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The Latest Breaking News from Disco Elysium

Over 30 developers fired from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM despite ZERO PARADES rave reviews

ZA/UM was always going to struggle to regain lost trust.

Destructoid · Jul 18

Controversial Disco Elysium studio plans 32 layoffs after latest RPG's underwhelming "commercial performance": "Our artistic standards remain unchanged"

"We will persist"

GamesRadar · Jul 17

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is a masterful Disco Elysium successor

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is an excellent Disco Elysium successor that still establishes its own identity.

TechRadar · May 18

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Zero Parades, the spy game from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM, is coming in May

The Steam Next Fest demo is still up too—ZA/UM says it'll be available to play until April 13.

PC Gamer · Mar 31

Disco Elysium studio's new RPG Zero Parades is coming out in May, the developer's first release since several key creatives left the company

ZA/UM's extended the Steam demo to celebrate

GamesRadar · Mar 31

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'

Cops are out, spies are in.

PC Gamer · Mar 27

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'

Disco Elysium was one-of-a-kind when it came out in 2019, but that won't be the case for ZA/UM's upcoming Zero Parades.

PC Gamer · Mar 13

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The Disco Elysium studio's next game just got a free demo — here's where to play it

A new Zero Parades: For Dead Spies demo has dropped months ahead of the game's release.

TechRadar · Feb 23

The new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce

It ain't never gonna be what it was.

PC Gamer · Feb 19

Disco Elysium had so much text it broke the branching narrative software: 'we were writing too much'

"Oh no, no one else writes things that long!"

PC Gamer · Jan 15

The Decade's Finest RPG Is Now A Fashion House Serving Looks

What drew me to Disco Elysium from the start was the fashion, when I saw someone wearing that very jacket. That was also the start of studio ZA/UM’s fashion-forward Atelier, headed by Kristiina Ago.

Inverse · Dec 29, 2025

Rue Valley is a time looping RPG that's best off leaning away from Disco Elysium comparisons, and getting Monkey Island with it instead

Indie Spotlight | Can you escape the valley?

GamesRadar · Nov 21, 2025

Rue Valley review

Narrative time loop RPG Rue Valley fails to do anything with its potent metaphor for depression.

PC Gamer · Nov 12, 2025

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'

The Workers' Alliance at ZA/UM was organized through the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain.

PC Gamer · Oct 2, 2025

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PC Gamer · Sep 30, 2025

Summer Eternal, one of the most exciting studios to come out of the Disco Elysium fallout, will announce its first game exclusively through 'the analog medium' of a vinyl record and a book of art, essays, and dev diaries

It looks sick.

PC Gamer · Sep 24, 2025

We finally saw ZA/UM's Zero Parades in action and even though it's extremely Disco Elysium, the protagonist couldn't be more different

It still can't shake the Disco Elysium comparisons though.

GamesRadar · Sep 18, 2025

The Disco Elysium spiritual successor rivalry gets even more confusing as one of the studios made of former ZA/UM devs change their new RPG's name and gameplay style

XXX Nightshift is now Tangerine Antarctic

PC Gamer · Sep 18, 2025

Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift is sick of your jokes about its name, announces it's called Tangerine Antarctic and it's a 3rd-person RPG now

Sure. Why not?

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PC Gamer · Aug 24, 2025

Even in a year packed with great RPGs, you don't want to miss Disco Elysium-style time loop noir Rue Valley, which has a new trailer and a release date in November

Rue Valley looks like a winner.

GamesRadar · Aug 21, 2025

I'm relieved to see the Disco Elysium successor is just as strange and dark – I've had my fill of fantasy RPGs for the year

Opinion | There's more to RPGs than high fantasy – who knew?

GamesRadar · Aug 19, 2025

The new CRPG from the Disco Elysium studio actually looks kind of cool, but after a biblically messy breakup with the original devs it's hard to get invested

Is it too soon to hope?

GamesRadar · Jun 27, 2025

I've spent six hours exploring the Steam Summer Sale with our Games Editor, and these are the 10 best games on discount I'd recommend so far

Here's a list of the best Steam Summer Sale games of 2025 to pick up first

PC Gamer · May 9, 2025

The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns.

GamesRadar · Apr 23, 2025

Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals "key design tenet" mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: "Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful"

Interview with the designer of Disco Elysium's free tabletop RPG spiritual successor

PC Gamer · Apr 2, 2025

Details about the canceled Disco Elysium spin-off codenamed X7 have leaked, and it would have let us play as Cuno and Cunoesse

It's not an April Fool's joke, but you'll wish it was.

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