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Kepler Protocol

GameApp ID 4,579,930by BoeReleases November 2026

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App ID4,579,930

Release dateNovember 2026

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Last update15 Sep 2026

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DeveloperBoe

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Kepler Protocol

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Releases November 2026·App 4579930

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22 Aug 2026

14:27:11NewsSix out of Twenty-Nine———Community

Community · published 22 Aug 2026, 14:27:11 UTC

Six out of Twenty-Nine

For two devblogs running we promised the same thing: the drill is next. Here it is. It no longer wins on its own — but it no longer loses unnoticed either. The Empire can win on Kepler in three ways. It can hold out for seventy turns until the fortress stands. It can storm the Alpha Nest — get in, strike down the queen, hold for three turns. Or it can fire up the planetary core drill and settle…

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2 Aug 2026

18:02:03NewsWe're joining Next Fest — and taking more time for the launch———Community

Community · published 2 Aug 2026, 18:02:03 UTC

We're joining Next Fest — and taking more time for the launch

In October you can play Kepler Protocol. In November you can buy it. Two pieces of news that belong together. The first: a demo in October Kepler Protocol will be part of Steam Next Fest, 19–26 October. For one week there'll be a playable demo — the landing on Kepler-186e, the first scouting moves, building a colony under a red sun. For us that's the more important half of this announcement. So…

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31 Jul 2026

12:34:19NewsThe Army Nobody Saw Die———Community

Community · published 31 Jul 2026, 12:34:19 UTC

The Army Nobody Saw Die

We spent a night playing 540 games against ourselves. What we were looking for, we didn't find. What we found was worse. Kepler Protocol isn't only tested by hand. We have a second system that plays the game when nobody is watching: two AI sides, the full rulebook, real maps — and a log that records every turn. Every resource level, every march order, every crisis. On the night of 31 July, that…

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12 Jul 2026

12:03:15NewsWhat Falls Does Not Fully Return———Community

Community · published 12 Jul 2026, 12:03:15 UTC

What Falls Does Not Fully Return

Across thousands of games no one died in our battles. The casualty counter lied. Not this time. A battle in Kepler Protocol is fought, won or lost, formations break — and afterwards, in the report, a number: the fallen. Across thousands of test games that number read zero. On both sides. Not one soldier who failed to come home. The formations dissolved, but the people in them went nowhere — the…

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20 Jun 2026

11:06:08NewsThe Swarm Matures———Community

Community · published 20 Jun 2026, 11:06:08 UTC

The Swarm Matures

We have dissected the Swarm once before: how it decides — no commander, only pheromone gradients. Today is about how it grows up. In one test game the Swarm tipped into a war mood after barely two months — the pheromone field glowing, swarms boiling outward, the brood chambers pulsing. An Imperial patrol pushed in, expecting armoured beetles. It found leaping predators. Small, fast, biting thin…

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7 Jun 2026

08:11:46NewsThe Core Drill———Community

Community · published 7 Jun 2026, 08:11:46 UTC

The Core Drill

For seventeen thousand games the Kaiserreich's greatest structure never once fired. The drill was not to blame. The planetary core drill is outright victory. A monument of Krupp steel and flux that grinds through the planet's crust into the Swarm's brood chamber — activate it, and Kepler-186e is yours. That is the design. Yet across our test runs — seventeen thousand simulated games — it never…

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25 May 2026

10:52:03NewsOrdo Arachnis — Where Command Ends———Community

Community · published 25 May 2026, 10:52:03 UTC

Ordo Arachnis — Where Command Ends

When the enemy has no mind yet still decides. In a test round of Kepler Protocol , an Imperial reconnaissance patrol observed a swarm-pack two fields away. The pack was heading north — direction clear, pace steady. Then, mid-movement, it turned west. No visible cause. No order from anywhere. We searched the log for a directive. There was none. There was a gradient instead: a few fields further…

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10 May 2026

11:34:00NewsMission Command — When the AI Decides Its Own Moves———Community

Community · published 10 May 2026, 11:34:00 UTC

Mission Command — When the AI Decides Its Own Moves

In an early playtest of Kepler Protocol, the Kaiserreich's main army stood in front of Hive Beta. Fully manned, in combat, pinned. Back at the home base: a barracks, a reserve pool of soldiers, the material for a second corps. The AI saw all of it. And did nothing. That was a poor default we'd built ourselves: one brigade per turn when the army had room. If not — standstill. No matter how clear…

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