ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies Complete Walkthrough

ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is an espionage thriller RPG developed and published by ZA/UM. The story takes place in the fictional city-state of Portofiro. The player takes on the role of operant Hershel Wilk, who must complete a difficult assignment tied to restoring a shattered intelligence network and untangling a layered web of intrigue. In this guide, we will explain how to complete ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, where to find key items, how to finish story quests, and which checks you should keep in mind during the walkthrough.

Before starting ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, you need to choose a class, distribute your stats, and carefully inspect Pseudopod's apartment. Even in the opening scene, you can get your first items, experience, and leads for the assignment, so do not rush out of the room.

After choosing one of the heroine's four classes, Kinetic, Charismatic, Analytic, or custom, press Next and move on to stat distribution. In this walkthrough, we will choose the Charismatic class with improved Sensorics, Blueprints, and Poetics.

After listening to the first dialogue with Pseudopod, the heroine's Anxiety will increase by five points. Your answers cannot change this, so calmly go through the dialogue until you gain control of the character. In the room, you need to inspect four points:

Next, physically walk up to the man and open the interaction menu. Check his pulse, search him for clues, and finally go through his pockets. You need to examine the scrap of paper and the business card. Inspecting the paper adds the Sock Order item to your inventory and gives you five experience points. Examining the business card gives you the Sensual Business Card item and another five experience points.

If you eat the candy, the heroine will gain one point of Fatigue, so be careful. Over the course of the conversation, Anxiety will rise to ten. With a high Party Will skill and enough luck, you can try to force Pseudopod back into service, but even with a perfect result, the man will not say a word. At the end, choose I will do what I can for you, Pseudopod.

After that, inspect the red folder on the countertop. With high Composure, Wilk can learn more about herself. Next, go to the player near Pseudopod. Check the device and receive five experience points. Press Eject and take the mysterious red disc. If you try to play the melody again, Cascade's Delusion stat will increase.

After inspecting one of the two items, the phone on the right wall will ring. Walk up to it and speak with Melita. Report the doppelganger's nullification, tell her about the business card and the other things found on him. With a high Ratio value, you can learn why Cascade was sent on this mission. At the end, hang up and receive the quest Unfinished Assignment.

Before leaving the apartment, go into the bathroom and examine the pants hanging on the rail. Inspect the pocket twice to get one half of the cipher.

After that, search the desk again and inspect the cigarettes in one of the drawers to find the second half of the cipher and get five experience points. Take the cigarettes and pass the Backstage check. If successful, you will receive ten experience points and the message Everything will be forgiven Cascade. Fatigue will decrease by one, and the Unassigned Assignment journal entry will update.

The photo studio is the first important location after Pseudopod's apartment. Here, you can get useful tools, learn more about the sensual business card, unlock the way to the Fogged Glass bar, and pick up a task to repair the fax machine.

Leave through the door, inspect the information board, and go down the stairs to the first floor. Help the woman deal with the strange man by asking him to leave. After that, you will get a chance to test your luck in a check.

Look at the woman and ask her who that man was. As a reward, you will receive two items: Screwdriver and Filler's Toolkit. After that, you will gain five experience points, and the task will update: Cascade must fix the fax machine at the woman's request. In the final dialogue, you will have the option to deceive the owner to get additional information. Talk to her again and tell her about the situation with Pseudopod.

Show her the mysterious red disc. First ask about the band that recorded it, then ask about the man's condition. She will suggest bringing him downstairs. You should advise her to find a doctor. After that, the task will update and you will receive additional experience.

After learning about the Bazaar, ask the owner to identify the Sensual Business Card you got from Pseudopod. Choose Do you flirt yourself, Constance? and, after receiving the answer Not during working hours, Cascade will learn about the Fogged Glass bar in Party Alley.

Go through the remaining answer options and regain control of the character. In the photo studio, you can inspect:

Walk up to the TV hanging near the ceiling and watch the program Reality As It Is. Write down the phone number and receive extra experience.

Go to the fax machine, remove the top panel, and try to pass the Technoflex check. If you choose the forceful option, Cascade's Delusion will increase by five points. After passing the check, the same stat will decrease by two, ten experience points will be added, and you will receive one skill point for leveling up.

You now have three places you can go: the Bazaar, the Backstreets, and Party Alley. You can learn the location of each district from the photo studio owner or by using the map. It opens with the M key.

At the Black Market in ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, you can find new characters, pick up side quests, buy useful items, and move forward with the Pseudopod investigation. It is better to explore the market gradually, because some routes and crates will become available only after you get the right tools.

Click the doormat in front of the door to leave the building and reach Party Alley. Right next to the door, inspect the trash bin to get a bottle of OXEN Bock Beer. Walk a little to the right and inspect the window with the railing.

Now the heroine's path leads to the Black Market. To reach it, go down the path on the right, keep moving downward, and when you see the red phone booth, turn left. Once you reach the market, a marker will appear above Cascade. Read it to receive five experience points.

In this location, first go down and descend the stairs on the left. Talk to the woman sitting in the chair. Ask her about the tape, then ask about the aerial pervert on the tower. This will unlock a new task: Showdown with the Aerial Pervert.

After receiving the mission of the same name in your journal, return to the Bazaar entrance, go around the central plush toy shop, and enter the corridor in the upper-left area. Keep walking left, then go down the painted stairs.

After that, follow the path downward and jump over the boat to the other side. Continue down the pier and find the tall ladder. There will be a crate nearby that requires a crowbar to open. We will return to it later. Start climbing the ladder to reach the upper platform.

