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VEXCOM

NEED TO KNOW

WHAT IS IT?

Turn-based tactics against a tide of fishmen

EXPECT TO PAY

$40

DEVELOPER

Snapshot Games

PUBLISHER

In-house

REVIEWED ON

Intel Core i5-3330, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, 8GB RAM

MULTIPLAYER

No

LINK

phoenixpoint.info

A terrible disease has overtaken mankind. The Pandoravirus, an alien threat that’s mutating and twisting our world into one controlled by swarms of hybrid creatures emerging from the seas. Society has collapsed and new social movements have risen. A few rogue military operatives seek to revive an old initiative dedicated to securing the future. It will not be easy, as Phoenix Point chooses strategic complexity over tactical simplicity.

In this, is very much a successor to the original —unsurprisingly, as it’s designed by series creator Julian Gollop. In terms of core design, turn-based tactics games don’t get much better than . To my chagrin, they also don’t

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