An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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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 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. 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’s first steps in colonizing our Solar System, where over 300 asteroids, moons, and planets in constant motion create an ever-changing strategic map.
Start your campaign in the modern day and build your capabilities from the ground up, or begin in the near-future and push into the final frontier from the very start – build space stations and planetary bases, quickly gain control of the inner Solar System, and prepare for the existential threat growing at the far reaches of the system.
Take your faction beyond the confines of Earth, building space stations to act as shipyards and fuel depots, constructing mining stations to acquire advanced resources, and establishing bases to serve as research or construction facilities. Terra Invicta zooms into the strategic geography of the Solar System, presenting space not as a series of isolated stars that you order units to move to and from, but rather a rich and varied landscape of asteroids, moons, dwarf planets, gas giants, and other celestial bodies creating texture and tactical opportunities at every turn.
The expansive map is constantly shifting as celestial bodies orbit the Sun. This means your space stations and forward operating bases are constantly moving as well, forcing you to plan accordingly and adapt to the evolving circumstances – your colonies among the Jovian moons could find that a once-distant alien military outpost or Initiative privateering base has suddenly become a close neighbor.
Terra Invicta explores what might be – how colonies on Mars might function, what plausible engines could power our spaceships, and the nature of how space colonization and warfare might proceed. Players may find themselves establishing a mining base on the asteroid 16 Psyche after noticing it is rich in metals – and then learn that in our world NASA planned The Psyche Mission for the same reason.
Exploring and eventually colonizing space will require access to many resources: water for life support and propellant, metals for manufacturing, fissiles for nuclear drives and weapons, and more. At the start, you’ll have no choice but to acquire such resources on Earth and suffer the high cost of using rockets to escape Earth’s gravity, but over time you’ll increasingly choose to instead rely on asteroid mining and other means of securing local supply.
Spaceship design in Terra Invicta draws from the best of scientific speculation and hard science fiction. You can design your own ships, selecting from an array of weapons, drives, and other modules to place on a variety of hulls, ensuring each ship has the right mix of fuel capacity, maneuverability, and other capabilities.
Tactical combat is built around a realistic simulation of Newtonian physics, where momentum and maneuver in 3D space are just as important as the firepower your ships carry. Fire missiles and use point defense cannons to destroy incoming projectiles; build up momentum then swing hard to bring the enemy into your firing arcs; or grapple with the difficult decision to retract radiators and sacrifice heat dissipation to achieve better armor against an incoming enemy barrage.
Terra Invicta is built with modding support in mind, and much of the game is accessible to modders without a coding background. We hope that the Solar System setting and geopolitics simulation will provide a useful framework for modders to realize their own creative visions.
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I really hate doing this, but it's one of those rare cases when I feel obligated to leave an unflattering review. On paper, this game couldn't be any more up my alley, mother of all 4x games, million in-depth mechanics, as close to a realistic depiction of solar system wide space economy as you can get without it being just a mission control sim. But all these mechanics are held together by uh... sheer enthusiasm. Took me five campaign restarts to even get to late mid-game, and it initial learning curve felt very pleasant cause there's always an assumption in the back of your mind that it's a "tough but fair" gameplay balance of absurdly detailed 4x game screwing you over. And now here you are, you have finally beat the early game race and... and it's a gameplay imbalance uncanny valley as far as the eye can see. Setting up the same 4 or 5 tasks to your 6 operatives every two weeks until your brain turns into white noise. Manually upgrading all your 40 colonies and orbitals for some measly advantages in economy or production. Manually retrofitting your entire fleet. Manually keeping track on every single alien fleet if you don't want to get jump scared. Manually keeping track of enemy operatives. There's no decision-making in any of this, it's just dozens of hours of mind numbing micromanagement while you watch the science paint dry, hoping you don't get bombed into stone age before you reach late game fusion drives. And that brings me to the last point. The enemy is fully simulated. There's no rubber-banding or anything, you can make a strategic error cause you're not fully aware of how alien ai works, and you'll discover there's an alien doomstack in low earth orbit 40 hours later. Not 40 hours of captivating gameplay later, 40 hours of worse-than-retail-job soul crushing midgame grind later. I really really want to love this game. I've had a blast figuring out ship building and other in-depth mechanics. But to be an actual game, Terra Invicta needs a massive gameplay overhaul and rebalancing. AT LEAST some way to deal with operative and base micromanagement in mid-to-late game, because for now, this is more of a combination of brilliant game mechanic ideas than a complete game. PS yes I am writing this gameplay review right after alien doomstack destroyed my earth defense fleet right as I was beginning to build my late game outer system military expedition fleet, what of it, no I'm not salty, you get good.
