XCOM® 2

Good game, but it feels like a tactical slot machine. Guaranteed half damage would be a billion times better than this all-or-nothing system.

The easiest mode is still way too difficult. That is not fun!

Frustratingly fun

You should probably play this.

The gold standard that every other tactical strategy game must and often fails to meet. Core gameplay loop are rock solid but what really takes everything up to 11 is the workshop support. Even better is different enough from the first game that it does not make it obsolete. Absolute must play

I know you might be tempted to buy this game because of the review, trust me you are going to regret it, buy Star Wars Zero Company instead which is this game done right. There are so many issues with this game that it's hard to list all of them, it was probably good when it came out, because UX was not really a thing back then, but playing this game today it's just asking to be tortured by the God of pop-ups. You may think you buy a combat game but this is mostly a Popups closing game, the faster you are at closing alert, pop-ups, missive, messages .. the better it is. You spend 10 minutes playing a match and 1 hour reading a thousand messages, one more catastrophic than the other, and if you ignore one of them or lag behind... it's done, the game become unplayable, you stop progressing while your enemies go faster. Not to mention the combat UX, it's hard to follow, you don't have a list with your soldiers let alone your enemies, you have to cycle through your units hoping that you will stop at the right one. There is no logs, so in a battle with 20 soldiers in the field you miss a lot, few times I finished a mission thinking that I smashed it to discover from the report that I …