ZEPHON v07.05.2025

ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game where humanity fights for survival against alien horrors and rogue machines on a ruined Earth. Once-familiar landscapes—cities, forests, oceans—have been twisted beyond recognition. Mutated beasts roam deformed woodlands, derelict warbots wander their last orders, and broken alien invaders cower in starship wreckage. As one of the last survivors, you must choose your path between the cosmic abominations of the Voice and the relentless automatons of ZEPHON, building a new future through city management, tactical combat, eldritch research, diplomatic intrigue and branching story arcs.

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Key Features

BATTLE
• Intense turn-based survival strategy for single and multiplayer engagements.
• Command over 50 unique unit types, each with custom artwork, voice-overs, weapons and special abilities.
• Three fully asymmetric tech paths—Human, Voice and Cyber—and limitless hybrid combinations.
• Deploy powerful operations like interference protocols, hymns of decay or even nuclear strikes.
• All combat plays out directly on the campaign map—no separate battle mode or auto-resolve.
• Unique leader abilities let you customize multiplayer matches with friends or rivals.

BUILD
• Grow settlements from scrappy outposts into sprawling metropolises on a hex-tile map.
• Manage an empire-wide economy with 11 tiered resources, specializing cities based on location.
• Three distinct architectural styles reflect your chosen faction’s aesthetics.
• Fortify choke points and defend strategic positions to deny enemy advances.

EXPLORE
• Traverse six radically different post-ruin climates full of flesh trees, microchip factories, sandstorms, volcanoes and more.
• Customize world generation—cliffs, ruined cities, deformed forests and hostile NPC factions each with their own agendas.
• Hunt mutated animal packs for loot caches, capture outposts and expand your reach one turn at a time.

RESEARCH
• Uncover over 150 technologies across ten tiers—new units, buildings, operations, weapons, abilities and passive bonuses.
• Progress from gritty survivalism through a blend of magic and cyberpunk into full transhuman transcendence.
• Watch unit upgrades appear in real time—outfitting regular, large and titanic forces with missiles, tunneling drills or energy shields.
• Detailed tooltips and an in-game compendium mean you always know exact stats without searching online.

NEGOTIATE
• Engage AI opponents in rich diplomatic encounters—each personality reacts differently to your actions.
• Forge peace treaties, trade agreements and alliances, or manipulate rivals to turn on each other.
• Contend with powerful independent factions—ZEPHON, Acrin and Reaver—as they vie for control.

DECIDE
• Navigate branching, multi-stage events—from nightmarish visions to economic crises—with lasting consequences.
• Follow your chosen leader’s personal quest chain to unlock permanent rewards and reveal hidden lore.
• Determine the ultimate fate of humanity, machines or cosmic horrors in the war between ZEPHON and Acrin.
• Unravel the prophecy that brought the Acrin to Earth and unlock new game modifiers—because what’s happened once can happen again.

“What will you do to survive?”

“Open your eyes, singleton. You are not dreaming—you are the dream. The old world is dead, your old self is dead, so who are you now? We were the Meek, the Silent, and the Accomplice. Individually we were no one, together we are god itself. Woo us, fear us, worship us… these are all acceptable answers to the riddle of what you can do for us.”
— Furtive Tribunal