

ZIX
Hidden IO · 2025 · Action Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, VR, Bullet Hell, Asymmetric VR
PC
Mostly Positive77% · 26 📈 Making a comeback 93%
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About ZIX
ZIX IS IN EARLY ACCESS
In the boundless cosmos, order is dull—but chaos is beautiful.Welcome to ZIX, a mind-bending VR roguelike where every run is a vivid hallucination, and every choice twists the fabric of reality. You are an Acolyte, an agent of cosmic entropy and devout servant of the insatiable deity known only as Zix. Your calling? Weaponize absurdity, embrace beautiful destruction, and remix existence.
Some profound truths are waiting for the right Acolyte.Others are better left buried.
In the boundless cosmos, order is dull—but chaos is beautiful.Welcome to ZIX, a mind-bending VR roguelike where every run is a vivid hallucination, and every choice twists the fabric of reality. You are an Acolyte, an agent of cosmic entropy and devout servant of the insatiable deity known only as Zix. Your calling? Weaponize absurdity, embrace beautiful destruction, and remix existence.
🧪 MIX THE WORLD
Reality is just another offering.Before each run, you'll harvest surreal blessings from three strange worlds—then fuse them through ritual, creating your next trial. These divine ingredients don't merely tweak numbers—they warp the very fabric of reality. A few twisted possibilities:- Enemies leave tombstones that become deadly turrets.
- Healing is doubled, but you can’t revive allies.
- You’re stalked by a massive, unstoppable beast that kills anything it touches.
- Friendly fire enabled—only one can reach the exit.
✋FIRST INSTINCT: MOVEMENT & COMBAT SYSTEM
No face buttons. No menus. Nothing to distract you and break the trance. Just pure motion and momentum.First Instinct is ZIX’s custom-built movement & combat system—a divine dance where you dash, leap, wall-run, block, and hurl weapons using just two triggers and intuitive gestures that echo your intentions. It’s fast, fluid, and expressive—like pulling off stunts from an action movie, but you’re the one doing it.Combat rewards precise timing, rhythmic improvisation, and devotion to Zix’s chaotic will. Chain your movements and attacks together seamlessly. Become a perfect vessel, reading your enemies and adapting without thought.You don’t just fight—you perform.🛠️ REMIX YOURSELF
The chaos doesn’t just warp the world—it rewires you.Each run, Zix grants you new blessings: augments and weapons that transform how your Acolyte moves, fights, and survives. These aren’t mere stat boosts—they’re divine mutations, reshaping the character to match your playstyle .- Throw your blade and teleport on impact, cleansing the battlefield in a fiery AOE blast.
- Fire arrows that fracture mid-air, seeking out targets with unholy precision.
- Convert your dashes into explosions of divine retribution.
🧑🤝🧑 BRING FRIENDS (OR DON’T)
Play solo or with up to two fellow Acolytes in seamless co-op.Coordinate builds. Resurrect each other mid-chaos. Stack conflicting ingredients and see what happens—maybe brilliance, maybe a flaming collapse. Either way, ZIX adapts. Whether you ride alone or summon a coven, the run bends to your party’s collective will.This isn’t just multiplayer. It’s a shared hallucination. A chaos ritual. A test of bonds in a world that breaks everything.🧩 UNRAVEL WHAT’S HIDDEN
ZIX isn’t just chaos—it’s a riddle wrapped in madness.As you mix ingredients and survive your runs, you’ll uncover new relics of entropy—some unlock secret bosses, others distort entire worlds, or open story paths that were never meant to be found.Between runs, you’ll encounter cryptic NPCs. Symbols that recur. Events that feel like bugs, until they don’t. Patterns emerge. Meanings shift. Some doors only open when the Cauldron is stirred just so.Every choice you make might lead to something beneath the surface.Some profound truths are waiting for the right Acolyte.Others are better left buried.
🔥FEATURES
- Play alone or with up to 2 friends
- Engage in roguelike gameplay with endless combinations and replayability
- Mix worlds together using The Cauldron and uncover their secrets
- Express yourself with a deep, varied combat system using natural-feeling controls
- Fight 20+ different enemies across 3 worlds
- Find 30+ stacking upgrades that change your playstyle
- Unlock 10+ totally new abilities to change your kit dramatically
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Very small game with simple graphics and unusual controls that is not optimized well - strafe left to right and you can see the stutter on static art assets. You can't have that in VR.7 found this helpful
Very fun game! I was able to beat some areas on tier 2 solo, but couldn't beat my first boss solo. A lot more fun with friends and strangers. Buy this game!3 found this helpful
I have only made it through the first part of the tutorial but my positive review comes from my interaction with the people. The game wouldn't load after purchase. Within 2 minutes of reaching out on the discord, someone took the time to walk me through getting what they needed to find a fix. Within 10 minutes, I was playing and they had a solution ready for their community if anyone else runs into the same issue. The other part of my positive review comes from loving to see a game made by some humans with a cool idea. I genuinely can't wait to make my video on this.3 found this helpful
Very, very fun game!2 found this helpful
1. Repetitive graphics 2. Repetitive combat 3. Janky climbing 4. Janky combat 5. Poor value2 found this helpful
Only 2 hours played but im addicted amazing roguelike game unique movement which feels so refreshing compared to basic stick or gtag movement trigger to grab weapons took some getting used to but i highly recommend only cons are that the servers are very dead and its a STEEP learning curve but probably a high skill ceiling2 found this helpful
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