Games like ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies
If ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glasshouse, Esoteric Ebb and MoonShot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, developed and published by ZA/UM and slated for 2026, is a story-rich CRPG that drops players into a tense world of espionage and conspiracy. Built around a customizable protagonist, choices that matter and an open world to investigate, it foregrounds conversation and consequence over action. Tagged as a thriller with conspiracy and choice-driven themes, it spans indie and RPG genres and holds an 82% positive rating across 1,508 Steam reviews. The game sells for 39.99 USD and is listed as unsupported on Steam Deck. A narrative-led single-player role-playing game centered on dialogue, investigation and the decisions that shape its outcome, for players who favor writing and branching choice over combat, with a female protagonist at its center.
About ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies: From the creators of Disco Elysium comes ZERO PARADES – an espionage RPG. You're a brilliant but tormented operant on one final desperate assignment. Gather your broken network, untangle a web of lies, and prove yourself on the world stage - or blow it all up again.
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Glasshouse
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Top pick for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Feudalpunk CRPG, with Turn-based combat, set in a lockdown apartment block at the dawn of a world war. Investigate the mysterious triple murder next door, fight the Political Conspiracy, and make terrible choices before the flatmates do it for you!
RPGSteam ↗Esoteric Ebb
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Shares an atmospheric mood with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Second-strongest match for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
MoonShot
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Third-strongest match for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Sovereign Syndicate
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Shares an atmospheric mood with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Ranked #4 for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
Unrest
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Ranked #5 for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
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Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Ranked #6 for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Bad Government
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Ranked #7 for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Manage your resources and navigate the shifting sentiment of the population in this decision-based resource management game. Gain power to unlock more individuals, adding complexity as you progress. How long can you maintain balance?
Sector Unknown
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Shares turn based combat, branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Ranked #8 for ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Sector Unknown is a solo-developed, isometric sci-fi RPG set in a shadowy expanse of space. Begin on a desolate planet, establish a stronghold, explore space, ally with or dominate local factions, and combat a despotic organization set on ruthlessly exploiting the sector's resources and inhabitants.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~75% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~88% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies
- How much does ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies cost?
- ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies are Glasshouse, Esoteric Ebb, MoonShot.
- Who developed ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies?
- ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies was developed by ZA/UM.
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