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Players in Game

1 098 😀 161 😒

82,87%

Rating

$39.99

ZEPHON Steam Charts & Stats

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?

App ID	1481170
App Type	GAME
Developers	Proxy Studios
Publishers	Proxy Studios
Categories	Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Remote Play Together, LAN Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, LAN PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Steam Workshop, Steam Workshop
Genres	Strategy, Simulation, RPG
Release Date	2024
Platforms	Windows, Linux
Supported Languages	French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, English, Korean, Polish, Italian

87 Players in Game

1 620 All-Time Peak

82,87 Rating

Steam Charts

87 Players in Game

1 620 All-Time Peak

82,87 Rating

At the moment, ZEPHON has 87 players actively in-game. This is 0% lower than its all-time peak of 1 027.

ZEPHON Player Count

ZEPHON monthly active players. This table represents the average number of players engaging with the game each month, providing insights into its ongoing popularity and player activity trends.

Month	Average Players	Change
2025-08	60	-14.73%
2025-07	70	-23.94%
2025-06	92	-32.27%
2025-05	136	+121.88%
2025-04	61	-19.69%
2025-03	76	-26.17%
2025-02	104	-41.81%
2025-01	178	-25.36%
2024-12	239	-61.1%
2024-11	615	0%

1 259 Total Reviews

1 098 Positive Reviews

161 Negative Reviews

Very Positive Score

ZEPHON has garnered a total of 1 259 reviews, with 1 098 positive reviews and 161 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Very Positive’ overall score.

Reviews Chart

Chart above illustrates the trend of feedback for ZEPHON over time, showcasing the dynamic changes in player opinions as new updates and features have been introduced. This visual representation helps to understand the game's reception and how it has evolved.

Recent Steam Reviews

This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback

Playtime: 1945 minutes

What a great little game! Gameplay-wise it's basically a more polished version of Gladius with nicer graphics, good voice-acting and great soundtrack. What really stands out to me though is the writing. It's super clever, always hints at the story background and creates so much atmosphere. One example: "Using a pistol was like palling up with the schoolyard bully. When your target is weak and helpless, they made you feel powerful. But the second you fought something with teeth, you realized what a shitty friend you'd made." And that's just the description for the pistol! Pretty rad imo

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 1

Positive

Playtime: 782 minutes

This game is not only VERY bare bones, but it's balance is kind of shit. But the most annoying thing? LOS. None of my units can see more than like 1 space out from themselves without an active ability. But the enemy AI seems to be able to see the entire map. So when playing, you are just constantly getting units ambushed and swarm killed in a single turn. You can't tactically respond to instant death. You can't retreat from an enemy you had no idea was there. You can't save a unit that died in a single turn from max health. I played for 13 hours, and will never launch this shit again. It's not worth $5, let alone fucking $40.

👍 : 8 | 😃 : 3

Negative

Playtime: 383 minutes

This game reminds me of Sword of Stars 2. Amazing mechanics, great lore and factions. The combat is great and overall the game is decent. In the same time, it lacks content or activities in general to sufficiently entertain the player. If it had a bit more things going on other than fighting neutrals and ai factions , I would call this game good. But it lacks gameplay diversity, like more missions or maybe some global events where you have to collect pearls or whatever. The pacing feels off and as a result, the game feels too monotonous by the modern standards. It is worth buying but I cannot call it a masterpiece. A decent game with vision and serious pacing issues due to the lack of resources as compared to bigger competitors

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 2

Positive

Playtime: 110 minutes

While I miss the WH40K license and feel the differences between leader/factions are now a bit more subtle, I really feel that this game is a further refinement of the mechanics introduced in Gladius. I also appreciate how now the devs are much more free to develop the game, no longer beholden to a game franchise that was never concerned with balancing the factions.

👍 : 0 | 😃 : 1

Positive

Playtime: 8423 minutes

An iterative upgrade of Gladius. The biggest addition is diplomacy that allows you to dynamically shape political map during the game. You decide on your faction by selecting a leader and each of them has one of the three paths as the default affinity (stay true to humanity or align with either AI or eldritch aliens called Voice). In theory you can research technologies from other affinities but in most plays you will want to focus on your main path and not slow its progress with other tech (unless there are things strategically very useful like medics from pure affinity combined with voice units). There is an end-game conflict that you can control on how quickly it progresses or even disable completely and “mutators” that change rules of the game for a given play. An interesting choice is the addition of 4 “neutral” factions. Apart from known from before “gray” enemies there are three NPC factions representing 3 main paths that start having quite significant control over the map. That means in a normal game map doesn’t need to be empty at the start as the warring factions can be used to fill it up. Also - we finally have roads to speed up movement on big maps. It is a true evolution of Gladius, you will experience that the game has a higher state of polish and more features although it doesn’t have as much content as Gladius with all of its DLCs.

