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Gallant Leaf

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I'm a solo indie game dev! I'm the creator of a big action-adventure called Zexion! Wishlist/Purchase it on steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/Zexion/

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Save 35% 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...

简体中文, Français, and Italiano language options have been added to the challenging, epic metroidvania 泽克西昂 (Zexion)! The game is 35% off (an all-time low!) to celebrate! Check it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Steam #Zexion

26.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 43    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 3
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Chinese, French, and Italian translations for Zexion are coming out February 25th!

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Steam #Zexion

23.02.2026 00:50 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Finished the playthrough with 100% Item Completion! But DO NOT FOR A MOMENT think that's the end of what this game has to offer.

I may be finished with streaming Zexion as of tonight, but this game is worth every single dollar of the $20 it costs. Metroidvania/horror fan? BUY THIS GAME IMMEDIATELY.

02.02.2026 05:45 — 👍 61    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 0

I have quite a bit I need to catch up on. Void Stranger and Pseudoregalia are pretty high up on the list!

18.01.2026 18:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Save 30% 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 30% off right now! This Metroidvania epic features unique movement tech and powerups, insane bosses, absolutely ZERO chatty tagalong NPCs, a tightly crafted nonlinear world, a built in Randomizer, and more! store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Steam #Zexion

15.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 24    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2

I don't know why nobody's just put up a good guide on steam yet and it annoys me too!

13.01.2026 23:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Things I'm hoping to get done this year...

1)Learn the Vulkan API inside and out.

2)Finally learn Blender for actual realsies.

3)Play more video games! Really didn't make time for this last year... I have a lot of stuff I need to catch up on!

02.01.2026 01:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Save 30% 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 30% off for Steam's Winter Sale! Now's a great time to check out this epic Metroidvania with a deep interconnected world, over-the-top bosses, and a built in Randomizer with lots of features!

store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Steam #Zexion

18.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 22    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 4
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02.12.2025 20:31 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Save 30% 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 30% off right now! This is lowest price so far for this EPIC metroidvania featuring huge challenging bosses, unique cool movement tech, a built in randomizer, and more! Check it out at store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/... !

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #metroidvania #Steam #Zexion

23.11.2025 23:58 — 👍 25    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 5
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Pretty much everything in the game was straight to pixel art without concept art. This is pretty much the closed thing I have to concept art.

There will likely be more art created for things in the future. The vertical lines on Siege's helmet are supposed to be a vent.

14.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Home | Gallant Leaf

I've got a website now!

gallantleaf.com

Not much on it yet, but I hope to get some cool stuff on it soon!

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Zexion

12.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

It's really not that hard to add an option to turn off screen shake to your game! You really should do that if you haven't already!

#indiedev #gamedev #gamedesign

24.10.2025 02:16 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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 for the week! Check it out, especially if you find the idea of a challenging metroidvania with tons of unique upgrades, a dense, varied, expansive world, and intense boss battles interesting!

store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/Zexion/

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Steam #Zexion

17.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 24    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1

I think the game has plenty of tension as is. I do have an option to turn off the entire status HUD, which doesn't turn off the boss health bars for some reason. I should probably change that. It'd be even more tense not knowing how much health or missiles you have!

09.10.2025 00:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I originally didn't have boss health bars in Zexion to create a "sense of tension". I later added them so that players could see the effectiveness of different weapons and better strategize. There are lots of weapons in Zexion, so it seemed kind of important.

#indiedev #gamedev #Zexion

09.10.2025 00:10 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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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!

store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/Zexion/

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #Steam #Zexion

29.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 35    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 4
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The cover for Rustbelt: Ground Zero! Done by the amazing @gallantleaf.bsky.social !!!!

#indiedev #gamedev #miniatures #rustbeltgame #soon

15.09.2025 00:13 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Nah I'm pretty bad at promoting my game!

08.09.2025 17:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

07.09.2025 01:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Wacky randomizer settings!

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!

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #metroidvania #Steam #Zexion #screenshotsaturday

07.09.2025 01:29 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 1
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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/...

#gaming #metroidvania #Steam #Zexion #gamemusic #chiptune

29.08.2025 13:30 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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

store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

26.08.2025 23:09 — 👍 204    🔁 50    💬 9    📌 3
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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/... !

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #metroidvania #Steam #Zexion

25.08.2025 18:35 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Three and a half months after launch, Zexion is finally Steam Deck verified!

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #metroidvania #Steam #SteamDeck #Zexion

12.07.2025 01:08 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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

10.07.2025 19:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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!

store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #metroidvania #Steam #Zexion

10.07.2025 19:42 — 👍 55    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 3
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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!
store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming #metroidvania #Steam #Zexion

26.06.2025 23:14 — 👍 29    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

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)

19.06.2025 03:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

#indiedev #gamedev #gaming

19.06.2025 00:37 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0