Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'

Kim Kitsuragi.

While Zero Parades, this year's RPG from ZA/UM, is following in Disco Elysium's footsteps in some obvious ways, the similarities could've been even more pronounced than the spy thriller that the team ultimately settled on. Early in development, principle writer Siim Sinamäe told PC Gamer, the plot of Zero Parades was focused more on the game world's fictional equivalent of the real-life International Money Fund, leading to ideas that "essentially felt like police stories."

They decided they needed to do something different.