XCOM® 2

The Experience: Strengths and Weaknesses Strengths: Tactical Brilliance: The interplay of combat, strategy, and soldier progression is engrossing and rewarding. Replayability: Procedural maps and mods make every campaign feel new. Emotional Stakes: Permadeath and customization forge a bond with your squad. Thematic Depth: The guerrilla warfare angle sets it apart from typical sci-fi strategy games. Weaknesses: Learning Curve: The complexity and difficulty can overwhelm beginners. Mission Repetition: Over long playthroughs, some objectives feel repetitive despite the varied maps. Final Verdict XCOM 2 is a triumph for strategy fans, refining the formula of XCOM: Enemy Unknown with a darker tone, smarter mechanics, and endless customization. Its core elements—turn-based combat, strategic management, procedural generation, and permadeath—blend into a challenging yet addictive experience. While it stumbles with technical issues and a steep entry barrier, the payoff is worth it for those willing to invest the time. Whether you’re outsmarting aliens in a nail-biting ambush or mourning a fallen soldier, XCOM 2 delivers a rollercoaster of tension and triumph. It’s not just a game—it’s a war you’ll fight again and again.

Tough, but that is what makes it fun. Take your time and don't make dumb mistakes!

The gold standard for squad based grid shooters.

Great game, an improvement over Enemy Unkown and Enemy Within in most ways, especially with the Big dlc pack, War of the Chosen, this is a massive game with a ton of improvements and alot of added weaponry, abilities, units, etc. Can't reccomend it enough, awesome game if you like X-com. especially. The aliens won in the first game and have taken over earth. They have half human/half alien hybrids now on top of new aliens themselves. You are part of the resistance, fighting to ovefthrow the alien invaders from earth.

Good tactial and for me very important turn based game.