Experience visionary strategic gameplay set in an evolving procedural galaxy populated by billions of autonomous citizens and private companies. Build a faction with a rich background and strong identity, then oversee their interstellar efforts and advance their position within the precarious New Space Age.
Zenith Frontier features traditional 4X and grand strategy gameplay elements in the context of several novel mechanics.
Explore and colonise hostile exoplanets and help humanity survive the struggles of 2040 and beyond in this interstellar stratey simulation game.
Experience visionary strategic gameplay set in an evolving procedural galaxy populated by billions ot autonomous citizens and private companies. Build a faction with a rich background and strong identity, then oversee their interstellar efforts to advance their position within the precarious New Space Age.
Testing user interface for visualising control of planetary systems.
Testing the procedural generation of planetary systems and rendering of the system as a scale-adjusted map.
Testing procedural generation of planetary systems and rendering of those systems to form the galactic map.
New Gameplay Features:
A Shared Origin
Factions start in the same overpopulated, suffering home system and compete to expand outwards in the year 2040. This is made possible by the recent discovery of [REDACTED] which allows high-tech spacecraft to slip into subspace and reach distant worlds.
Volatile Subspace
Exploration of this newly accessible subspace is incredibly dangerous. This chaotic region is thick with dark matter and swirling dark energy fields, but the ability to travel interstellar distances in considerably shorter timeframes may be worth the risk. Known safe routes will become critical to sustaining your remote holdings, but beware - subspace is neither static or stable and these routes may change without notice!
Communications Are Essential
Unshielded signals will be destroyed in subspace and must be carried through by comm drones. News that arrives at your capital from a distant colony will be out-of-date - the situation will have evolved and you will have to consider this when planning your response. Additionally, perhaps the illegal hijacking of another’s comm drones will glean some strategic information - and prevent it from arriving at its intended destination!
Special Relativity
Spacecraft travelling at incredible speeds and colonies established within deep gravity wells will experience first-hand the effects of special relativity and time dilation. Time will progress more quickly for the crew of your [REDACTED] spacecraft making a long journey at high speeds than the colony they are destined for.
Geospatial Resource Pricing
A supply and demand model for price determination within a dynamic economic system that includes taxes, import/export fees and transportation costs mean that resource prices will vary throughout the galaxy. Plan your economic developments accordingly - or invest in this interstellar network infrastructure to take a slice of your rival’s operations.
Top Level Direction
Shape your faction from the top down by issuing orders, directives, and edists to your military staff, governors, and private sectors. These are executed autonomously, which can lead to surprising outcomes. This indirect control poses interesting strategic challenges.
Diplomacy and Politics
Research and Technology
Military Conflict
Management and Governance
Zenith Frontier is being designed and developed in line with these pillars.
A rich, living world that generates unique emergent scenarios.
A semantic network of interconnected simulations.
A high quality interactive system that prioritises gameplay.
The player is primarily working towards self-selected goals in open gameplay.
The player provides direction from the top-down to autonomous agents.
The alpha build is currently available only as part of a closed alpha testing process. You can apply to join the alpha test here. Alpha testers will be asked to sign the alpha test agreement.
Zenith Frontier is still in early development and it’s release date has not yet been announced.
We are currently asking alpha testers to agree to a soft NDA. We’re asking our testers not to share any information, screenshots, etc. because the game is not finished.
We would prefer to work with our testers to improve the game and show our work off to everyone else a little later on.
Yes. We plan to release Zenith Frontier on both platforms. Testers will be given full access keys for both services at launch.
Yes, Zenith Frontier will be available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Zenith Frontier is a pausable, real time strategy game.
We are currently focusing on the single player experience of Zenith Frontier. We hope to develop multiplayer functionality in the future, following a well-received launch.
You win a game of Zenith Frontier by taking control of the Human Assembly. This can be done in a number of ways!
