XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012)

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.

Release date

October 9, 2012

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical

Developer

Firaxis Games

Publisher

2K Games, Feral Interactive

Metacritic Metascore: 89.

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