Here, you can inspect the ladder itself, the railing on the left, and the colorful crate on the right. Walk up to the crate and take the Bolt Cutter and a can of Jefa: Red and Black coffee from inside.

After collecting the resources, talk to the man and choose Some Bazaar regulars feel uneasy about you being up here. After a few lines, the task will update and you will receive five experience points. Then ask the man about his work, choose I do not see any work being done here, and then What's wrong with the route?. Several entries will appear in the journal.

At the end, you can try to pass a Ratio check. If you fail, Delusion will increase by one. Take a deep breath to reduce Fatigue. After the conversation, the man will ask you to remove a ball near the fire exit in the northern part of the Bazaar.

Before doing that, return to the clothing seller and tell her what you learned. For a shortcut, you can pass the Brotherhood check and open the gate with the Bolt Cutter to the right of the boat. This gives you fifteen experience points and reduces Fatigue by one. In a nearby crate, you will also find a pair of elegant black gloves.

After talking to the woman, you will finish the task and receive forty experience points, one skill point, and cool gloves for teens as a reward. After that, choose You were going to tell me something about your colleague from the Superbloc in the dialogue. This will update the Unfinished Business mission data and give you five experience points.

Now head to the door in the upper part of the Bazaar. Interact with it, see where it leads, and squeeze inside. Upstairs, you will find an electrical panel, but the heroine does not know its password yet.

Go back, take the ball, and close the door. The item Flattened Pelota Ball will be added to your inventory. Climb back up to the man, tell him about the favor you did, and learn about the stalker from him. Then ask about interesting things he has seen and add the ghost ship entry to your journal, receiving five experience points.

Return to the Bazaar entrance and approach the red phone box. Inspect it and examine the dolphin emblem twice. This will reduce Anxiety by three. Call Subpacket, spending two Salt, and ask him about the houseboat.

After that, go upstairs and talk to the Black man near the stairs. Tell him that the Ninth Line is closed and will not launch, receiving ten experience points.

The Fogged Glass bar is tied to the Sensual Business Card and the further investigation into Pseudopod's condition. Here, you can speak with the doctor, receive a new thought, learn more about the clues, and earn Salt by helping the bartender.

Now go to the photo studio and turn left. Walk past a couple of people and find the entrance to the Fogged Glass bar near the stairs. Go inside and reduce Fatigue by one. Inspect several markers inside the bar, then talk to the doctor sitting at the table on the left.

The man clearly knows the heroine's identity, which increases her Fatigue by one. In the dialogue, you can try to hide who you really are, but the chances are not very high. Talk to the man, ask about his past, and then receive the thought Search for the One.

Choose What makes you think I am neck-deep in shit?. This will open a list of options that lets you learn a lot of additional information about the clues you found. Ask the Heartless One about each item and about Pseudopod. Return to the bar, go up to the second floor, and take the Wisnia on-tour schnapps from the table.

Talk to the bartender, tell her you came to fix the mistakes of the past, and ask for a cup of coffee. This will reduce Fatigue by five and increase Anxiety by three. After that, show her the Sensual Business Card with the phone number.

At the end of the conversation, ask the woman about the number of people in the bar, sympathize with her situation, and offer your help. Choose Do not ask questions. You need a second helper. I need money. and start cleaning the place. Four in-game hours will pass and Anxiety will increase by five, but Lucia will reward you with twenty Salt and ten experience points.

Gonza Clinic is required to continue Pseudopod's task. In this part of the walkthrough, you will get the crowbar, deal with the doctor's request, learn more about LASS, and take the medical patch needed to check your partner's condition.

Leave the bar, climb to the upper platform, and go right. Head up the stairs, choose the path on the right, and enter the red door under the green sign marked Gonza. Inside, you will find a man with a noose around his neck.

Talk to him and receive the Crowbar tool along with a task to get a tooth. Now leave the room and walk up to the teenager near the table. Ask him about the doctor and request proof of his innocence. At the end, you will get a chance to test your coordination and pull out Marco's tooth.

After taking the trophy, return to the doctor and present the proof. The task What's Wrong, Pseudopod? will update, and you will receive twenty experience points. Tell him about your colleague's condition and show him the strange red disc. The doctor will tell the heroine about LASS, and you will receive another twenty experience points. After that, take out the Sensual Business Card, choose Okay. So he is chronically impotent now. Is there any way to help him?, and take the medical patch.

Before testing the patch on Pseudopod, use your new money to go downstairs and take the garlands from the wall. After that, return to the entrance to the Black Market, specifically to the phone booth. From there, turn right and go down. At the fork, turn right again and talk to the man in the blue jacket and red hat. He introduces himself as Goat-Eyes and offers several goods if you choose What kind of services do you offer? in the dialogue.

The Lockpick in ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is useful for secret passages, locked doors, and extra crates. It is better to buy it as soon as you have the money, so you do not have to return to areas you have already explored later.

Make sure to buy the Lockpick for thirty Salt, since it can open many secret passages and crates in the game. Use the tool on the truck door to the right of Goat-Eyes and take the Ushanka.

Now go up to the second floor of the photo studio and use the patch on Pseudopod, equipping the garland for an additional Sensorics modifier. The medicine does not help, so return to the doctor and ask him about possible reasons for the failure. Go through all answer options for extra experience, and finally ask whether he can give you another copy of the drug.

In response, Gonza asks the heroine to prove her intentions by retrieving certain personal belongings from a "charlatan": Dr. Hugo Abe. Accept the request and receive the new task Retrieve Dr. Gonza's Personal Effects.