IXION
Released Dec 2022
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
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Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
IXION launched on December 7, 2022 as a complete narrative city-builder. Following release, Bulwark Studios delivered a series of post-launch updates throughout 2023: a balancing and UI patch in January, difficulty options in May, and an accessibility and chapter improvements update in August 2023. The developer's January 2023 update plan laid out three specific updates, all of which were subsequently delivered by August 2023 — completing the post-launch support roadmap they had publicly committed to.
The most recent developer communication is a July 2, 2024 performance patch released alongside the announcement of IXION coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. This was primarily a technical maintenance update. The DLC list contains only a soundtrack and artbook, both released on launch day. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no announced future content, and no developer statements indicating further updates are planned. The original three-update post-launch roadmap from January 2023 was fully delivered, and no new roadmap or content commitments have been made since.
The game launched as a story-complete, single-player experience and the developer has not communicated any plans for additional content beyond what has already shipped.
Evidence
August 2023 update shipped with accessibility options, chapter 5 improvements, and new music tracks — completing the three-update 2023 roadmap.
Difficulty options update shipped (Update 3 of the 2023 roadmap), adding Journey, Default, Challenge, and Custom difficulty modes.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Kasedo Games
Achievements
57
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
With Earth on the brink of ecosystemic collapse, DOLOS A.E.C. leads efforts to find a new home for the human race. Whether by chance or fate, its prototype space station, the Tiqqun, finds itself cast adrift, a disintegrating ark upon which the remnants of humanity must find sanctuary – and you, Administrator, are at its helm.
IXION is a city-builder that requires you to be vigilant, to constantly assess and reassess, to learn and adapt. If you and your crew are to endure, you must confront the perils of space, while at the same time uncovering its secrets and extracting its resources. Danger, however, will come from within as well as without; you’ll need to establish, maintain and develop the Tiqqun’s infrastructure while managing the station’s population, deciding how best to answer their pleas so as to maintain their trust in you and the mission.
There are no simple solutions; your actions will have repercussions, now or further down the line. How you deal with those repercussions will be the difference between survival and extinction.
A population to manage, survivors to find, cryopods to recover... Maintain your crew's trust in the corporation that started this venture, or face failure and mutiny. Six sectors can be unlocked within the station, each able to house more population, support new jobs, and provide opportunity to monitor the crew with the Data Listening System. Will you bring hope to the people?
Who said DOLOS was the only faction to escape the fate of the Earth? Brush up against other pockets of survivors, navigate on from the failures and wrecks of others… IXION will lead the player through gripping chapters of story, where new threats and opportunities are presented, all in aid of reaching the final destination, a new home.
DOLOS are famed for their innovative technology, their scientists, but the Tiqqun now finds itself cut off. Find what resources you can, research what you do not have. Find new ways to provide for your settlement, construct new buildings to create what’s needed. Modify the Tiqqun station, improve it, forge ahead in this odyssey.
Space is a dangerous place. Hull breaches, overloaded power supplies, electrical fires... It is up to you to manage these risks, deal with emergencies, create backup power solutions, and enable Extra Vehicular Activity…
There are whole new stellar maps to explore. Send out probes to reveal what’s hidden, create mining and cargo ships to find resources, commission science expeditions to discover the secrets and threats you’ll find out there in space. Encounter other survivors and bring them into the fold of your mission, objective - survive.
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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