Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment today unveiled Earth vs Mars, a smaller-scale sci-fi turn-based strategy game.
Self-published, following the developer’s split from Sega, the title tasks us with defending Earth against a Martian invasion which sees deceptively colorful “high-tech saucers, grav-tanks and elite alien warriors” wreaking havoc.
Earth vs Mars Announcement
We’ll do so using Splice-O-Tron technology, which allows us to recruit creature-human hybrid supersoldiers that join regular military units in the battle for survival.
“Rain acid from the skies with the fast-moving cheetah-fly. Charge through enemy lines with devastating human-rhino hybrids. Or strike from the forests with your deadly squirrel-cow infantry,” reads the game’s freshly-unveiled Steam page.
New types of creature, upgrades and “game-changing commander abilities” become available as we progress through Earth vs Mars’ campaign – which promises more than 30 hand-crafted missions –, but the alien forces also evolve to match our advancements.
We’ll also be able to master both factions in online multiplayer while a versus mode lets us battle the AI on custom maps. Furthermore, the title also launches with a map editor, allowing us to create our own custom maps.
Earth vs Mars is slated to launch during summer 2025 as the first “Indie-style Relic Labs game.” These smaller projects allow the developer “to explore new sub-genres, experiment, get our creative juices going, and release games more frequently”. At the same time, it also works to support and develop the bigger, more traditional real-time strategy games that earned the studio its fame.
For a look at how Earth vs Mars plays, check out its reveal trailer, which was first featured on IGN, below.
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