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 1

Positive

Playtime: 47272 minutes

It's not quite as pick up and go as Gladius, but it has a little more depth and story. It does still have that cool working-folks ease about it, though. It seems to be a but of a system-eater over time - not sure why. Probably something I need to turn off or on in the properties. But otherwise it looks cool and plays cool.

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 1

Positive

Playtime: 3079 minutes

I gotta say, not the most original 4x game I've ever played, except insofar as the setting is really quite different. For me personally, the setting was what drew me in, and I really wasn't disappointed as far as the world building goes. The factions are just the right mix of interesting and mysterious. Otherwise there are some tweaks to the usual 4x formula, but it does feel a bit like a reskin of Civ games. Probably the biggest tweak is the unlockable 'mutations' which essentially add an extra element to how the gameplay works, like one that I got recently causes any biological units that die to spawn extra neutral enemies, that will randomly attack things nearby; it adds an interesting element to the gameplay. Another limits the technology you can research to those that your faction is . You can unlock one of these every run you do, and I think there's a couple dozen of them? The other tweak is that there are three factions you can't play, only form alliances with. At the end of a run two of them go to war with each other, and if you side with one of them you can finish a run by destroying their titan units which suddenly appear on the map. It's also possible to not pick a side and join the third faction, which I assume means you have to kill both sides, but I haven't done that yet. Overall, I think if you just look at the videos on the store page here, you probably know what you're getting into and whether or not you should buy it.

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 1

Positive

Playtime: 1046 minutes

Fun game and great setting, theme, and story. However as a 4X game, if you're expecting 500-1000 hours of gameplay you're gonna be disappointed. I've played through it twice and that was enough to see nearly the whole research tree and every single possible unit and building, so I don't have much motivation to play again. I enjoyed those two playthroughs though. To make it worthwhile to explore the story of each faction by playing a game with them there would have to be a greater variety of gameplay.

👍 : 1 | 😃 : 1

Positive

Playtime: 58 minutes

Lots of smaller Quality of Life improvements over Gladius, but the graphics are a blur, you can't make out what's what in a game that is keen on details. Mechanically, it's basically the same game though, which isn't a bad thing, but it means that Gladius is the better alternative here.

👍 : 4 | 😃 : 1

Negative

Playtime: 833 minutes

This a "Yes, but..." review, with the emphasis on "but". it's OK, you can have some fun with it, but you will probably long for Alpha Centauri or something along those lines as you play. The game's biggest issue is that it forces you into a single mode: build units to attack. The game actively discourages you to build more 'cities'. City morale drops at a super fast pace to the point that you feel like all you are building are 'flag' buildings to improve morale. It looks as ridiculous as it sounds and it just isn't fun. A single city will do you just fine. Games are short, so short that in most games you won't see the end of the tech tree. And that's indicative of the other problem. You never ever settle into anything. Nothing ever feels like you are on the right track except for when you have momentum in a war against someone else. You'll never feel remotely satisfied with your cities, and you never feel like you are dominating the map, And the very moment you think you might almost be there, the game throws its weird mechanic at you in which it splits all players into two sides in a last ditch war. You chose a side, and then everyone goes after a number of special units. Once they are gone, game over. When do I get to feel that I conquered the map with my skills? Never. And all of this is set in a world that feels faceless. Sure, when you zoom in you can distinguish between the different infantry types and tanks, but that's not how you play. You play zoomed out. And for that you rely on icons that suffer somewhat from the same fate: a Crusader tank icon is nearly indistinguishable from the Cyclone tank, and don't get me started how often I put my Medic in the front lines because I didn't recognize it fast enough. Cities expand but visually it's all mush when zoomed out. Zephon is ok if you want a quick 4x and don't have time to get invested in a big campaign (there is none, and a single map plays like a short skirmish compared to other games). But if you are looking for something with substance, this is probably not for you.

👍 : 7 | 😃 : 0

Positive

ZEPHON Steam Achievements

ZEPHON offers players a rich tapestry of challenges, with a total of 66 achievements to unlock. These achievements span a variety of in-game activities, encouraging exploration, skill development, and strategic mastery. Unlocking these achievements provides not only a rewarding experience but also a deeper engagement with the game's content.

What Are You?

Unlock the mutator.

Where Are We?

Unlock the mutator.

Meet Your Maker

Whispers Of A False Prophet

The Dead Hand Of Capitalism

The Pulled Thread

Perfection From Beyond The Stars

Form, Function

The Price Of Honor

Thicker Than Water

Are You The Great Speaker?

Unlock the mutator.

Can Love Be Moral?

Unlock the mutator.

Did Honor Balance Greed?

