEW DRAMATIC ENCOUNTER, THE QUISACH ROUNDABOUT. Hershel and Ramses attempt the deceptively difficult task of exiting a roundabout while extremely high. Miss the exit and a simple drive home descends into dangerous and potentially existential territory.
• NEW SCENES, DEEPER RELATIONSHIPS. Nearly 40,000 words of new material give you more ways to build bonds with your friend and foe alike, find alternative ways to solve challenges, and delve deeper into your own embattled psyche.
• BACKSTAGE MODE. Walk through earlier iterations of selected levels and see how the environments of ZERO PARADES evolved, with technical breakdowns, creative inspirations, cut content and stories narrated by the game’s Art Director.
• COMPLETED AND REVISED ENGLISH VOICE-OVER. Including a newly recorded opening alongside extensive audio revisions and fixes throughout the game.
• MORE OF PORTOFIRO. New clothing, Reverie portraits, pedestrians, death screens and further visual and atmospheric additions.
• QUALITY OF LIFE AND ACCESSIBILITY. Ultrawide support for 21:9 and 32:9 displays, inventory sorting, controller remapping and a new Photosensitivity Mode, alongside the broader refinements introduced since launch.

• MAKE IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG. Develop your espionage toolkit, carve your own path through a tangle of political intrigue with 15 unique skills. There’s always another way, if you’re willing to take it.
• CHANGE YOUR MIND. Reorder your innermost thoughts to become the operant you want to be. Conditioning effects don’t just change your character, they can change the rules of the game itself.
• SPLIT-SECOND DECISIONS. Improvise your way through tense encounters with your enemies and rivals, with lasting consequences for you and your assignment.
• OPERANT UNDER PRESSURE. Push yourself to your physical and mental limits to force the dice in your favour. Push too far, and you may leave lasting damage.

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.

Uncover secrets hidden in the lost corners of the city and within your own mind. Navigate a murky world of potential informants and adversaries. Pass skill checks to uncover their true motivations through subterfuge, violence, or deduction. As an operant, there are multiple ways to approach every problem – your choices and methods will be your own, and so will the consequences.

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

Operants subject themselves to years of psychological training to hone their minds into their greatest weapons. Do you favor animal-like reflexes, a philosophical approach, or a different cover story for every occasion? Through Conditioning, you’ll turn the deepest aspects of Hershel’s identity into potent abilities and unlock new paths forward. You can even change the rules of the game itself.

Pressures simulate the physical and psychological toll of being in-theatre. Exertion pushes dice rolls in your favour – just remember that you’re gambling with your life. Keep your Fatigue, Anxiety, and Delirium in check or deal with the long-term repercussions.

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. If the dice don’t go your way (and they won’t) you’ll have to improvise and hope the consequences are ones you can live with.