20 Most Anticipated Video Games Of 2026

3. Zero Parades: For Dead Spies

2026 Video Game Releases
ZA/UM

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies Release Date: TBD, 2026

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is the upcoming spiritual successor to ZA/UM's iconic 2019 RPG Disco Elysium, and while it adopts the same art style and gameplay loop, the narrative will trade cops for spies.

Players will control Hershel Wilk, a spy who is haunted by a botched job five years prior, and who attempts to rebuild their network of comrades for a new mission.

From what little we've seen so far, Zero Parades looks every bit as dense, literary, and enchantingly weird as Disco Elysium, and though its predecessor casts a massive shadow of expectation, it's easy to be optimistic about this follow-up living up to it.

For anyone in the market for a thinking person's RPG that's by turns visceral, cerebral, and also bewilderingly funny, this should be just the ticket. 

If this isn't a major Game of the Year contender next year, something's gone horribly, horribly wrong.

 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes). General video game, TV and film nut. Occasional sports fan. Full time loon.