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XCOM® 2

XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

Developer
Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Publisher
2K, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Franchise
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Release date
Feb 4, 2016
Store page updated
Mar 6, 2026
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

77.8/ 100

Based on 416 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 86% of 496
All time 😄 Very Positive 85% of 109,562
“judges all other turn based tactical games against it”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.48
Difficulty +0.48
“legendary difficulty humbles and challenges the player” (28)

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Story & World
+3.21
Story +2.49

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Content Volume
+3.12
Replayability +3.99
“mods make every playthrough feel different and unique” (26)

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Visuals & Sound
+3.10
Visuals +3.08
“production quality is great and feels invested” (12)

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Multiplayer
+4.03

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Community +3.56

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Fairness
-2.02
Balance -3.29
“random chance overrides tactical planning and skill” (44)
Симулятор промахов и фэйлов. Строишь тактический план, расставляешь бойцов по позициям, все в укрытии, снайпера на крыше. Врагов обходишь с фланга. И понеслась... снайпер с 80+% мажет, в скрытом наблюдении твои попадают через раз и то не в того. Ответ с обратной стороны. Плевать что ты в полном укрытии и враг стоит за пол карты крит 100% обеспечен. Твоя команда начинает паниковать как, только кого нить ранят и вся твоя засада летит к чертям. Игра считается тактической, но это только на словах, в итоге мы имеем какой-то хеартстоун, где балом правит один рандом. Как бы ты хорошо не играл, все за

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Tech & Ops
-1.82
Stability -3.23
“glitches with interrupts and corpse behavior, occasional progress loss” (19)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
30%50%70%90%
Feb 2016Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 490 reviews, peak 27/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 406 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English46%
  • Russian14%
  • Chinese12%
  • Spanish6%
  • Portuguese5%
  • Korean4%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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