Summary
Many games have come to Game Pass in preview mode and benefited from it. Recently, bothLightyear FrontierandPalworldcame to Game Passin Game Preview mode, andPalworld’s popularity speaks for itself. It remains to be seen how exactlyTerra Invictais received, but there’s plenty to be had here nonetheless.
Terra Invictais agrand strategy game not unlikeCivilization. In it, an alien invasion divides humanity into seven factions, and players must lead one to victory across the solar system.
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Once players control a faction, they will determine the fate of Earth before moving onto the stars and expanding across a dynamic solar system. The gameplay is very fluid, and this makes for some exciting strategic gameplay, especially with things are forced to change on the fly.Terra Invictaalso bills itself as a game where hard sci-fi meets strategy, meaning it aims to be incredibly thorough and systems rich, which is what the4X/grand strategy genreis known for.
Game Pass List - End of March 2024
Of course, hard sci-fi and strategy are not going to appeal to everyone. Xbox Game Pass is not one to rest on its luarels, and more content is coming on March 28.Open Roads, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, andDiablo 4are all coming to Xbox Game Pass, and they each scratch a different itch. In other words, between today and the end of the month, Xbox Game Pass has something for hard sci-fi and strategy fans, dungeon crawling hack-and-slash looter fans, fans of “interactive movies,” and racing fans.
Terra Invicta
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An extraterrestrial probe is detected approaching Earth. 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.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. With the aliens' motives uncertain, factions emerge, driven by hope, fear, or greed.You will control one of these factions.The Resistanceworks to form an alliance of nations to mount a coordinated defenseHumanity Firstvows to exterminate the aliens alongside any who sympathize with themThe Servantsworship the aliens and believe they will solve all the troubles of the worldThe Protectorateadvocates negotiated surrender as the only means to avoid annihilationThe Academyhopes the alien arrival heralds the opportunity to form an interstellar allianceThe Initiativeseeks to profit from the chaos and destructionProject Exodusplans to build a massive starship and flee the Solar SystemA distant anomaly, a mysterious crash site, and a spike in reported disappearances. Could this truly be humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms? 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.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. Throughout the game, illustrated events will present you with difficult choices as you investigate growing alien activity on Earth. Uncover the mystery of the aliens’ origins and motives – unless, of course, you are Humanity First, and all that matters to you is extermination.Terra Invicta has a global research system that creates opportunities for both competition and cooperation. Shared scientific advancement unlocks private engineering projects. 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. 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.You begin on Earth as the head of a shadowy organization devoted to your chosen ideology. The aliens are coming – soon – but your first enemies (and perhaps allies) will be other human factions.Lead a faction united by ideology, rather than a nation defined by territory. 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. Instead you will rule from the shadows and compete with other factions for control points representing a region’s military, economic, and political leadership.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. 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.Enact your will through a council of politicians, scientists, and operatives sent around the world (and even into space). The starting abilities of these councilors will improve through gaining experience and acquiring control over powerful organizations like intelligence agencies or wealthy corporations. 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.Seek out like-minded populations and politicians and take actions to convert followers of opposing ideologies. 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.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&
