Gameplay & Features

  • Futuristic room with seven characters standing behind a glowing blue holographic table, engaged in a serious discussion, with dialogue text on the right side of the image.

    There are no right answers, only consequences

    Navigate through complex branching encounters and heavy moral conundrums where each choice comes with an associated resource or human cost.

  • Futuristic digital display showing planet Ravania from the Lycus Empire, indicating it is a large, barren, terrestrial planet with low gravity and a moderate atmosphere, and that it has moved to barren status.

    Manage, Prepare, Act

    Take constant inventory of your empire's holdings via resource management indicators, intelligence briefings, and direct messages to ensure you're best equipped to handle the growing unrest within your empire.

  • A digital scene shows a woman in a blue uniform with a white fur collar standing in a room with warm lighting, wooden furnishings, and a laptop on a small table. To her right, a chat window displays a conversation about responsibilities and experiences.

    They're All Pawns On Your Board

    Romance, persuade, or antagonize over twenty human and alien NPCs that inhabit the galaxy, each with their own goals, motivations, and personalities. Build the web of your future or get caught in its creation.

  • Concept art from a video game depicting a futuristic scene with a woman character in a uniform with a fur collar, standing in front of a display screen. The background shows a vast hall with glowing columns and several smaller figures, indicating a science fiction setting.

    Placate Your People's Qualms, Or Don't

    Once a quarter, open your court to the public. Meet with your constituents face-to-face and listen to their emotionally charged pleas as a result of your decisions. Offer them aid or dismiss their petitions—as is your discretion.

  • A digital map displaying a weather or radar interface with a focus on a coastal area, showing various icons and a lightning bolt symbol.

    Define Your Humanity

    Through a mixture of galaxy-wide laws, technological paths, and planet-shattering decisions, shape what the future of your empire becomes with one of over a dozen combined endings. Create a utopia of personal freedoms or an isolated faction ruled by religious dogma... or die trying.

  • Two characters in dark, elaborate costumes with white fur collars standing against a black circular background.

    YOU Are The Archon

    Choose from nine different male and female character images that best represent you. Select your Archon's history, providing unique dialogue options and starting stats for your next playthrough.

A vibrant galaxy

After centuries of civil war, resources are scarce, tensions remain high, and humanity is crawling out of self-imposed darkness. The warring political houses have agreed to peace, but schemes and plots threaten to unravel everything from within the Empire. 

Technologically superior alien governments encroach on your borders, each bringing their own demands and desires. The people look to you, the Archon, to define humanity's place among the stars. Will you usher your empire into a new age of prosperity or plunge civilization back into the cold darkness of space.

Relationship and resource management

Lineup of diverse characters from the game Archon

Relationships are integral to Archon. Every choice that you make is being judged by your allies, enemies, and people. When resource generation is tied directly to your chancellor’s and vassal’s perception of you, this creates a fragile dynamic you must carefully balance.

Your relationship status is an ace up your sleeve. As the most powerful human in mankind, leveraging it allows you the flexibility of managing major conflicts with the simple declaration of “I do.” Will you marry for love or for political gain?