Terra Invicta

The aliens are coming – soon – but your first enemies (and perhaps allies) will be other human factions. Throughout the game, illustrated events will present you with difficult choices as you investigate growing alien activity on Earth. The starting abilities of these councilors will improve through gaining experience and acquiring control over powerful organizations like intelligence agencies or wealthy corporations. Enact your will through a council of politicians, scientists, and operatives sent around the world (and even into space). Could this truly be humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms? You begin on Earth as the head of a shadowy organization devoted to your chosen ideology. Terra Invicta has a global research system that creates opportunities for both competition and cooperation. Seek out like-minded populations and politicians and take actions to convert followers of opposing ideologies. Instead you will rule from the shadows and compete with other factions for control points representing a region's military, economic, and political leadership. The Resistance works to form an alliance of nations to mount a coordinated defense Humanity First vows to exterminate the aliens alongside any who sympathize with them The Servants worship the aliens and believe they will solve all the troubles of the world The Protectorate advocates negotiated surrender as the only means to avoid annihilation The Academy hopes the alien arrival heralds the opportunity to form an interstellar alliance The Initiative seeks to profit from the chaos and destruction Project Exodus plans to build a massive starship and flee the Solar System A distant anomaly, a mysterious crash site, and a spike in reported disappearances. From early sightings and UFO crash sites to rampaging alien megafauna and robotic armies, it will rapidly become clear that the other six human factions are not your sole competition. With the aliens' motives uncertain, factions emerge, driven by hope, fear, or greed. Factions can choose to focus on private projects, at the cost of weakening Earth as a whole and ceding influence over global research direction to other factions with different priorities. A veteran commander may make the perfect choice to lead a tactical team under the council’s direction, while an experienced diplomat works to secure the funding needed to resist the alien invasion. Geopolitics is your sandbox – unite or break apart nations as best serves your ends, while using those under your influence to conduct proxy wars against the other six factions. Take your faction beyond the confines of Earth, Left unchecked, factions like the Servants or the Initiative may steer the world’s efforts toward developing methods of social control, rather than propulsion or weapon systems. As your field agents investigate sightings and your scientists race to explore new fields of research, you will slowly learn the truth behind the alien arrival. Uncover the mystery of the aliens’ origins and motives – unless, of course, you are Humanity First, and all that matters to you is extermination. Unknown to humanity, an alien force has arrived in the far reaches of the icy Kuiper Belt and has begun mining a dwarf planet to prepare for an invasion. This is a stark change from most strategy games – in Terra Invicta, you will not paint the map with the colors of some chosen nation. With Earth’s nations unable to unite to address the alien arrival, transnational groups of like-minded political, military, and scientific leaders develop covert channels to coordinate a response. Terra Invicta bridges the gap between our modern-day world and the vast interstellar empires of other space strategy games, asking you to take humanity’s first steps in colonizing our Solar System, where over 300 asteroids, moons, and planets in constant motion create an ever-changing strategic map. An extraterrestrial probe is detected approaching Earth. From city building to RTS, space exploration to ancient history, see more indie strategy, simulation, and RPGs from Hooded Horse. You will control one of these factions. Lead a faction united by ideology, rather than a nation defined by territory. Public opinion is modeled along multiple axes – the Servants’ alien worship and the Protectorate’s advocacy of negotiated surrender may largely align in terms of support or opposition to the aliens, but events that show the aliens can be defeated have the potential to convince followers of the Protectorate that resistance is a realistic choice. Shared scientific advancement unlocks private engineering projects. Earth’s regions are modeled in detail, from educational levels and unrest to GDP and inequality. Gaining command over regions with great monetary wealth and military power can allow you to implement your will on Earth, but the war for the Solar System will not be won without also securing regions containing space launch facilities.

Terra Invicta