New Meridian · 2124 _
Destroy The Concordance. Sever the Chime. Save the City.
A neo-noir real-time tactics and stealth game. Command a squad of four resurrected Enforcers through the rain-soaked megacity of New Meridian, guided by Lyra, the rogue AI who woke you up.
Free on Windows, macOS & Linux for a limited time
Limited time only
Ahead of its release on the App Store and Steam, the complete desktop game is free to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. Grab it before the offer ends.
Windows 10 & 11, 64-bit
Universal: Apple Silicon & Intel
64-bit, x86-64
iPhone, iPad & Mac coming soon to the App Store · PC on Steam
The Story
Eighty years ago The Concordance ended unrest forever with the Chime, a crystalline implant fitted at birth. Every night it prunes away grief, anger and ambition, and citizens wake calmly believing whatever they're told.
A century after leading the last mutiny against the implants, Commander Vance thaws out of a cryo-cell beneath the Sump. The voice in his optic nerve is Lyra, the one Oracle AI who refused to perfect the leash, and she can't free the city alone.
There's a catch: rip out the Chime and it stops twelve million hearts. The network can't be destroyed. It has to be hijacked.
“Twelve million minds beating in perfect, synthetic harmony. And then I woke you up.”
The Squad
Pre-Collapse Special Forces, frozen, chipped or caged by the Concordance. Free them one mission at a time.
Enforcer 01 · Recruited M01 · Thaw
Pointman · Noir Detective
The commander who led the last mutiny against mandatory implants, sentenced to a hundred years of Hard Freeze. Completely Unchipped: biometric and empathy scanners can't see him.
Read the RoomC
His Amber Hunter-Eye marks every guard nearby, straight through the walls.
Gameplay
Missions begin in quiet tension, four trench coats moving through umbrella crowds under neon, before they erupt into Gauss-rifle fire and cybernetic warfare.
Real-time tactics
Select one agent or box-select all four, queue waypoints, take cover and focus fire. Each Enforcer brings a signature ability, and a downed squadmate can be revived before they bleed out.
Stealth
Keep your weapons buttoned under your trench coats and you're just four more figures in the crowd. Read the vision cones, slip past Harmonizer empathy scanners and keep the alarm silent. Draw a minigun, and every guard on the street knows.
The Persuadertron
Built from a Harmonizer leash turned inside out, the Persuadertron broadcasts a Memory Flash that jams the Chime. Civilians and guards remember who they were and join you; Harmonizers drown in what they were made to forget.
Chrono-Overclock
When a plan comes apart, Lyra overclocks your perception. The world crawls while you reposition, retarget and pop stims, then snaps back to full speed.
The Sanctuary
Between operations you return to Lyra's hideout beneath the Sump. Study the next target on the Intel Matrix, graft cyberware in the Surgery Bay and set every Enforcer's loadout in the Armory.
The Campaign
Each victory provokes a Concordance counter-move, and Lyra's interlude after every mission reveals the thread that makes the next one necessary. From the Sump to the summit of the Citadel Spire.
Act I · M01–M04Thaw out of a cryo-penitentiary, free your old squad one by one and build the first Persuadertron from a stolen leash.
Act II · M05–M08Blind the Mid-Deck's cameras, lift a courier's clearance in a Kowloon night market and crash a gala in the clouds.
Act III · M09–M12Save the citizens whose Chimes rejected the Sync, then turn Inquisitor Kael's own parade against him.
Act IV · M13–M16Lose your home, steal a cloaked command dirigible and go back for the squadmate you left behind.
Act V · M17–M20Steal the Disarmer, the power and the signal to build a Severance Payload, then hold the ship against boarders.
Act VI · M21–M24Drop onto the Citadel in the rain and fight your way up the Spire to sever the Chime for good.
The Arsenal
Pistols and tethers fold under a trench coat. Miniguns and Gauss Cannons don't, and they trip the alarm on sight.
Concealable
Iconic amber-grip heavy blaster pistol, hidden under a trench coat.
Non-lethal
Builds neural stun until the target collapses. Nearly silent.
Scoped
Vesper's silenced long-range rifle, with a whisper-quiet magnetic report.
Memory Flash
Civilians and guards join you. Harmonizers are stunned.
Heavy
Shreds cover and light vehicles. Impossible to hide.
Heavy
Blows through reinforced walls, Spinners and mech armour.
Graft upgrades onto each Enforcer in the Surgery Bay. Every slot climbs through three tiers, with the best grafts unlocked by campaign progress.
Ocular
Arms
Legs
Cortex
Faces of New Meridian
The Concordance's secret police hunt “Aberrants” from roaring Spinners. Above them sit the architects of the grid, and above them all, something on top of the Spire.
Concordance
Inquisitor Kael
Director of Internal Harmony
Concordance
Evelyn Thorne
Chief Architect of the Grid
Concordance
Prefect Ilse Varga
Harmonizer Academy
Concordance
The Harmonizers
Concordance secret police
Ally
Mara
Leader of the Unbound
Surveillance Feed
Captured in-engine from the current build.
Play Now
Cortex Zero is coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac on the App Store, and to PC on Steam, with every order equally at home under a mouse or a fingertip. Play it free on Windows, macOS and Linux today.
