Planned Release Date: December 2026

About This Game

Archive Zero is a narrative investigation and management game set in an alternate 1960s Britain during the Cold War.

You work behind a desk, sorting through reports, photographs, letters, artifacts, and other material that is sent to the archive. Most of it looks ordinary at first. Some of it is not.

Read carefully, compare information across cases, and decide what deserves your attention. As more files arrive, connections begin to appear between people, places, and events that were never meant to be connected.

Between investigations, you will manage resources, upgrades, and the growing demands of the archive itself.

FEATURES

• Examine classified documents, photographs, artifacts, and field records.

• Follow cases that range from routine incidents to much larger investigations.

• Connect information across separate files and events.

• Manage resources and archive upgrades.

• Discover hidden cases and material.

• Collect photographs, postcards, stamps, cigarette cards, artifacts, and other archival items.

• Make choices about what to pursue and what to leave alone.

Sometimes the most important thing in a file is what is not written down.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools are used to assist with porting the game text into additional languages. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and edited by the developer before release. No generative AI is used during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Archive Zero contains themes related to crime, death, violence, and war events. Some case files, photographs, and archival materials may contain descriptions, depictions or references of injury, corpses, tobacco, and alcohol.