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Proxy Studios, developer of the popular Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, have announced their next 4x strategy game ZEPHON will release on November 8th. ZEPHON will have Native Linux support. Disclosure: the developer sent me a pre-release key.

If you think it looks like Gladius, you would be right, since both are evolutions over Proxy Studios first game Pandora: First Contact from 2013. Here you 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.

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Speaking over email the developer said to me: "Our previous game, Gladius, has been played by over 1.5 million players. Zephon now has in excess of 500 k views on YouTube (including 100 k on the IGN gameplay trailer) and more than 100 k wishlists on Steam a month before release.

In Zephon we did some fun stuff to tackle the "endgame problem" in 4X games, leaned heavily into Souls-like world-building and added narrative design elements to reward players who play multiple sessions (inspired by Hades and co.)."

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I liked Pandora: First Contact. I was looking for an Alpha Centauri-type game, and it came out and so did Civ: Beyond Earth, and neither of them quite felt like what I really wanted. But I played both a fair amount, and played and enjoyed Pandora about as much as Civ: BE, which is impressive considering we're talking MUCH smaller budget.

So I'll definitely think about giving this a shot.
devland Oct 12
Gladius is amazing. The only warhammer 40k game to have 11 playable factions.
The Linux binaries work really well to this day.
Joseph Oct 13
When I see that kind of games today, I only see a $400+ choo-choo-train of DLCs coming on the side.

I still have to finish my Stellaris choo-choo-train that is never stopping. I am not rich enough to buy another of those.
Decided to reinstall Gladius recently, but it just does not seem to work for me any more. Have tried, native, proton.
trev0r Oct 14
this looks awesome
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