
Forge alliances to stand united against common foes.

Negotiate trade and research pacts with other factions for mutual benefits. Progress through a vast randomized research tree spanning dozens of technologies providing operations, buildings, units, weapons, and more. Shape the landscape with terraforming, construct farms, mines, forts, and other improvements to increase the productivity of your colonies or to fortify positions. Your colonists will migrate between cities based on factors such as pollution and living space. Specialize one city to harvest minerals while churning out units in another. Operate a fully globalized and pooled resource and growth system. Manage cities by adjusting the tax rate, choosing production and assigning colonists to jobs. Found new cities to expand the borders of your empire.

Discover ruins and artifacts, the relics of an ancient alien civilization long forgotten that can give you an edge against the planet life and other rivaling factions. The indigenous life will react to your actions and treat you accordingly. Live in harmony with nature or use it to further your cause. There is even talk of a giant creature in the oceans. Deadly swarms walk the lands and agile predators fly in the skies. Survive encounters with the planet's dangerous wild life. Explore a new world harboring a variety of eco-regions, from the frozen ice lands of the north, to vast deserts and lush tropical forests in the south. As they spread, they will discover ancient ruins from alien civilizations that will grant them advantages over their rivals. While the gigantic monstrosities inland and at the oceans seem relatively calm, human-sized bugs and fungus are threatening to stop mankind's expansion.Īs the various factions strive to take control, each will research and develop numerous new technologies, discovering new weapons and industry, whilst opening trade agreements and forging alliances with other factions to gain a foothold. The most powerful factions have gathered their best men and women to send on a long journey to Pandora.įar from desolate, the earth-like planet has been found to host a plethora of indigenous life forms. Planet Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain.įinally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world many light-years away. Many have died and many lands lay in ruin. Private corporations and religious movements have started wars over greed, ideology and power. In the future, factions have risen up from opportunities and ideologies independent of governments.

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale.