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After 2000+ hours spanning early access to first DLC launch, can I recommend this game to anyone save a very small subset of gamers? No, quite simply, because the game does not respect your time. Some light background on the development studio; they rose to prominence with a modification to XCOM EU/EW called "The Long War," which as one might expect, made a difficult game longer, grindier, and more difficult (notably, not more balanced - a successor mod team offered "The Long War: Rebalanced" for that...). However, "The Long War" benefited from having a base game where you could learn the mechanics (and die, and restart) relatively quickly before choosing to add more difficulty. Here, in TerraInvicta, a full game for a veteran player still takes circa 50 real-life hours to complete, and a new player will take longer and likely place themselves in a failure state 24 full hours before the consequences are felt, left to tease out what they did wrong from an opaque tangle of vague tutorial instructions and nested ui windows. Full release 6 months ago did nothing to address the new player experience, and after seeing the DLC (two new starting bookmarks and some sprites) it's clear the developers never intend to. Everyone who has modified Europa Universalis or XCOM to be more grindy is likely already here, so for the rest of you I urge you to stay away (unless the thought of spending a week in real time just to fail to divine the game mechanics or its "golden path" seems appealing). Maybe eventually a mod team will come along with "TerraInvicta: Rebalanced" and I can update this.
I have played Terra Invicta for a long time, because I love the setting and I always hoped there would be a deep and complex experience if I gave it a chance. I was wrong. Ultimately it is a simple game that obscures its rules and tacks on unnecessary complexity to appear deep. What annoys me the most is that the design philosophy wildly swings between hardcore realism and illogical gameyness, depending on what is the least fun for the player in that particular situation. There are three parts of this game, which do overlap (usually in an awkward way): 1. The geosphere You control agents to bring nations on your side, help develop these, fight off other agents and aliens, steal tech and so on. Despite being RNG-based, I consider these agents a good representation of the influence gained through a secret organization. There is strategy involved and the RNG dependency is not extreme, the player can frequently get into situations of 99%+ or 0% chances depending on the choices taken. However, the diplomacy between factions is basically non-existent, the diplomacy between countries barebone and gamey, so it quickly becomes a "paint the map" scenario. The geosphere is considered the first stage of the game, its main job is to prepare for space expansion - if you linger on Earth too long, you will find out 50 hours in that you lost your campaign, without being warned with any urgency. However, the developers seem to have a different opinion, so it is not allowed to destroy other factions on Earth, leading to a whack-a-mole busywork in the later game that serves no purpose anymore. In general, the complexity of the geosphere phase is more like a board game than, say, Europa Universalis. 2. Space industry The main challenge to set up an industry in space is to get the necessary resources off Earth. It takes enormous effort to transport metal and water against the gravity well. Then again, in typical Terra Invicta logic, this is conveniently forgotten if the resources are produced on any other celestial body except Earth. This means that resources on Mars are available without further ado in the whole solar system. But if just one drop of water is missing and has to come from earth, suddely the setup of a new building within a settlement takes years instead of days. New habs/settlements take years to fly in from Earth though, probably because ... the people cannot travel as fast as resources? Okay, fair. But if you now build a construction yard on a station orbiting the destination, suddenly the time for new settlements is down to days again. Maybe the necessary personnel was produced on site? In addition, the lore says that space resources are transported by invisible mass drivers between habs. Then why do the space resources keep existing in limbo if I destroy all habs of a faction? Also, new habs or stations are created instantly out of thin air at the destination, they just need years to finish. This means that an opponent can just decide to block a building spot on Mars, even if you have a fleet in orbit. Did the construction