Unidentified

"'Just a month ago, it seemed that a third world war was going to become reality. Nearly every nation was developing nuclear weaponry, fallout shelters, war vehicles, and safety procedures to keep at least some of their population safe. Russia, China and the now Divided States of America in particular were preparing to launch thermonuclear blasts at one another, surely wiping out all life in their continents. It seemed that the war was defined in stone, and absolutely nothing would stop it from happening.""Then something did.""Lifeforms from beyond our solar system came from the sky, without the slightest warning. As the governments of the world scrambled together to fight back, the alien ships began destroying not only each other, but also Earth. Entire cities were wiped clean off the map by UFOs filled with legions of snake and insect-like aliens. Technologically advanced invaders dropped down to open fire on civilians in small country towns, slaughtering them while leaving behind human-like creatures to take their places and infiltrate governments and militias before killing them from the inside out. Monsters from the depths of a Lovecraftian nightmare emerged from the shadows, destroying buildings and woodlands while eating any Earthly lifeform that came across them. Beasts emerged from the seas, attacking beaches and stealing technology while slaughtering humans and animals in droves. Portals and vortexes began to open, and from them … things … began emerging and attacking humanity with technology that looked like it was made from alien flesh.""Even with the five alien factions also viciously attacking and killing one another, humanity was the main target. Within that one week, named 'the Days of Darkness' by survivors, roughly 10% of the human race was wiped out. All the nuclear missiles in the world were deployed into the skies, taking down many alien ships, but more kept emerging. Then, just as suddenly as they came, they left. Intercepting their radio transmissions, human forces were able to deduce that they would be returning soon to finish what they had started. They had destroyed our cities. Our security. Our place in the universe.""But not our strength.""A war had indeed started, but not a world war - rather, a war between worlds. The armies and militias of the Earth have all united against a common enemy, dedicated to developing new technologies and taking down the aliens whenever possible. While the invaders are all at each other's throats, they all share a single common objective - the complete eradication of our race. This will not occur. We will fight until our last stand.""You are in charge of our efforts, Commander. Do not fail us.'""- Official manual description"Unidentified is a real-time strategy survival horror action-adventure role-playing game concept by Red-Verse-Writer, heavily inspired by Xenonauts, UFO: Alien Invasion and the X-COM and UFO: After series. In the game, the player takes the role of the commander of Earth's united military after a alien attack by five different alien empires led to the destruction of most of society and the deaths of roughly 15% (roughly 1.17 billion people) of the Earth's human population. The alien empires are hostile towards both humanity and one another, and wage wars against all other factions as the player guides the forces of Earth to overcome the alien threats and rebuild civilisation.

Gameplay
Unidentified is built around expanding the gameplay and concepts of the X-COM-inspired games before it. Combining role-playing and real-time strategy elements with 4X-style gameplay, action-adventure first-person shooter combat, and survival focuses, the game features the player controlling the Earth's military force through multiple different perspectives. The player is given control over a single underground base with a small group of soldiers and larger teams of non-combatants, such as scientists, technicians and managers, and must direct research, manufacturing, base defences and construction of new facilities in it, and soldier training.

Geoscape
Like X-COM, Xenonauts and UFO, Unidentified features a Geoscape, a global view of the Earth from space. From here, the player can outfit troops and aircraft with equipment and weapons, launch interceptors to attack UFOs, track planes and troop carriers, and select locations over which to position satellites for radio coverage.