Jason Schreier

I loved Disco Elysium and played it thanks to your review a while ago.

However, I'm confused what the deal is with their new game.

And is this made by the same team or not?

It's all very unclear.

So their new game, Zero Parades, is out this week.

So I thought this was fitting to kind of talk about this.

Have either of you played it?

I haven't really played much.

No, I will be playing it, though there's a lot of good games happening right now, but that's super at the top of my list.

It's a real cluster.

Well, maybe we'll talk about it once one of us or multiple of us have actually had a chance to play it.

But what exactly happened with Zaun?

This one is intractable.

A question for the ages.

I mean, I guess the short version is that a bunch of the studio's kind of core creative team left and have since founded like five different spiritual successors all making different Disco Elysium style games.

And there are lawsuits and legal battles between the core creative team and the studio.

The core creative team has thrown all sorts of allegations of fraud.

fraud and stealing theft at the people who own Zaum.

And at the same time, there have also been allegations from people who worked at Zaum of toxic leadership and kind of creating really negative environments from the core creative team that has left.

I think that sums it up.