
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.13/day in the week to Jul 21 → 1.4/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Humanity emerges, hesitantly, into ruination. Almost nothing is left of the world as we knew it—settlements, forests, seas, mountains—all have been blasted into unfamiliarity. Horribly mutated animals hunt in packs through deformed woodland. Decrepit military robots stumble unknowingly through the ruins, sensors and logic centres blown. Alien soldiers, once impossibly powerful, cower in the wrecks of their ships, praying to heedless gods for rescue.
Control the survivors of humanity in a near-future apocalypse of alien origin. Pick a path between the indifferent abominations of the Voice and the uncaring automata of ZEPHON, with city management, turn-based tactical combat, unholy research, diplomatic maneuvering, and branching narrative quests. Gather your allies and pick your actions wisely.
On the planet Earth, that was once a cradle of life, the extinction of humanity is at hand.
What will you do to survive?
Intense turn-based survival strategy in both single and multiplayer.
Command over 50 unique units in battle—each with its own graphics, voice overs, weapon systems and sets of traits and abilities.
Plan out optimal build orders amongst 3 asymmetric paths—Human, Voice and Cyber—or combine them in surprising ways.
Deploy tactical operations—interference protocols, otherworldly hymns of decay and even nuclear weapons—to gain an advantage.
Combat occurs on the main map—no switching modes and having to auto-resolve battles because they drag on too long.
Use distinctive leader abilities in fully-featured multiplayer—with or against your friends.
Take your settlements from scrappy bases to sprawling metropolises as your faction expands its sphere of influence.
Find and grow your cities by constructing buildings on tiles—everything you build needs space.
Optimize an empire-wide economy with 11 tiered resources—allowing you to specialize cities by their placement.
Recognize each building by its appearance—3 architecture styles to accompany your chosen path.
Fortify key strategic points to prevent enemies from assailing your positions—sometimes defense is the best defense.
Traverse the unfamiliarity of the destroyed Earth and unveil its deadly new secrets.
Discover dozens of terrain features and phenomena spread across 6 climates—flesh trees, microchip factories, traveling sandstorms, erupting volcanoes and much more.
Tune the generation of a new post-apocalyptic game world—cliffsides, ruins and deformed woodland occupied by violent wildlife and expanding NPCs acting out their own agendas.
Exterminate packs of mutated animals to collect caches full of rewards, capture outposts and expand your reach—one turn at a time.
As mankind strives to catch up to the new masters of the Earth, you’ll make strange new discoveries that could be just what you need to survive.
Unlock over 150 technologies spread across 10 tiers—units, buildings, operations, weapons, abilities and passive bonuses.
Advance from post-apocalyptic survivalism—through a blend of magic and cyberpunk aesthetics—before achieving transhuman transcendence.
Observe each unit upgrade visualized on the model—outfit regular, large and titanic units with cruise missiles, tunneling nails, deflector shields, and much more.
Read exact modifier numbers in tooltips and the easy-to-browse in-game compendium—so you don’t have to scour the internet for information.
Diplomatic negotiations are key to staving off defeat—but your opponents are watching your actions and reacting.
Roleplay with AI-controlled opponents through diplomatic encounters—each AI comes with their own likes and dislikes based on their character.
Establish peace, trading agreements and alliances—or use your influence to antagonize your friends towards each other.
Choose sides—ZEPHON, Acrin and Reaver non-player factions permeate the world and need to be contended with.
As the clash between ZEPHON and the Acrin continues, your choice of Leader and path will determine who survives in the wreckage of Earth.
Steer your empire through multistage, branching, unexpected events—nightmares, cries for help and economic crashes all have to be dealt with.
Dive into your chosen leader’s backstory through their unique quest chain—complete it to unlock a permanent reward.
Play a key part in determining if humanity, machines or horrors prevail—the clash between ZEPHON and Acrin continues across the planet.
