ZeroSpace

ZeroSpace is a sci-fi real-time strategy game set in the Orion sector. Humanity’s faster-than-light travel network is failing because it lacks flux, the resource that powers it. As the old powers fight over the remaining flux, a hidden agenda puts two distant galaxies on a collision course. You build a base, gather resources and lead armies through missions with thousands of units on the battlefield, using choices, abilities and specialized weapons to shape your campaigns.

Story and campaign

The single-player campaign has 13 main story missions and 22 crew member dialogues during Early Access. Your choices affect the story’s outcome, which is told through cinematic cutscenes. In campaign mode, you can build relationships with 10 specialist heroes from different factions.

The setting’s four major factions each have their own motives and ways of fighting:

• Protectorate: Defenders of humanity’s ventures through the Orion Arm and the United Earth Spheres, they use veteran commandos to strike enemy positions and mech divisions to break enemy lines.
• Grell: These evolved, plant-like creatures create raw flux crystal sites. Once passive, they now spread across worlds to defend their biosphere, expanding blooms through battlefield biomass and attacking with forms such as the acidic Harbinger and the rampaging Reaver.
• Legion: The fanatical Legion of Truth serves its Emperor and a pantheon of god-like beings, seeking to bring others under the Idals. Its armies use waves of expendable Thralls and Fanatics, as well as the Terror Tank, a mobile fortress that reconfigures as battles change.
• Xol: This civilization of autonomous robotic consciousness was nearly exterminated by the Legion. United by the need to survive, the Xol bring advanced robotics and the accumulated knowledge of their society against those who threaten them.

Armies and combat

You manage a base, gather resources and command large armies using a control system designed to support both detailed unit management and broader army control. An ability system supports engagements, and your arsenal includes orbital weapons, nuclear strikes and giant mechs. You can also choose from 6 mercenary sub-factions and 14 distinct commanders to shape your force.

Game modes

ZeroSpace offers solo play, co-op, co-op with AI and PvP. In the co-op Galactic War, you and a friend take on AI missions; victories earn points for your alliance and help it expand its territory. Each season has its own story, events and rewards.

Galactic War missions include hand-crafted scenarios with multiple difficulty levels, randomized enemy factions and objectives, and map threat levels that add special bonuses or hazards. Customizable arsenal slots add further ways to vary missions. A separate, persistent galaxy map supports shared conquest across co-op, single-player, PvE, 2vAI, 2v2, Scenarios and 1v1 modes.

Factions and forces

The game features 4 main factions and 7 mercenary factions, which provide additional specialized battle groups. In multiplayer, you can choose from over 14 commanders to lead your games.