site and the scaffolding teleport there? And why can't I at least blockade or auto-bombard instead of cycling through all my ships every month to see if I have to whack-a-mole enemy bases? I hope I am making myself clear that the in-game logic is far from realistic, and also far from being consistent in its own rules. The Terra Invicta version of being "realistic" means that you can build on every damn asteroid in the whole solar system, instead of grouping them to avoid user interface chaos, whack-a-mole play and overwhelming visuals. The space part of the game is incredibly basic, I don't even know what I can compare it to. Settlement sites are rather small for most of the game, with not a lot to manage except energy. It's mostly "settle everywhere you can until the opponent whack-a-moles you, while whack-a-moling your opponents". 3. Space battles I have to admit I only followed space battles until midgame so far. Up until the lategame, your ships are essentially rockets that fly in a straight line. They have to be microed heavily in a godawful UI - and with any deviation of the meta, you will get your behind handed to you instantly. Again, the devs decided to be realistic where it's not fun and the other way around. Effective space ships in near sci-fi scenario are essentially rockets firing missiles and with some kind of point defense to get not hit by missiles themselves (think: the Expanse). The whole thing controls awful, especially with larger fleets, and Homeworld 1 had better looking space battles in 1999. And then, there is the overarching philosophy that you have to lose in order to learn. But not because the game is hard or anything, because it obscures its rules. When you are playing on your geosphere, happily uniting Earth, you have no idea that you are on a clock that will ruin your playthrough 30 hours later. And you also have NO chance whatsoever to find that out, even after it happened, without looking through wikis and reddit. Terra Invicta forces you to spoiler yourself and forces you to read hidden rules, because there is just no other way to play. The concept "try and lose, come back stronger" works for roguelikes with a playthrough time of 30min, not for grand strategy that prides itself with a 100 hour campaign. My impression is that the goal of this philosophy is to hide the simplicity of the game. Add to that graphic design straight out of the Nineties (just look at the bases and settlements, you can hardly tell apart buildings), the worst UI I have seen in any game ever (everything takes about 5-10 times longer to do than it should), music I had to mute after 2 hours, extreme performance issues for such a simple game (opening and closing UI windows takes 1-2 seconds on modern gaming rigs) ... it's rough. All in all, I consider this wasted potential, because the premise of a realistic alien invasion in today's world is really good.
I really, REALLY want to like this game. The earth influence system is fun, I enjoy vying for nations and developing resources. The intrigue of kidnapping enemy councilors and turning them as a mole. Everything to do with the earth layer is sublime. Which is why it annoys me so that the space layer outside of just feels... bad? The tutorials and explanations for space as a whole is terrible, and after about 3 restarts caused by space-age mistakes that I could not know about, such as being too slow to build habs, too slow to build mining at mars and finally not knowing what exofighters were, it kind of stopped being fun for me. The entire space-age feels like the game slapping me with "Gotcha's" that I'd have no real way of knowing was important because it failed to stress the urgency and timing on a lot of measures. To then need to look and see it online, and read "oh you should've researched this" in the myre of random techs you get bombarded with. On top of the space ship construction being so horribly unexplained for what is and is not important and what benchmarks you want to hit. I had to phone a friend and explain it all to me, and I still felt like I did not get the inherent systems and simply did the meta-strap of spam torpedoes because it just works. Yeah, the onboarding for it sucks and that's my main reason for the non-recommendation, on top of my personal dissatisfaction with the ship construction being so overcomplicated and a yearning for a simpler mode (the auto-build is ass btw). If you enjoy getting obsessed over a game and enjoy super intricate systems and enjoys watching external tutorials, this is a recommendation. If you're like me who prefers to just play the game and learn it as you go... it is just a tad too miserable of an experience for me to recommend.
