Press kit
Xenon Protocol
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Description
A co-op roguelite card game where timing and trust replace communication. Play cards in the correct order — or fail.
Xenon Protocol is an online cooperative roguelite card game for 2–6 players, built around synchronization, intuition and trust. Your team travels through time and space to recover the missing fragments of the Xenon Protocol — the last chance to undo the nuclear apocalypse of 2030.
Each round, the lowest card across all players' hands must go into the portal next — but nobody can see anyone else's cards, and nobody can talk. The only way to communicate is a tablet powered by gravitational energy: draw a hint and send it through time. Every player lives in a different year, and the greater the temporal distance between you, the more distorted the signal becomes.
Every expedition takes you to real nuclear facilities, with authentic locations and coordinates.
History
Xenon Protocol was born after a game of The Mind, the cooperative card game in which players must lay down their cards in ascending order without saying a word. Hooked by that feeling of silent synchronization, the developer went looking for a roguelite built on the same idea — and found that none existed.
Xenon Protocol is the answer: the tension of The Mind, stretched across time, with distorted signals, items, boss levels and real places from nuclear history.
Features
- Cooperative card play for 2–6 players online, with cross-platform multiplayer.
- Play the lowest card across all players' hands into the portal — without seeing anyone else's cards.
- No voice, no chat: communicate only by drawing on a tablet powered by gravitational energy.
- Every player lives in a different year. The farther apart in time, the more distorted the signal.
- More than 100 real nuclear facilities, with authentic coordinates and a site archive of declassified history.
- Countless items, a shop and a permanent skill tree that carries over between runs.
- Boss levels that rewrite the rules — like Timeout Protocol and Man in the Middle.
- Available in 10 languages.
Videos
Trailer
Official Announcement Trailer (0:59) — watch on YouTube. A high-quality trailer file is available on request.
Images
Click a screenshot to download it at full resolution (2560 × 1440).
Logo & icon
Key art
Request a press copy
Press and content creator keys are available on request. Write to xenonprotocol@zazstudiogames.com with your name, outlet or channel, and a link to your work.
Monetization permission
Zaz Studio Games allows for the contents of Xenon Protocol to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Xenon Protocol is legally & explicitly allowed by Zaz Studio Games.
Additional links
- Steam store page — wishlist and follow the game.
- Trailer on YouTube
- Official website
About Zaz Studio Games
Zaz Studio Games is an independent, one-person game studio based in Italy. Xenon Protocol is its first game.
Credits
- Zaz Studio Games
- Game design, programming & production (solo developer)
- Paolo Capanna
- Original music (freelance composer)
- Maximu S.
- Art (freelance artist)
- Tuul Huur
- Art (freelance artist)
Contact
- Press, creators & business
- xenonprotocol@zazstudiogames.com