Phoenix Point: Release date September 2019

Phoenix Point currently has a release date of September 2019 on the Epic Games store (more on that exclusivity below). It was initially supposed to be out last year, but was delayed until June 2019, and then recently pushed back again to give developer Snapshot Games more time to “test and polish the gameplay.”

Phoenix Point gameplay trailer: see the game in action

Check out the latest trailer for Phoenix Point, featuring gameplay, above. This is from November last year. 
Phoenix Point is a spiritual successor to X-COM

The crowdfunded “spiritual successor” to 1994 space strategy game X-COM: UFO Defense. While looking at the world map from a zoomed-out perspective, you explore points of interest, interact with three human factions and decide which missions to take on. During missions, you control a squad of soldiers in tactical turn-based combat against mutated aliens. The aim is to repel these alien forces, save humanity, and find out what happened to the rest of your organisation, called the Phoenix Project.

In 2047, humanity is on its last legs. An extra-terrestrial virus initially discovered in melting permafrost has ravaged the Earth, turning humans and animals alike into mutated monstrosities. Most of those unaffected by the virus have been killed or captured, and only a few groups of survivors are left. 
There are three other human factions: the religious Disciples of Anu, who worship an alien god, the Synedrion, who have visions of building a new utopia out of the remains of Earth, and the militaristic New Jericho. There are also independent groups that you can find in havens—towns, basically—around the world.

Phoenix Point will have multiple endings based on which of the factions you ally with, and the story partly depends on how you treat each group. You can help them, spy on them, trade with them, exchange research and technology or rob them blind, and throughout the game you'll learn about them and the virus that has destroyed the world. If you want, you can ignore the factions and strike out on your own.

A couple of things set the combat apart from the recent XCOM games, though, the first of which is its physics-based ballistic system. Each bullet is individually modelled and has a chance to travel anywhere within a cone of fire. The width of that cone is determined by several factors, including the skills of the soldier firing it. Rather than telling you a percentage chance of hitting an enemy, the game will tell you the potential damage you can deal to their health bar.

The bullets will damage whatever they hit, be that an enemy, a squadmate, cover, or a building, and every object is destructible if you deal enough damage to it. 

Phoenix Point doesn't have system requirements yet

We don't know the game's system requirements for sure yet, but Snapshot says the requirements “definitely won't be too onerous, and there will plenty of options to optimise performance to run on lower end machines”.

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