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XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy, tactical and strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and Feral Interactive (Linux) and published by Feral Interactive (Linux) and 2K.
Released on October 11th 2012 is available on Windows and Linux in 10 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Polish and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 56,136 reviews of which 52,466 were positive and 3,670 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount, but you can find it for 1.50€ on Instant Gaming.


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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *:Windows Vista
  • Processor:2 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory:2 GB RAM
  • Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater
  • DirectX®:9.0
  • Hard Drive:20 GB HD space
  • Sound:DirectX Compatible
  • Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
  • Additional:Initial installation requires one-time internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include Steam Client, Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, DirectX and Microsoft .NET 4.
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit required)
  • Processor: 2GHz
  • Memory: 4GB Memory
  • Graphics: 512MB*
  • Hard Drive:16GB HD space
  • Other Requirements: Nvidia 600 series+, AMD 6000 series+, Intel Iris Pro.
  • IMPORTANT: Requires 64bit OS to play.

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Jan. 2025
This is a PSA: Steam has finally updated their side and the game now works. You need a clean installation for it to work. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a great game, definitely recommend. Shame it took so long for Steam to update the game on their end to actually -work- without the Take2 Launcher.
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Nov. 2024
---{Gameplay}--- 🔳Try not to get addicted ☑️Very good 🔳Good 🔳Nothing special 🔳Ehh 🔳Bad 🔳A colonoscopy is more fun ---{Graphics}--- 🔳Is this real life? 🔳Crysis benchmark 🔳Great ☑️Average 🔳Ok-ish 🔳Bad 🔳From 1984 🔳MS-DOS ---{Audio}--- 🔳Composed by Hiroyuki Sawano 🔳Awesome 🔳Good ☑️Decent 🔳Forgettable 🔳Ugh 🔳Play with audio muted ---{Audience}--- 🔳Kids ☑️Teens ☑️Adults 🔳Everyone ---{PC Requirements}--- 🔳Runs on your calculator ☑️Potato 🔳Decent 🔳Fast 🔳Crypto Miner 🔳Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Story}--- 🔳There's a story? ☑️I mean... it's there 🔳Low-Effort Fanfiction 🔳Eh 🔳Good 🔳Worth paying attention to 🔳TLOU ---{Playstyle}--- 🔳Varies a little bit from person to person ☑️Weapons AND character classes 🔳Weapon OR character classes 🔳Creative AND Survival 🔳Creative OR Survival ☑️Melee AND Ranged (kinda) 🔳Melee OR Ranged ---{Difficulity}--- 🔳Plays itself for you 🔳Mouth breather 🔳Consciousness required 🔳Easy to learn / Hard to master 🔳Not so easy ☑️RNGsus giveth, RNGsus taketh away 🔳Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- 🔳Nonexistent/not applicable here 🔳Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks ☑️Not necessary to carry on 🔳A bit of grind 🔳Average grind level 🔳A bit egregious 🔳Ragnarok Online ---{Game Time}--- 🔳Can 100% and still get a refund 🔳Short 🔳Average 🔳Long ☑️Depends on you 🔳Bottomless timesink ---{Price}--- 🔳Just buy it 🔳F2P ☑️Worth the price 🔳Wait for sale 🔳Maybe if it's 75-90% off 🔳Nah 🔳Burning money would be more productive ---{Micro-Transactions}--- 🔳Gacha 🔳Mobile Game(Necessary if you don’t want to wait 15 weeks to construct a toaster) 🔳”Premium” Currency AND Normal Currency 🔳Pay to skip the grind 🔳Fashion simulator (Skins/Emotes/Etc) 🔳Only to flex on poor people ☑️DLC ☑️Belgium ---{Bugs/Glitches}--- 🔳Bug-free ☑️Nothing noteworthy 🔳Good "Bad" bugs 🔳Don't need to look far 🔳Everywhere 🔳Battlefield ---{1/10}--- 🔳1 🔳2 🔳3 🔳4 🔳5 🔳6 🔳7 ☑️8 🔳9 🔳10
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Sept. 2024
XCOM is an amazing TBS game. Ultra punishing and fairly difficult at least for me. Love the perma-death aspects. There are so many things to manage and feels like a couple games at once. The soldier customization is REALLY fun. You can change hair color, names etc. pretty much everything about how they look. Determining what to build in your base, what items to research, where to put satellites, what upgrades to give to your soldiers, what to sell and buy, what missions to take. Not to mention the combat, which is great but can be slightly frustrating at times. Game is excellent. 9.5/10
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June 2024
It might not have the depth and complexity of the original X-COM: UFO Defense, but XCOM: EU from 2012 is a remarkable new attempt at strategy and tactics games with just enough strategic interest and value to keep you going, but not enough that choices become overwhelming. There's room for both this reboot and its progenitor to exist, and both are among the greatest games ever made. Must-play.
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May 2024
The game is split into 2 parts - the combat and the base-management. I found that I very enjoy the combat part, but after a while the base management becomes very tedious. Mistakes that I made early on, while not understanding the mechanics too well came to bite me in the ass later and eventually made me reconsider even booting up the game. But the combat by itself is without a doubt worth a recommendation. The adrenaline rush you get when the last 2 surviving members of your squad slowly advance though last parts of a downed UFO is just great.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
9.2
52,466
3,670
Online players
969
Developer
Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Linux)
Publisher
Feral Interactive (Linux), 2K
Release 11 Oct 2012
Platforms
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