Zero Moment is a 2D cosmic-horror Metroidvania that thrusts you into the sprawling world of Feynman's Riddle. The Riddle is a colossal generation-ship adrift on a journey spanning millennia over vast oceans of deep space, scarred by war and rotted through with alien corruption.
You awaken from stasis as Erin, the Riddle's Cook and Soldier, body and mind fused to a nano-suit built to save whatever's left of humanity. Your enemy is as it has always been: the fiendish, uncanny Atrament, the invader which clawed its way out of the event horizon of mankind's arrogance to enslave the cosmos.
Explore the industrial workings of the Riddle. Make your way through it and to the end, wherever that leads you, whatever it might mean.
Harvest life and power from fallen enemies. War is familiar to the Soldier, but her weapons are new.
Confront the Executors, remarkably dangerous specimens who each rule one of the ship's vital subsystems.
Evolve… or die. Acquire power-ups that change the way you move around the ship and defeat your foes. Crack the complexities of dark energy to enhance your weapons and skills.
Unravel a mystery tens of thousands of years in the making, and follow its thread through elements of betrayal, extinction and rebirth that tie Earth's last stand to the endless jaws of a rupture in spacetime.
You remember stasis gel. Cool and paralyzing as it closes in around you, filling your nose and lungs while you float inside a medbay capsule. You remember the court-martial that put you there, the satisfaction of smashing a frying basket over a superior officer's head. He ran his mouth a lot. Life taught you to let your hands do the talking.
Next thing you know, you're locked in a power suit, its synthetic voice buzzing through your skull. It says you're the last compatible human host on the Riddle, the only living being within light-years that can wear it. That can save the universe. It says the two of you have to find the Mass Driver to wipe the Atrament threat out of time and space, for good this time.
Suit up. Face the unknown. Survive.
Welcome to the story of your life.
Zero Moment blends fast, responsive action with expressive ability synergies.
Skill-based traversal: Dashes, rocket jumps, teleportation beams let you chain movement across multi-layered arenas. Turn your momentum into mayhem: experiment with your weapons to discover attack combinations.
Machida Medley: Mix weapons to discover attack combinations and turn your momentum into mayhem. Add a twist of Erin and serve chilled.
Harvest loop: Defeat enemies, harvest their dark-matter orbs, recover health and ammo or bank them for use at upgrade stations for permanent suit mutations. Try not to lose what makes you human along the way.
Adaptive bosses: Executors evolve phases that can disable or hijack core abilities and demand learning counters to survive their onslaught.
Enemy variety: 100+ different types of enemies to hound you across the map and give you the opportunity to hone your craft.
Exploration rewards: Optional routes hide weapons, modifications, lore disks, and shortcuts to unlock or reshape the map.
