The demo page for Studio Zero was opened today. It contains new pieces of information that are not on the game's main store page. This includes a few new screenshots and short clips. Also listed are character bios and some more information about the story. Given the demo's recent listing, the developers may be targeting Steam Next Fest for the demo release, which begins October 19.
The year is 2040. You are a washed-up genius hacker hiding out on the edge of the city — until one day, a mysterious android girl breaks into your shabby repair shop unannounced, dragging you into a deadly conspiracy woven by the megacorporate syndicate. Faced with bottomless darkness in the data, waves of gangsters and assassins, and four women bound to you by fate... every choice you make will decide not only who lives and who dies, but the fate of the entire city. Will you take the money and run — or burn this rotten world down for her?
The game apparently will have different hacking QTEs that require good reflexes. It claims that it will have "radically different branches" but the image of the story tree looks fairly linear with branches based on a few dialogue choices. The game might fracture more in later chapters based on affection or choices.
In the crossfire between the dark web and the real world, you'll forge deep bonds with four women of wildly different backgrounds and personalities. Raise their Neural Sync Rate (affinity) through story choices to unlock exclusive hidden scenes and top-secret character files.
The description mentions forging bonds with four women but the game features five. The M-300 robot has no tags like the others and isn't seen on the character screen or the group shot, so she is likely not in it much or cannot be romanced for one reason or another.
MoMo — Codename "Zero," The Mysterious Prototype
M-300 — "The Swan Meat" Fallen into the Dark Web
Liu Shiyu — The Fiery Fixer of the Grey Zone
Xia Nuo — The Ice-Cold "Black Market Boss" of the Dark Web
Gu Qingwan — The Coldly Rational Corporate Executive
Liu Shiyu is played by Zhang Yao (张垚) and Gu Qingwan is played by Feng Ruohang (冯若航).
Some of the interface contains English text already, but it is not unusual for these games to have English text beside the Chinese for style reasons. There is still no listing of support for any language other than Chinese.
