Many Pandorans in Phoenix Point are designed to have destructible limbs. Procedural generation drives the mutation of enemies, granting them the ability to learn. Phoenix Point utilizes familiar turn-based tactics mechanics, but with a twist: Rely too heavily on a specific tactic for taking down enemies and they’ll adapt to overcome it. Yet the real terror stems not just from their appearance, however, but their behavior. Indeed, Lovecraftian cosmic horror pervades the design of Phoenix Point’s alien enemies (named Pandorans after the virus), which ranges from enormous, crablike monstrosities to face-hugging parasites. “Lovecraft is definitely a strong influence there.” “I think there was a desire to try and bring back a little bit of that sort of existential terror that really stood out to me as a fan of the original XCOM,” Snapshot Games President and Co-Founder David Kaye said.
As the leader of the Phoenix Project, your job is to save humanity from extinction, fighting terrifying alien forces along the way. The virus makes mutant abominations out of any living thing it touches, and by 2047, Earth has been ravaged by apocalypse and split into conflicting factions. Phoenix Point is set in 2047, 25 years after an extraterrestrial virus named the Pandoravirus started spreading across the Earth via melting ice caps that had been housing the virus in permafrost. The game takes place in a not-too-distant yet utterly dystopian future. Phoenix Point furthers Gollop’s work in the genre by enlisting the help of advancements in procedural generation computing.
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Snapshot Games was founded by David Kaye and Julian Gollop in 2013, the latter of whom is best known for creating the legendary XCOM series of turn-based tactics games.
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