ZERO TRUST GAMES Systems Over Spectacle
Zero Trust Games builds systems-first strategy and simulation games in one shared sci-fi universe, from Earth's collapse to interstellar civilization. Networks, colonies, logistics and autonomous agents are the game.
Named after the Toryn Gate, humanity's way out of a failing Earth. Humanity repeatedly solves one crisis by creating the conditions for the next. Each game explores a different layer of the same civilization, and each stands on its own.
c. 2040
AI models predict that Earth will collapse. Some start preparing to leave; most refuse to believe it. Then climate, resources, supply chains and networks begin failing together, and some wonder whether the forecast made it happen.
Toryn: Daemon
c. 2050
Emergency contracts become long-term dependencies. Four corporations grow indispensable, and institutions fight to keep critical services running under escalating attack.
Toryn: Blacksite · Watchfloor
c. 2090s
A passage beyond the solar system is found. Before any ark is sent, small survey crews go through first to scout new worlds for humanity. None of them come back.
Toryn: Wayfinder
c. 2105
Earlier escape programs have failed. A passage beyond the solar system is humanity's last bet, and Stasis-6, the Great Ark, will carry tens of thousands through it. The only question is who and what goes aboard.
Toryn: Manifest
2110s–2140s
For those left behind, the collapse is uneven. Fortified enclaves and corporate arcologies stand between ruins, and trade lanes become lifelines for the populations that remain.
Toryn: Freeport · Lifeline
From c. 2110
Stasis-7, the last and smallest ark, carries a few hundred chosen specialists, their industry and their knowledge to a hostile world, where sealed settlements must learn to survive together.
Toryn: Stasis
c. 2180s
Long before the Exodus, Stasis-5 left Earth on a voyage meant to last generations. A century later, the people aboard live by the Pact and believe in Arrival, and the ship still transmits to an Earth that no longer answers.
Toryn: Pact
2500s
Settlements grow into interstellar civilizations, and the Four into institutions whose influence spans generations.
Toryn: Starborn
We are developing ten games in parallel across the Toryn universe, with new concepts in early design. Release order follows readiness: whichever game proves itself with players first moves toward launch.
Earth and beyond the Gate · c. 2040–2105
The collapse, the corporations that rise through it, and the race to decide who leaves.
Hacking Simulation for the AI Era
Genre: Hacking Simulation · Strategy · Systems Simulation
Status: In Development
Earth, circa 2040. As an independent cyber operator, run illegal cloud infrastructure and orchestrate specialized AI agents to infiltrate layered corporate networks. You win by designing the operation, not by typing fast: map the topology, choose the right models, keep persistence and control Trace. And routine contracts keep exposing the same concealed initiative.
Core Systems
Plan the Operation. Get Everyone Out.
Genre: Turn-Based Tactical Infiltration
Status: In Development · working title
Earth, around 2050, as corporate conflict turns physical but stays deniable. Command a covert operations cell: study incomplete intelligence, plan insertion and extraction, assign specialists, then infiltrate, complete the objective and get the team out. A perfect operation may end with no shots fired.
Core Systems
Build the SOC. Run the Operation.
Genre: Security Operations Facility Management Simulation
Status: In Development
Build and expand a Security Operations Center as a living facility. Create specialized rooms, hire and vet employees, train teams, allocate scarce specialists, manage budgets and bottlenecks, and keep the operation working while attacks, fatigue and even rare insider threats test the organization you built.
Core Systems
Survey. Survive. Keep Jumping.
Genre: Space Exploration & Survival
Status: Early Concept · working title
Years before the Exodus, a crew of five takes a small survey ship through the Toryn Gate to scout new worlds for humanity, and finds there is no way back. Fly from orbit to the ground without a loading screen, scan and name what you discover, and build small outposts to refuel, restock and repair before jumping into the unknown again.
Core Systems
The Ark Always Launches
Genre: Turn-Based 4X with Simultaneous Turns
Status: In Development
Earth, around 2105. The Four, the Syndicate, the Collective and the Remnant State compete over Stasis-6, the Great Ark. The ark always launches; every campaign decides who and what goes aboard, and who commands it. Seize installations or hack them, bargain and betray, and get your people aboard before the Gate fails. Several factions can win at once.
Core Systems
Earth and beyond · 2110s–2500s
Those left behind rebuild a fractured Earth. Those who left must survive a hostile world, and then the stars.
One Extraordinary Machine in a Broken World
Genre: Trade and Privateer Sandbox
Status: In Development · working title
Own one persistent hover carrier on a decaying, high-tech Earth. Trade between enclaves, take contracts, salvage, hack and fight through hostile corridors, and shape the carrier into the career you choose.
Core Systems
Every Line Is a Lifeline
Genre: Post-Collapse Transport Tycoon
Status: In Development
Rebuild the rail network of a dying, dust-choked continent. Restore buried lines and old engines, reopen closed farms, mines and factories, and keep cities alive with the trains you run. Decay is your only rival, and you can never save them all.
Core Systems
The Age of Engineered Survival
Genre: Planetary Colony & Regional Simulation
Status: In Development
Keep a network of sealed settlements alive on a hostile world. Specialize colonies in power, food, manufacturing or research, then manage the dependencies between them, building toward Stasis City, a megacity no single colony can build alone.
Core Systems
Climb the Ship That Keeps You Alive
Genre: Ship-Systems Survival & Society Management
Status: In Development
Around 2180, aboard Stasis-5, a generation ship launched a century ago. Four or five generations live by the Pact and believe in Arrival. Then your stasis pod opens: you are a relic from Earth, and the ship is failing. Climb from the deep decks to the Core, sector by sector, and at the top find the lie the ship runs on. Break it, or keep it.
Core Systems
An Empire Is a Network
Genre: Turn-Based Systems-First 4X
Status: In Development
Design a civilization, explore a procedural galaxy and build logistics networks across enormous distances. A powerful empire can fall without losing every planet: routes severed, hubs isolated, shipyards starved.
Core Systems
Four corporations become indispensable by solving real problems. Then their services become authority people depend on, and finally power they struggle to challenge.
Defense & Containment
Helix protects.
Cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure protection, until security becomes control.
AI & Optimization
Aurelion thinks.
Autonomous systems and advanced computing, until optimization decides whose survival counts.
Networks & Infrastructure
Vantrex connects.
Energy, telecommunications and industry, until connectivity becomes dependency.
Intelligence & Secrecy
Obsidian knows.
Intelligence and information security, until protecting information means controlling what people may know.
We make strategy and simulation games about understanding, shaping, exploiting and defending complex systems. Real cybersecurity and infrastructure concepts become mechanics no one else would invent, and you never need to know the jargon to play.
Trust nothing. Verify everything. Design for survival.
Mechanics interact to create situations no one scripted, with real second-order consequences.
Networks, supply chains, colonies and security architecture decide what you can do.
Plan, configure, automate and allocate instead of steering an avatar.
Deep simulations, but you can always understand why an outcome happened.
Premium games: no loot boxes, no randomized packs, no paid power.