Played it for a while and I don't know...not for me. There are too many hidden mechanics and redundant technologies. The issue being that LEARNING that something is hidden/ redundant requires investing COPIOUS amounts of time to hit that "oh, I should've ____ 30 hours ago. Oh well, I'll start a new game!" ...and then another moment of "oh, I should've ____ 40 hours ago. Whoops! haha wheeee here we go again!!!" No one thinks like this. No one has time for this. I've limited time to enjoy games and it bums me out that I've wasted so much time on this. Hell, I even watched a bunch of "how-to" vids. Some of the series are 37+ hours long. And they're not "how to pro/ max out elite status" or whatever, they're "how to play the game." This is the sign of a poorly implemented game. When it comes down to it, I'd rather play Rimworld. Or Factorio. Or Frostpunk or Total War: Warhammer. Don't get me started on space combat. It's atrocious. It reminds me of Warcraft (one. The original.) where you had to click and command EACH INDIVIDUAL UNIT. Horrifying. There are soooo many examples of "doing it right" a la Homeworld et al. Ground combat is equally awful. Having a stack of 6 armies at 5.1 miltech getting trounced by THREE opponents at 3.8 because of their "cohesion bonuses" is peak "wat." Orbital support from warships does...what exactly, other than make flashy impacts? I would think that rail cannons raining down tungsten rods or whatever from the atmosphere would WRECK anything on the ground, but I see nothing affected. All in all it's a game that tries to do too much, but achieves little. Now I've gotta reinstall Homeworld to wash the taste out of my mouth. I really wanted to like it, but a game should not require...I think I'm at 167 hours over the past month? ...to learn how to play. Overall feel very frustrated and irritated, like I played "I win!" against a toddler who keeps making up new rules to pwn me. No thanks/ 10
While this game promises so much, has great atmosphere, and some very cool ideas, after about 100 hours I have come to the conclusion that none of these promises come to anything. I really REALLY want to like this game, but I've just spent an entire day with it (after spending every evening with it for the past week or so), and the state of the game is no different now than 8 hours ago, or indeed 2 days ago. Too much to research, and none of it offers a significant change or boost to how you play. Too much time spent on building ships, only for the aliens to pull a fleet out of their arse that is 4 times as strong as what they previously threw at you, and deleting 2 years of in-game build time. Too much micromanangement, too little enjoyment. I really want to like this game, but I don't. If you like realistic space mechanics, go play KSP. If you like fighting of an alien invasion, go play X-COM. If you like waiting hours and hours for fun that never comes, play this.
I tried. I really, really tried. Whomever designed the UI is a sadist. They should find a different line of work, maybe as a dentist. I could say more bad things about this game, but the UI completely and utterly ruins the game.
Неплохая графика, хорошие идеи и бестолковая реализация. Не покупайте эту игру. Основная причина - её невозможно закончить на нормальном уровне с нормальной солнечной системой (не песочницей в три планеты). Я потратил 300 часов на одну игру, чтобы узнать в конце что для её завершения мне нужно зачистить от алиенов ВСЁ! 1. Я выбил их с земли, едва едва. Потому что пока ты их выбиваешь, скажем, в африке они "вдруг" присоединяют себе колумбию. Или малазию. Предсказать где они всплывут практически невозможно, у тебя есть 5 консулов (один улетел гейт закрывать) и это попытка заткнуть пятью пальцами решето размером с гору. В игре есть 300+ провинций, ну и чуть поменьше государств, контролировать их все невозможно. Да, унификация работает, как и отстрел вражеских консулов, но эта нудная игра может довести кого угодно до исступления. 2. Я летел к этому сраному гейту 3 года. Чтобы вы себе представляли - в исследованиях у меня исследовано все. Топовые движки, но большие корабли - тяжелые корабли. И если оставить хоть немного DV для каких то маневров на орбите так и получится. Ну есть еще вариант с антиматерией, но копить ее на отправку флота в 200 кораблей на край системы придется несколько лет. 3. Майнинг как таковой имеет свои пределы, ограниченные налогом на комманд поинты майнинг сетью. В принципе вариант обхода возможен - строим хабы только с комманд модулями, забивая весь контролируемый объем на пустых точках. Но опять - долго. А нет майнинга - нет топлива, нет топлива и вот ты уже никуда не летишь, ничего не строишь а копишь топляк или ресурсы на постройку. А хороший флот берет за перелет много... Короче тут получается что много где нужно ждать. Летит флот - ждем, взяли страну, ждем пока кулдаун откатится и там можно настроить союзы. И пока вы ждете, слуги с алиенами не складывают лапки. На земле вам постоянно долбят мораль на революцию, алиены берут себе мелкие страны, в космосе засеивают всякие дыры базами. И нет никакой возможности это прекратить. Никак. Нельзя взять последнего слугу, поставить его к стенке и пристрелить. Так же и с алиенами. Я вообще не понимаю, откуда они берутся. Я контролирую орбиту земли, да что там земли, ко мне от марса никто не сунется, но алиены как грибы возникают постоянно. Короче это dead end. Почему для закрытия гейта мне нужно уничтожить 10 баз алиенов в солнечной системе и погоняться еще за двумя десятками их флотов с силой 5к+ я не понял. Вот мой флот с консулом висит на орбите планетоида с этой базой. И что? И ничего, разворачивай оглобли и иди еще три дня гоняйся по всей системе за ними. Тупо, очень тупо. И главное пока я буду собирать флоты на эти базы, т.к станция 3-ка алиенов, обвешанная баттлстанциями как соплями имеет силу 20+ и десятком баттлов её с наскоку не возьмешь. Так вот, пока я буду собирать флоты и спиливать первую половину - они построят еще. Это просто, это никак не пресечь. Короче игра - симулятор борьбы с тараканами. Бесконечный процесс.
