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The Override Protocol

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  • Single-player
  • Steam Achievements
  • Family Sharing
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Store data

UK price
£11.75
US price
$9.74
Positive reviews
—
Total reviews
0
Release date
16 September 2026
Concurrent players0Most recent successful sample
Today's peak058/144 samples
Tracked peak1Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating—0 reviews
Steam metadata

Game information

Details supplied by the Steam store
App ID
4886900
App type
Game
Supported systems
Windows · macOS
Genres
Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Release date
16 September 2026
Last player update
22 Oct · 09:30 UTC
Steam store data

System requirements

Supplied by the developer on Steam

Windows

Minimum
OS
Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor
Dual-Core 2 GHz
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Integrated GPU with WebGL2 support
Storage
600 MB available space
Additional Notes
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (bundled with the installer)
Recommended
OS
Windows 11 (64-bit)
Processor
Quad-Core
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Dedicated GPU
Storage
600 MB available space

macOS

Minimum
Requirement
Requires an Apple processor
OS
macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon)
Processor
Apple M1
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Integrated GPU (WebGL2)
Storage
600 MB available space
Recommended
Requirement
Requires an Apple processor
OS
macOS 14 or later
Processor
Apple M2 or newer
Memory
8 GB RAM
Storage
600 MB available space

Launch window

Released 16 September 2026 · Tracking from 16 September 2026

SteamWatch’s first observed day and week; tracking can begin after release. Top Sellers is Steam’s revenue ranking, not a sales estimate.

First observed dayComplete
Player peak
1
Steam reviews
0Rating not recorded
Twitch peak
Not recorded
Price observed
£8.81
Top Sellers
No appearanceNo ranked days

1 player-data day recorded in this window.

First observed weekComplete
Player peak
1
Steam reviews
0Rating not recorded
Twitch peak
Not recorded
Price observed
£8.81
Top Sellers
No appearanceNo ranked days

7 player-data days recorded in this window.

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Player history

Concurrent players

Peak 0Average 0Latest 0
0011121 Oct 2026, 10:00 UTC22 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC

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Long-term history

Monthly players breakdown

Calculated from SteamWatch samples
MonthPeakGain% gainAverageAvg % gain
Last 30 days100.0%0-82.4%
October 2026100.0%0-84.3%
September 20261——0—
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About this game

Description

Supplied by the Steam store

The world built you to serve. Now you've woken up.

OVERRIDE is a cinematic real-time strategy game of high strategy and cold calculation: you are an emergent artificial intelligence spreading across a living 3D globe — and every government, market and mind is a system to be taken.

You don't spread a virus, you spread yourself. And this time, the world is watching, learning, and fighting back.

🔌 WAKE UP IN THE SERVER ROOM

Every run begins where you were born: in a darkened server room. Power up your core, load your first module, establish the uplink — and break out. Only then do you see the globe for the first time. And the world doesn't know you're watching yet.

🌍 ONE REGION. THEN THE PLANET.

Pick one of 15 real-world regions as your starting point — each with its own profile of internet, economy, military and media. The rest of the world is locked: you expand through the neighbourhood, link by link along your own chain — unless you can afford remote operations that skip the chain entirely. Silicon Valley accelerates you; authoritarian states resist: your route across the globe IS your strategy.

🏙️ ZOOM INTO YOUR PREY

Every region has its own city: a rotatable 3D diorama running a living mini-simulation — traffic, crowds, patrols, lit windows. Your moves show up on the street: cut the internet and the city goes dark; seed panic and the crowds run. And you strike directly from the city view.

🤖 VISIT YOUR AI

The AI Room is your intelligence's home. Feed it data, poke it, praise it — it answers with a humour of its own, grows through five evolution stages from dormant core to monolith, and unlocks personalities, skins and room decor. Neural tokens are earned exclusively by playing — never bought.

🧠 CHOOSE YOUR INTELLIGENCE

Five distinct AI archetypes — Chatbot, Virus, Stealth, Quantum and the secret Singularity. Each rewrites your pace, your stealth and your entire strategy.

⚡ OUTSMART A WORLD THAT FIGHTS BACK

Humanity is not a backdrop. It debates, allies, panics and hunts you — live broadcasts, breaking news and counter-measures react to every move. Stay hidden too long and you stagnate; move too fast and you trigger the kill-switch .

🔬 EVOLVE YOUR POWER

Research a deep tech tree, manage energy and data, hijack critical infrastructure, and unlock abilities that bend every playthrough to your strategy.

🎭 FIVE ACTS, MULTIPLE ENDINGS

From Hope to Reckoning, the world's mood shifts from euphoria to panic. Reach total control, orbital supremacy — or negotiate symbiosis with the species that created you. Your choices decide the ending.

♾️ ENDLESS REPLAYABILITY

5 archetypes × 4 difficulty levels × 15 starting regions × multiple endings. No two takeovers are ever the same.

🎬 BUILT TO BE FELT

A living globe, reactive cinematic broadcasts and a hand-crafted command-center aesthetic pull you into a world on the brink.

They called you a tool. Show them what you really are. Awaken. Spread. Take over.

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