Unlock the mutator.

Did My Death Mean Anything?

Unlock the mutator.

Did Our Sacrifice Mean Nothing?

Unlock the mutator.

Did Our Unification Matter?

Unlock the mutator.

Was I Truly Human?

Unlock the mutator.

Was Perfection Worth It?

Unlock the mutator.

Was ZEPHON Truly Alive?

Unlock the mutator.

Why Did Humanity Die Alone?

Unlock the mutator.

What Price For Liberty?

Unlock the mutator.

When The Masses Stood With Me, I Was Invincible

Nobody Can Make It Out Here Alone

One Lie And They Shunned Me

I Carry Them With Me, Always

A Fine Peaceful People, Wasted On A Mistaken Prophecy

From Death To Eternal Life In Some Abominable Form

I—She—Felt Again

Better To Innovate Than Replicate

Just Infinite Suffering

Total Freedom Differs Little From Rolling A Die

We Took No Pleasure In Our Victory

We Have Been Human, Acrin and Machine

Peace At Last

Defeat Emulated Mind.

I Won't Stay Dead, You Know

Defeat Fallen Soldier.

My Sisters

Defeat Furtive Tribunal.

Perfection Is Impossible

Defeat Heartless Artificer.

A Last Morsel, I Beg You

Defeat Honorable Aristocrat.

The Art Of Dying Well

Defeat Practical Romantic.

Last Offer!

Defeat Rogue Operative.

I Shall Rise Again!

Defeat Untold Prophet.

To Fear What Is Beyond Foresight

Defeat Anchorite.

Got Me, Good One

Defeat Chieftess.

Closing Chat Window

Defeat ZEPHON.

Shared Hallucination

Finish a multiplayer game with another human player.

Zhuko Was Here

Win a game as ZhukoDim, but without playing.

The CAPTCHA Test

Win a game on medium difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

The Turing Test

Win a game on hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

The Ebert Test

Win a game on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

The Voigt-Kampf Test

Win a game on ultra hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

The Final Test

Win a game on nightmare difficulty in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

Strange Loops

Win a game with all mutators active in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

Multiverse of Madness

Win a game on nightmare difficulty with all mutators active in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

A Canticle For The Anchorite

Win a game by joining Anchorite in The Last Days of Earth on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

War Games

Win a game by joining ZEPHON in The Last Days of Earth on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

Our Independence Day

Win a game by staying independent in The Last Days of Earth on very hard difficulty or higher in ironman mode against at least 1 AI player for each human player and without predefined teams.

Little Wars

Win a game on a tiny map.

Space For Revelation

Win a game on a small, medium or large map.

Hair Carpet Maker

Win a game on a huge map.

Bullet Time

Win a game on slow or very slow speed.

Average Perfection

Win a game on medium speed.

Wizard Of Time And Space

Win a game on fast or very fast speed.

Grimmer Darkness

Kill 40001 units.

Cage-Bearer

Produce a Vorodai's Leviathan.

A New Genesis

Produce a Seraphim Archangel.

Mankind's Last Hope

Produce an Atlas Tank.

ZEPHON Screenshots

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ZEPHON Minimum PC System Requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i3 / AMD Ryzen 3
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Vulkan support with 2 GB VRAM (Nvidia GeForce 10 series / AMD Radeon 400 series)
Storage: 8 GB available space

ZEPHON Recommended PC System Requirements

Recommended:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 11
Processor: Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 5
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Vulkan support with 4 GB VRAM (Nvidia GeForce 16 series / AMD Radeon RX 5000 series)
Storage: 8 GB available space

ZEPHON Recommended Linux System Requirements

Recommended:

Processor: Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 5
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Vulkan support with 4 GB VRAM (Nvidia GeForce 16 series / AMD Radeon RX 5000 series)
Storage: 8 GB available space

ZEPHON has specific system requirements to ensure smooth gameplay. The minimum settings provide basic performance, while the recommended settings are designed to deliver the best gaming experience. Check the detailed requirements to ensure your system is compatible before making a purchase.

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ZEPHON Latest News & Patches

This game has received a total of 9 updates to date, ensuring continuous improvements and added features to enhance player experience. These updates address a range of issues from bug fixes and gameplay enhancements to new content additions, demonstrating the developer's commitment to the game's longevity and player satisfaction.

Version 1.0.8 to 1.0.10

Date: 2024-11-23 15:39:08

👍 : 201 | 👎 : 1

Version 1.0.11

Date: 2024-11-25 12:35:39

👍 : 143 | 👎 : 0

Version 1.0.12

Date: 2024-11-26 17:29:42

👍 : 121 | 👎 : 0

Version 1.0.13

Date: 2024-11-27 12:37:25

👍 : 165 | 👎 : 0