This was just announced
Phoenix Point is our new game - turn based tactical combat - world based strategy - http://www.phoenixpoint.info
Exciting! I do like the “world based strategy” part as well.
So far, thats all we know, though, but thought people liked Chaos Reborn sufficiently to be excited about this, even this early.
Turn based? So it’s not the Magic & Mayhem remake that I was promised?
Nice. Will watch closely. Wonder if they will Kickstart…
I wish they’d add turn notification to CR already, though!
I remember reading and hearing Gollop talking on how Valkyria Chronicles was in his opinion the way forward for squad tactics games. and that he was designing a game in that vein just before VC1 came out. I really hope this is a continuation of that project…
Yeah, can’t wait to find out some substantive information about this.
That’s some awesome teasers.
I was never so crushed for a title to be cancelled as I was when Dreamland Chronicles was. I had the website bookmarked and visited daily waiting for any news. Seems like there was even talk of it being on a console, which, at the time, was like a beautiful dream.
Looks sort of post some sort of apocalypse from the website for the game.
Sounds intriguing. Thanks for posting this. I like the idea of interacting with other human factions. If those other factions prove to be the greater danger, a la The Walking Dead (minus the zombies) this could be quite fun.
Refreshingly honest about the state of the game, “and we have some “fake game footage” as we call it of how we’d like the game to look.”
Reminds me of Infested Planet. While IP didn’t mutate to counter, the mutations forced you to switch up your game, and it was brilliant.
Wow, I’m excited for this. Wasn’t keen on Firaxis’ reboot of XCOM so I’ll be keeping a very close eye on Phoenix Point!
Actually, it did, but only on the last level and on the hardest difficulty setting:
Ohhh, okay, thanks for the link! Infested Planet was so good.
Phoenix Point is going to be turn based though right? Trying to sort the reference to Infested Planet which to me is a RTS / tower defense hybrid.
Wowwow
They’re about to launch a Fig crowdfunding campaign for this game. I ended up with some kind of Fig “backstage pass” after backing Pillars 2 which gives early access to backing and exclusive discounted tiers. Check your email if you’ve backed a Fig project before.
Hmmm, nothing for me yet but regardless I’ll back this once it goes public.
Saw these gifs over on the GAF thread to feast on…
This link was mentioned for the crowd funding page: https://www.fig.co/campaigns/phoenix...S_bN6nDru9UjXA
And the pitch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTKPBNuTmwM
Edit: Oh and it’s also worth mentioning that John Broomhall (original X-COM music guy) and Jonaz Kyratzes (Talos Principle and Land of Dreams writer) are on the team now.
The campaign is open now (http://www.fig.co/campaigns/phoenix-point) and at 20% of the $500k goal in a few hours, so looking good.
I was already interested, but the production value looks higher than I was expecting, so I’m excited.
Ya, this look much better than I was anticipating. Pledged.