XCOM 2 cover art

XCOM 2

2016 · Firaxis Games · ~40h to finish

You do not lose fights here, you lose campaigns — and usually about three missions before you notice.

strategytacticsPCNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 88
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty6.4PUNISHING

Sustained pressure. Progress is earned.

Price on Steam

$19.99

USD · United States · checked 2h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
8.8
Punishment
6.3
Learning Curve
5.6
Obscurity
4.0
Grind
3.3
Puzzle
3.0
Reaction
0.3
Execution
0.3
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Punishment drops 1.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Learning Curve drops 0.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.9 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 25% · ~8hStrategy

    the campaign timer that has been running since before you noticed it existed

    36
  2. 45% · ~16hPunishment

    the mission type that destroys squads which try to fight fairly

    37
  3. 60% · ~22hStrategy

    the death spiral, which starts the week your best squad gets hurt at the same time

    13

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Four levels; Ironman disables saving and is a separate toggle.
  • Save anywhere [unsourced]Available on every difficulty unless you opt into Ironman.

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

  • Replayable tutorials & glossary [unsourced]Full in-game encyclopaedia of units, weapons and abilities.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A turn-based tactics game about an insurgency against an alien occupation, combining squad missions with a strategic layer of research, engineering and a global doomsday clock.

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