
SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.
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SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by human mining operations. The story unfolds deep in space, inside a colossal asteroid being torn apart for its resources by human colonists.

The miners were too greedy. They dug too deep and, within the asteroid’s core, uncovered something they were never meant to find — an ancient hive-mind entity known as The Corruption. Awakened from its eternal slumber, it begins to spread through the station’s systems, its dark tendrils twisting metal, machinery, and minds alike.

Countless lasers, turrets, and automated defenses stand in your way. Your only advantage lies in your ability to corrupt and control human technology, turning their own creations against them. Harness this power to overcome platforming challenges and solve intricate, physics-based puzzles.

But even as The Corruption spreads, isolated sectors remain under human control, sealed off, fortified, and defiant. It’s up to you to adapt, infiltrate, and finish what humanity began when they invaded your domain.
1-hour story with 2 extra hours of secrets and achievements.
Become the monster. Jump, climb, and crawl through detailed, hand-crafted environments.
Evade lasers, outsmart turrets, and sneak past your enemies.
Corrupt human-made technology and use it to your advantage.
Interact with your surroundings using fully physics-driven interactions.
Controller & Steam Deck supported.
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Languages: English*, Norwegian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian +18 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
extremely fun but a bit short.
This is a hesitant recommend for me. The visual style is immediately obviously different from most games, which is what originally drew me in, and the music is great! The game is ostensibly a puzzle game, but at least for me all of the puzzles were very straightforward. I don't consider myself particularly great at puzzle games, but I don't think there was a single puzzle where I didn't see the "solution" immediately. Also, the story as presented on the Steam page sounds really interesting, but I don't feel that it's explored very much in the actual game. I'm no stranger to esoteric indie stories where you really have to dig deep to figure out what's going on, but the Steam page explains some things I don't remember being touched on in the game even in passing. This all being said, it definitely is worth the hour it takes to beat, and I'm looking forward to the next game in the series (Artificial) whenever that drops.
Fun little puzzle game with great tidbits that really make it a nice package. The artstyle and world design are both great. Making the world mostly grayscale was a great choice for the whole corrupting the station objective we're carrying out which is probably tied into the (yet to be released) main game "Artificial". As simple as the gameplay is, it doesn't overstay it's welcome and new modules keep it fresh throughout the game's runtime. I enjoyed the small challenges that were introduced with Achievements, all of them were fun to get through, and I recommend everyone to try to do them all yourself. Also bonus points to the dev for implementing the achievements in the game itself, lovely stuff. Despite being a tiny game, the amount of polish surprised me and the narrative made me want to learn more about this world (or asteroid, I guess would be more accurate). So overall, the game fulfilled it's purpose of selling me the main game :P
Pretty cool short platformer.
Короткая примитивная игра с душевными ачивками.
Très sympa pour un petit jeu d'ambiance.
Gordo
I liked it because, it is a nice relaxing puzzle game and the story is chill and good.
Pěkná a propracovaná hra. Ideální na relax
Está wapo. Un juego decente de parkour con una historia normalita y referencias divertidas. Merece la pena.
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