We are creating Phoenix Point by taking influences from the famed X-COM franchise. We are updating our favorite gameplay features from X-COM titles such as UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-COM Apocalypse that I designed, and mixing them with some of the amazing ideas Firaxis Games executed brilliantly in their franchise reboots, to create an entirely new game whose essence lies in the XCOM genre.
Today, Snapshot Games Inc. (Chaos Reborn) announced the development and crowdfunding campaign for Phoenix Point, a turn-based tactics and world-based sci-fi strategy game inspired by the X-COM franchise.
Phoenix Point has been in development for over a year now, under the supervision of David Kaye, founder of Gaming Insiders, and Julian Gollop, designer of the original X-COM. The team is also made up of developers from Ubisoft Sofia and Crytek Black Sea.
Snapshot Games is calling Phoenix Point a spiritual successor to X-COM. The game’s plot tells of how the introduction of the alien Pandoravirus nearly wiped out the entire human population. Many others have been horrifically mutated into beings who may organically clone themselves. As a small band of survivors, players will be responsible for bringing humanity back from the brink of extinction.