They try to establish a base there over a number of years, but they have absolutely no contact with any of the other cells of the Phoenix Project. Most of the members of this organization are not even aware of each other, but once activated come together at Phoenix Point. “It's basically a cell-based organization,” Gollop said, “which is international and stretches back in history. Players take on the role of a leader within the mysterious Phoenix Project. Various factions of humanity have been pressed ever higher into the mountains in order to escape from the microbial cloud. The action in Phoenix Point begins in 2057. The Pandoravirus’ genes had taken them over.” “Horrible mutations were going around,” Gollop said, “People were getting changed, while others just walked into the sea. Those who couldn’t make it to higher ground were lost. It was an airborne, microbial contaminant that also served as the network for the virus’ hive-mind. Humanity was caught off guard, and soon a deadly dark purple mist began creeping across the low-lying parts of the land. Before long, it had created hybrid monsters capable of crawling out onto the land. As the ice caps melted, the extraterrestrial Pandoravirus was released into the oceans where it immediately started attacking sea creatures of every shape and size. In Phoenix Point’s version of the future, Gollop tells us that the apocalypse began in the late 2020s. Phoenix Point will also have a fiction all its own.
The final product will of course include turn-based tactical battles and a geoscape-style world map, but also multiple human factions and battles against gigantic, city-sized aliens. While Firaxis Games XCOM series reboot took its inspiration from the 1994 original, Gollop’s game is more in line with his 1997 title called X-COM: Apocalypse. Phoenix Point is a post-apocalyptic game and the spiritual successor to Gollop’s branch of the X-COM franchise.
Gollop sat down with Polygon to talk about the inspiration for the game, and share new details on the ambitious, turn-based tactical strategy title expected by the end of 2018. His company, Snapshot Games, is launching a $500,000 crowdfunding campaign today on Fig. Phoenix Point is the next game from Julian Gollop, the co-creator of the classic X-COM: UFO Defense.
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