The Pandoravirus controls the oceans, contaminating all sea life, and has brought humans to the brink of extinction on land. The alien mist and monsters created by the Pandoravirus have overwhelmed and destroyed worldwide civilization, reducing the remnants of humanity to isolated havens that are sparsely spread across the planet. Likewise, the works of John Carpenter influence the themes of science fiction horror, particularly related to the mist that both hides alien monsters and creates them. The monstrosities of this future world are intended to evoke themes of tentacles and unknown horror familiar to fans of H. Humanity was not prepared everyone who failed to reach high ground where the mist could not reach succumbed to it. The mist was both a microbial contaminant and a conduit that networked the hive-mind of the Pandoravirus. The oceans transformed in alien ways after which the Pandoravirus began to infect the world's landmasses with an airborne mutagenic mist. The alien virus quickly dominated the oceans, mutating sea creatures of every size into hybrid alien monsters capable of crawling on to land. By the late 2020s, a global apocalypse began when melting polar icecaps released the Pandoravirus into the world's oceans. 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. There’s a demo up on Steam if you want to give Phoenix Point a go.Microsoft Windows, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia Phoenix Point: Complete Edition is out now on Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store and the Microsoft Store for £24/$29/€29. Where the cold utilitarianism trained by XCOM slowly melts, and ideology begins to influence your diplomacy.” “Where you dread the thud of a parasitic worm dropping from a roof to the ground at your feet. “It’s a game where you might be exploring a site, bracing for ambush, but instead find an abandoned theme park dedicated to a novelty boy band of hedge fund managers called the Lucrative Lads,” he said. Jeremy Peel thought the game had “slow-burn greatness” in his Phoenix Point review. The Complete Edition has bundled all of that into one handy alien lump. There’s been a number of free updates to the game along the way too. It’s had a fair bit of DLC since then, such as the will-sapping mechanics of Corrupted Horizons back in October, giant flying monsters in Festering Skies in May last year, and the subterranean robots of Legacy Of The Ancients in August 2020, just for example. Phoenix Point was originally released back in December 2019. They’ve also made all soldier skins free, including ones only available on console before, and added two new skins: Aztec Priest and Pandoran Technician. To mark the launch of mod support, Snapshot have released their own ‘Custom Campaign’ on Steam, which allows for way more customisation in the game than was possible previously. Watch on YouTube Phoenix Point: Complete Edition wraps together all the previously released DLC for the game.ĭevs Snapshot Games say the ‘Hastur’ update finally introduces the long-requested feature of Steam Workshop support to let players muck about designing their own content for the game.
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