Disco Elysium was one of 2019’s best indie games, and from what we’ve seen so far, it looks like ZA/UM’s follow-up Zero Parades is going to continue the studio’s penchant for text-based gameplay, story-driven narratives, and an oil painting art style.

In the years since Disco Elysium’s release, ZA/UM has suffered from a string of internal controversies, and for a while it felt as though the future of the studio was in jeopardy as a result of this.

This occurred in late 2021, when Disco Elysium’s lead writer and designer Robert Kurvitz was pushed out of the company along with art lead Aleksander Rostov and writer Helen Hindpere.

They claimed that the new majority stakeholders in the company had acquired it in a fraudulent way, whereas ZA/UM’s new CEO Ilmar Kompus claimed that Kurvitz and

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