
More scores
- GameFAQsTough
- 4.25/5
- Player reviews
- 76% positive3,016 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$19.99
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2020 · Halcyon Winds · Real-time strategy · Simulation
Cepheus Protocol
Find patient zero before an alien virus takes over San Francisco and the cepheus protocol is enacted. Command your squad, save civilians, and stop the Pangu virus. Kill patient zero and save the world.
- Released
- 15 May 2020
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Real-time strategySimulationStrategyAdventureIndie
- Developers
- Halcyon Winds
- Publishers
- Halcyon Winds
- Modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
- Themes
- ActionSurvival
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Age ratings
- CLASS_IND 18PEGI 18USK 18ESRB M
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Features
- Co-opFamily SharingMMOMulti-playerOnline co-opPartial controller supportRemote Play TogetherSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam WorkshopSteam achievementsSteam trading cards
- Time to beat
- 3hmain story2hcompletionist
›Story
Cepheus Protocol is an open world RTS military survival game. You play as CERC, hunting Patient Zero while keeping quarantine camps alive. Hold the line against brutal mutations and rogue civilian combatants. No reinforcements.
No backup. It is on you.
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