XCOM: Enemy Unknown
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactics game with a strategic management layer, and a reimagining of the 1994 strategy title UFO: Enemy Unknown. Players lead a squad of soldiers through turn-based combat missions against alien forces, using cover, positioning, and class-based abilities, where fallen soldiers can be lost permanently. Between missions, players oversee a central base: researching recovered alien technology, building facilities, managing funds, and deciding which global threats to respond to as they try to keep member nations from abandoning the project.
83Wit Score
N/APlaying Now
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DeveloperFiraxis Games
Publisher2K Games, Feral Interactive
ReleasedOctober 9, 2012
StatusReleased
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SeriesXCOM
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Highly Recommended83/100
About This Game
In an alternate 2015, Earth faces an unprecedented extraterrestrial assault that compels the world's nations to establish XCOM, a unified military-scientific coalition devoted to planetary defense. As the organization's commander, the player must lead tactical operations against technologically superior invaders while simultaneously researching alien biology and weaponry to reverse-engineer their technology for humanity's advantage. Caught between immediate battlefield survival and the long-term intelligence race, XCOM stands as humanity's last hope against an enemy whose true motives remain shrouded in mystery.