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Save 20% on Zexion on Steam Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and...

Zexion, a challenging metroidvania that checkpoints you right before bosses, has no corpse runs, has options to make the game easier, and has a built in randomizer, is on sale now during the Steam Autumn Sale!

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The cover for Rustbelt: Ground Zero! Done by the amazing @gallantleaf.bsky.social !!!!

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Nah I'm pretty bad at promoting my game!

The randomizer's gotten lots of testing with normal settings, but I don't think the generation works quite right with certain wacky settings, guess I'll be working on that...

Wacky randomizer settings!

Today's Zexion update lets you copy and paste random stuff into the Randomizer settings to get really wacky settings (Possible before but sometimes it would crash, oops)! Try pasting this post in there!

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Save 25% on Zexion Soundtrack on Steam The Soundtrack for Zexion! Features MP3s as well as Famitracker files that also have a bunch of weird unused stuff in them.

Did you know that Zexion's soundtrack includes FamiTracker project files with added commentary? You can see what the notes are, mess with the instruments, play the songs looping indefinitely, and more! store.steampowered.com/app/3691900/...

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Save 20% on Zexion on Steam Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and...

silksong seems cool and all unfortunately chose the wrong year to come out, gonna be hard to beat my goat ZEXION

its looks are disarming, just trust me when i say every time it went for something it consistently blew my expectations out of the water

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Save 20% on Zexion on Steam Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and...

Zexion is 20% off this week! Now's a good time to check out this huge metroidvania full of huge bosses, unique and cool powerups, a built in randomizer, and more! Check it out at store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/... !

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Three and a half months after launch, Zexion is finally Steam Deck verified!

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Y'all gotta pretend I posted this on release day, and that I made a brand new trailer for it!

Zexion is out now! It's a big metroidvania featuring tons of bosses, a built-in randomizer, lots of cool movement tech and sequence breaking, and more! Purchase/Wishlist it now on Steam!

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Save 20% on Zexion on Steam Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and...

Zexion, my challenging, epic metroidvania with tons of bosses, secrets, sequence breaking, movement tech, etc. is at its lowest price yet for the Steam Summer Sale! Check it out here!
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The blue area in R'talva would turn orange. And the Hyperspace zones would have flashing orange colors. (which made it more intense, by accident)

There was a mistake with the "Less Intense Palette" option in Zexion causing wacky unintended palettes in a few areas. I think players using that option thought it was intentional because of how weird those areas are!

It's been fixed in the latest patch.

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I have gotten some fan art, and some pretty cool fan art at that. But it's kind of all strewn about in hard to find places!

The Zexion seekers, Natu and Phantom.

Seeing 0 Zexion fan art anywhere was a tragedy, I felt pretty much obligated to do this lol @gallantleaf.bsky.social

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I uh... really should at least repost this stating that the game's already out, and has been for nearly 3 months!

In terms of accessibility, I also like these photo sensitivity options I put in the game. An option to go and set them shows up before the game starts when it's first loaded up.
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Assist Options

Zexion features tons of different assist options to fine tune the difficulty of the game, should you need to. Lot's of different damage settings, and even Save States! So almost anyone should be able to play it. Doesn't prevent achievements either.
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I do think having some kind of visible goal that the player works towards is a really cool thing to have in a game!

And I did want Zexion to be challenging even when the player knows what to do. Some people don't like this, of course, and that's okay, it's a matter of taste.

Maybe it's the "wrong way to make a game" to have things vaguely communicated sometimes, but going out of your way to always communicate things clearly (like having an NPC tell you exactly what you need to do, or having arrow lead the player) can really ruin the mood of a game.

Some of the most common sources of difficulty in games are "points of miscommunication". And if a game is meant to be challenging when things are communicated properly, and there's something the player is missing, it can come across as unreasonably difficult.
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I do plan to put the soundtrack on YouTube!

Save 20% on Zexion Soundtrack on Steam The Soundtrack for Zexion! Features MP3s as well as Famitracker files that also have a bunch of weird unused stuff in them.

The Soundtrack for Zexion has been released! This is a special soundtrack release! In addition to 79 songs, it also includes FamiTracker project files for both Music and SFX with added commentary!
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PLAY ZEXION!! ITS SO GOOD!! ITS SO GOOD!!
its literally so good it got the coveted "kay went out of his way to write a steam review" award so you can read me gush about it more in the ss

Okay, gotten to the end of this one. Spectacular game. After you get the double-jump it opens up HUGELY and there's so many objectives and bosses you can tackle in any order.

And that finale... Goddamn! I really want to see this one sell, and for Gallant Leaf to make more games. This is their FIRST

I'll keep your request in mind! I'd like to get console ports out, and this is more motivation towards putting in the effort to get it done!

A lot of people have asked. I hope to, but I don't have any concrete plans yet.

Save 15% on Zexion on Steam Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and...

My big challenging sci-fi action adventure Zexion is currently on sale! Check it out! #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

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