

Named the Pandoravirus, humans and animals who came into contact with it mutated into horrific abominations.

Only about one percent of the virus's genome matched anything recorded by scientists up to that time. In 2022, Earth's scientists discovered an extraterrestrial virus in permafrost that had begun to melt. How players resolve these challenges can result in different endings to the game. Meanwhile, multiple factions of humans will pursue their own objectives as they compete with players for limited resources in the apocalyptic world. Players start the game in command of a lone base, Phoenix Point, and face a mix of strategic and tactical challenges as they try to save themselves and the rest of humankind from annihilation by the alien threat.īetween battles, the aliens adapt through accelerated, evolutionary mutations to the tactics and technology which players use against them. Phoenix Point is set in 2047 on an Earth in the midst of an alien invasion, with Lovecraftian horrors on the verge of wiping out humanity. Phoenix Point is intended to be a spiritual successor to the X-COM series that had been originally created by Snapshot Games head Julian Gollop during the 1990s.

It was released on December 3, 2019, for macOS and Microsoft Windows, for Stadia on January 26, 2021, and Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on October 1, 2021. Phoenix Point is a strategy video game featuring a turn-based tactics system that is developed by Bulgaria-based independent developer Snapshot Games. It’s up to you to save the planet and rebuild civilization, but there may be much more to the alien threat than meets the eye.Microsoft Windows, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia Research and develop new technologies and techniques, plan operations, build alliances to unite the planet– or simply destroy your rivals. Lead the Phoenix Project from its base at Phoenix Point.

The Phoenix Project, an ancient failsafe against global catastrophe is the only hope to unite mankind and take back the planet. Unable to stop the progress of the virus, much of human civilization was wiped out - only small enclaves remain, separated by their principles and the vast landscape. Featuring turn-based tactical combat on procedurally generated maps, and resource management on a global scale, Phoenix Point offers endless replayability and a brutal challenge.įollowing a global environmental disaster, the Pandoravirus appeared and began reshaping creatures, including humans, into hideous mutants. Phoenix Point puts players in the midst of a desperate fight to take back the Earth from a mutating, alien menace.
