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.

Main story

27 h

Main + extras

38 h

Completionist

70 h

Released

2012 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player · Multiplayer

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

Engine

Unreal Engine 3

• Firaxis GamesDeveloper
• 2K GamesPublisher
• Feral InteractivePublisher · Porting

• EEnglish Cast
• FFrench Cast
• GGerman Cast
• IItalian Cast
• PPolish Cast
• RRussian Cast
• SSpanish Cast

• ESRBMBlood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence
• PEGI18Violence
• USK16No content descriptors
• GRAC15+Violence
• ACBMA 15+No content descriptors

• Action
• Science fiction
• Warfare
• 21st century
• achievements
• aggressive door-opening
• alien abduction
• alien invasion
• aliens
• ambient music
• arcade cabinet
• auto-saving
• bafta games award
• base building
• bloody

1. X-COM: UFO Defense1994
2. X-COM: Terror From the Deep1995
3. X-COM: Apocalypse1997
4. X-COM: Interceptor1998
5. X-COM: Enforcer2001
6. This gameXCOM: Enemy Unknown2012 · Remake
7. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified2013
8. XCOM: Enemy Within2013 · Standalone expansion
9. XCOM 22016
10. XCOM: Chimera Squad2020
11. X-COM AllianceTBA
12. XCOM LegendsTBA

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