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.

Microsoft Windows, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia

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