Resolve the prophecy that has brought the Acrin to Earth to unlock new game modifiers—all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
“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
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Reviews
Doesn't want to load, slower than molasses....
Honestly, there's very little strategy other than a bit of resource managing. Not very engaging, once you figure out the optimal path for each civ (there are 3 and they're pretty obvious) you're good. Just keep pumping out units.
Great music, great ambiance, great writing. The combat is a little weird at first, "Why can't I stack units?" Well, as a long time Age of Wonders and Endless Space/Legends fan, I wondered the same thing. But after getting to the end game twice, I get it now. Each unit has a role, and the combat is actually pretty good. Much more captivating than Gladius, this seems like the game they wanted to make, and I wish them all the luck in expanding this universe, every game feels narrative and believable. Highly recommend higher difficulties for a more masochistic experience. Also, mega props to the devs. I was crashing a ton at first, but after reporting it on the discord, they were trying bug fixes daily. Fast turnaround, much respect.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Korean, Russian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Hours played at review time, across 119 reviews with recorded playtime.
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AI cheats insanely bad even on normal and is super aggro against the player. Not to mention the entire game is a slog fest taking 4 turns alone just to produce the basic garbage unit at the beginning of the game.
Its fun so it achieves the goal of a game but its not excellent. Maybe 7 or 6 out of 10. It contains subtle political 'messaging', overall the whole atmosphere has little bits of pieces of it. This is very tired by this point which really does give it a shadow which will taint it to me. Repeats voice lines a lot which becomes tired and can easily have you wanting to mute them... Its very aggro for a 4X which... I like it has an 'arcade' like feel to play which is honestly quite enjoyable, although the whole 'hero' units with items and stuff gets a bit to much in my opinion considering the scale of forces can be present. Some of the abilities are very meh. The research tree is a bit messy. It would be a lot better if 'non category' research was also toggable rather then the 3 'types' only, that way you can check through categories quicker. There is numerous small things like engineers have to build roads 1 by 1? Really? The fact after you move an engineer you can build a road with it to, but after moving it deselects it and selects a different unit after you move it is quite annoying. Another thing is how weird it gets with multiple cities and loyalty/population, while I understand there has to be some limitation for expansion, the current version of it of building a quarter or even half a city of entertainment districts is... a bit off.
A very combat focused 4x with the look of something like Alpha Centauri (Civ in space). The factions are unique, the tech tree and unit options are interesting. Well worth the money IMO.
Давно хотел написать отзыв, но все время откладывал. Игра для тех - кто любит стратегии в мрачном сеттинге, игра зайдет. Интересные задания как сюжетные так и вторичные не хуже! очень интересно читать их! Будто настоящий писатель создавал их.... Фракции ощутимо отличаются друг от друга, много юнитов боевых. Персонажи уникальны, каждый со своей историей, и сильно отличающимися баффами. В целом полноценная стратегия, с интересной дипломатией. Годно!
Lovely setting, magnificent gameplay. The A.I. is competent, the diplomatic system is good and not too complicated given that the focus is on combat. It's Gladius but better in every way! Only downside for those of us running older machines (like me), is that it runs a LOT slower. Would gladly reduce graphics settings further because it looks too sweet for my graphics card to handle, but the devs probably figured nobody would still be running NVidea 1030 in 2026 haha.
Купил с друзьями, лобби на 4х человек - у 2х вылетает стабильно. Причем у 2х рандомных людей. Как будто игра багается и не пускает больше. сделали возврат, жаль потраченого времени
A very good 4X (explore-expand-exploit-exterminate) strategy game, with a heavy focus on combat and warfare. The "story" and lore is however not that interesting (in my opinion), but the gameplay is quite solid, and that is the most important bit in a game. This game has also quicker than what I'm used to from a 4X strategy game, (I'm a "Civilization-junkie"). The faster speed is a bit refreshing (to me), and when the game is more focused towards warfare and conquest it's better that the game speed is faster.
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