The plan is to launch Terra Invicta on Steam in summer 2021. The first will be to make all of the game's seven human factions playable, who could be quite different with goals like peaceful co-existence, leaving the solar system, and good ol' profit. The Terra Invicta Kickstarter hit its goal in under six hours, so now Pavonis are trying to fund stretch goals. But if you like the idea of a world where Terra Invicta exists and is nice, putting in cash would make that future more probable. $25 (£19) will get you a copy of the finished game, though I must stress that crowdfunding isn't pre-ordering (which you shouldn't do either) and many Kickstarted projects have collapsed after hitting their goal. They've been working on Terra Invicta for years and say they're "confident" they have enough funding to finish the game, but they "also have a list of things we'd like to do to make the game everything it can be – such as adding more playable factions and voice acting." So they hope fans will basically pre-order to help fund more bells and whistles. Pavonis launched the Kickstarter yesterday, seeking $20,000 (about £15.5k). "As events unfold and the aliens' intentions become clear, the experience will widen into something with shades of War of the Worlds and the Expanse." "Terra Invicta's early campaign might be characterized as something out of the X-Files, with agents of various secret factions trying to investigate the alien arrival while manipulating governments into joining their cause," the Kickstarter page explains. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The devs say they plan to release Terra Invicta next summer, but could use a bit more cash to make it fancier. It's a grand strategy game which starts with mysterious first encounters, leads to geopolitical manoeuvring as factions jostle for position and contend with alien influence, can develop into global war, then sprawls across the solar system with industrial colonies and spaceship battles. Terra Invicta is not XCOM by a new name, mind.
The studio behind the excellent XCOM: Long War mods have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help finish their own game about alien invasion.