TLDR: Wide as the ocean, shallow as a puddle. Lacks a real interesting narrative heart. Systems are difficult to understand due to a lacking in game tutorial and simply overly complex. Unless you really enjoy reading reddit posts about getting systems to work, its just not the game for you. Hearts of Iron in space. The premise of the game is really interesting. Aliens are real and the world splits into trans-nationalist factions that then try to control earth and guide earth to do what your faction is aligned to do. Factions all have unique goals and the world starts ready to get taken over. BUT while the premise of this is interesting, the narrative of it is not. Factions are extremely same-y, to the determent of the game, with only really one (maybe two) factions having goals that significantly differ from other factions and meaningfully change how you play. The early land grab feels very cool, trying to figure out where to go and what to take over. This can definitely be the strongest part of the game, as your researching who the aliens are and getting neat story elements, which is where your factions goals play out. However, without significant metagame knowledge, your first game will have you failing at approximately this point, without a real "fail state" until about 10 hours later. This game does not have a game over screen in a meaningful way, so you can continue to play your essentially doomed game for another 20 hours before you realize you've lost. Factions cant be readily destroyed, so you can continue limping along for as long as you would like. The game simply wont tell you. However, the early game land grab leads into easily the worst part of the game, the mid game. Hitting space and gathering resources means you must now manage both the earth and stars, which can really slow down turns. Auto management of earth is basically out of the question, as automating your councilors will lead to repeated and ineffective strategy. The game very quickly devolves into slog territory, with repeated spam of the same missions to try and make some headway. Narrative beats basically fall apart here as research slows down immensely and probes slowly investigate the stars. Your first ships will basically only be useful at earth due to lack of efficient space drives and take an extremely long time to build. Its realistic but a massive slog. Interesting stories dont really play out in meaningful ways and without more engaging gameplay, whats the point? Ive never made it to the endgame (at 60 hours) or gotten meaningfully close. Ive restarted three times and I realize I just dont care to restart again. It simply takes too much time for anything meaningful to play out. Looking back at older reviews of the early access game (2022) reveals that much of the problems it had then are still present, indicating that Pavonis would prefer to continue development of the game by slapping more esoteric systems onto it, rather than sharpening and refining these extremely complex systems for slightly more engaging gameplay. TLDRDR: Neat premise, cool narrative or RP moments unfortunately lacking, game takes too long to play out meaningfully to 95 percent of players. Actual gameplay is so full of complex systems the devs have lost sight of the forest through the trees. Just go play XCOM again.
This is my perfect game and I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone. It's filled to the brim with weird decisions: A million different techs that are more or less equivalent to one another, a tutorial that explains what the buttons do but not why you should press any of them, a nation management system more or less designed to make you cook whatever nations you control, and a good half dozen other player traps that will cook your run. You spend a good 50% of every game convinced you've cooked it and it might be easier to restart than persevere in your doomed world. AND YET it completely consumes me every time! The way a strategy you conceived of literally dozens of hours ago slowly takes shape and then pays off, that feeling of crushing the aliens after getting your head bashed for hours, slowly strangling the life out of the aliens and other factions, it's all just incredible. If you value your time, and are unwilling to put up with what can only be described as hostile design, then don't play this, of course. But if you enjoy grand strategy with a truly competent adversary/s, a massive scope, and a true sense of accomplishment at the end of a grueling fight, then this is great. 10/10 no notes perfect game
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