Operation: New Earth

Earth has taken a beating. A hostile alien invasion is laying waste to the planet, and your advanced military facility is one of the last things standing between humanity and extinction. Your job is to build it up, level by level, until it is a juggernaut: new structures, new technologies, dropships, the works.

Meanwhile a meteorite shower has scattered Neutroniun across the map, an alien element like no other. Build outposts to defend your supply lines, harvest the stuff, and use it to enhance your armies and push your technology further. Whoever controls the Neutronium controls how fast they grow, so the race for it never really stops.

The heart of the game is other people. You join or assemble an alliance, weave a network of territory with allies, and lock down key resources and objectives together. Territory, dominance, intrigue: the fight for the new Earth is mostly humans fighting humans, and the aliens are only half your problem.

Combat is about choices rather than twitch reflexes. Raid, destroy, or capture enemy Heroes, the elite units that grant big bonuses, and train your own Hero well enough to take theirs. When your alliance decides it is time to end an opposition, you can coordinate a single stealth mobile strike. The politics around all this, who to trust and who to crush, is where a lot of the fun lives.