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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Strategy

Developer Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Linux)

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a 2012 turn-based tactics video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K. It is a "reimagining" of the 1994 strategy game UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as X-COM: UFO Defense). XCOM: Enemy Unknown is set during an alien invasion of Earth in an alternative version of 2015; the player controls an elite, multinational, paramilitary organization called XCOM and commands troops in a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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  • dropkickCHARNEL @dropkick.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2024

    girl are you a 96% chance to hit in an XCOM game because i miss you so much

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  • lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.comBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    the government should be spending one billion dollars to make a new XCOM game that runs on all systems including ipad

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  • lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.comBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    "there's a new star wars game" hard pass, no thank you "it's XCOM 3 in all but name" you son of a bitch i'm in

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2024

    If I was a billionaire I’d just personally pay 20 million dollars every year to make a new Xcom game and then I’d be able to play it and I wouldn’t even notice the money being gone and some people would think I’m cool for funding it. I guess I could also become a bigot because I saw memes online tho

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2025

    Maybe 2025 is the year I finally play XCom 2, which is notably a game that has been sitting in my library unplayed since release

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  • Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    Reasonably well known at the Other Place that I'm a gamer, but yes, Bluesky, I'm a game nerd. OG Fallout guy, also love XCOM, as well as many WWII and other strategery games. I just bought a new rig from @falconnorthwest.bsky.social too, arrives next week.

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  • Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.comBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    NEW VIDEO: In 2006 a Washington DC based think tank hired future lead designers of Civilization and XCOM to make a strategy game based on a documentary about nonviolent protest. 20 years later I'm here to tell you why. youtu.be/dmL7Ph4Us8o

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  • 🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    a few people have asked me what i think about it. XCOM games are often discounted at like 2$, get it, if you like it, then it’s XCOM/Fire Emblem set in the clone wars. It’s my fav SW game since force unleashed

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2025

    its pretty interesting and notable from a game-design standpoint that people still seem to really like the original Final Fantasy Tactics and XCOM over new games in the genre that have been "improved" with the addition of modern game design philosophy

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  • Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    *secretly wishing every single turn based tactics game was just more of XCOM 2 war of the chosen* oh yeah I just wish the game loop was more holistic, you know?

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  • Kayin @kayin.moeBluesky · Sep 8, 2025

    God the amount I would suffer if I bought like an XCom game or like Darkest Dungeon. Absolute misery. SO I DON'T.

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  • Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    I can't find the exact screenshot but on my playthrough of XCOM:EU, I had a late game mission where these five dipshits were all set up with 95% overwatch shots on a guy that my Support triggered. They all missed and then he Crit one-shot my Support. That's XCOM, baby!

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    There was an old article about Xcom 2 from Kotaku that called it the sports game of the year because it was very focused on managing rosters and doing a lot of things sports videogames do and there’s something to that because if you have a fighting game but I get to equip hats that’s also an rpg

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2025

    Things are bad but they made a game about Star Trek Voyager that looks like a cross between Stellaris and Xcom so things have never been better

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    This sucks, Gears Tactics was a great XCom style game, they could have easily gone on to make more in that vein, but private equity.

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  • Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.comBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    I'm still chewing through this (the devs kindly sent me an early copy) but it has my highest recommendation. The title is dull. The game is anything but. Like if Supergiant made an XCom game. Funky squad tactics about magic knights on mopeds fighting demons in anachronistic, very camp Italy.

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  • Remap Radio @remapradio.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Tactics connoisseur (the term just fits) Sin Vega on how overbearing the XCOM reboot’s influence on game design became, and the other directions tactics can go. remapradio.com/articles/sho...

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  • Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    There's an XCOM like game, called Star Wars: Zero Company, coming out soon! BUT IT'S RELEASED BY EA, WHO JUST GOT BOUGHT BY THE FUCKING SAUDIS MEDIAWASHING BLOOD MONEY FUND. FUCK. 😩

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  • Amy @amysnuggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    XCOM The Miniatures Game is now on pre order from @modiphius.bsky.social I had the pleasure of painting two of the Operatives. They were a lot of fun to paint, I especially love the Heavy sculpt. Fantastic models the heavy was sculpted by Ben de Bosdari and the assault by Joana Abbott. #xcom

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  • Amy @amysnuggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    Floaters I painted for the new @modiphius.bsky.social XCOM Miniatures Game. They were great fun to paint! 😊 #xcom #xcomminiatures #xcomminiaturesgame #modiphius

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  • Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtfBluesky · May 30, 2026

    3DS middle/deep cuts? Any of the M2 3D Sega ports. Superscaler in 3D is religious. Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, which is probably the best XCOM game

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Jan 29, 2024

    BG3 has me on some XCOM shit tonight if my hit percentage is 91, and I miss twice in a row, your game is full of LIES and BULLSHIT

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  • 🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @dollarpbr.gayBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    1) yes. 100%. full agreement 2) losing it at how this looks like the Global Leaders you’d expect to in an XCOM game

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  • Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vetBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    I earnestly think the game would’ve sold better if it had been marketed as “Marvel Persona” instead of “Marvel XCOM”

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  • Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    EVERYBODY, WAKE UP. THERE WAS AN XCOM GATCHA GAME

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2024

    Why the hell don’t we have a new Xcom game every year? It’s 2024, is Biden even trying to win?

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  • Kircai @kircai.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    How I long for a Redwall inspired XCOM game

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  • 🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2024

    Am not acknowledging the video game industry until they give me an XCOM 3

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  • Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2024

    XCOM: Apocalypse. Terrible, difficult game at a terrible, difficult time of my life.

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    10. Xcom 2 This is the big one! The game I've had on the long finger for the longest I think. I bought it back when it first came out. Now, the 10th anniversary flew me by somehow. I'd been planning to stream it, name characters after chat, and still do at some stage.

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  • dragonkid11 @11dragonkid11.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    Sometimes I think about Chimera Squad which has such a interesting concept as a Xcom game with fun gameplay but then also hits you with 'also you are cops'

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  • David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.comBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    The other fun thing about The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is that WE knew that Firaxis was making a proper XCOM game but the public did not. So the response was always "this isn't XCOM!"

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  • Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    HELLO MODIPHIUS WHY AM I, CO-DESIGNER OF WIDLY SUCCESSFUL MODIPHIUS BOARD GAME MASS EFFECT AND XCOM SUPERFAN, NOT ON THIS TEAM PLZ PUT ME ON THE TEAM KTHX!!!

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  • VGC @videogameschronicle.comBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    XCOM dev’s highly rated Marvel’s Midnight Suns is ‘free’ to claim for a limited time. vgc.news/news/xcom-de...

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  • Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    My dream video game is XCOM 3 with slightly more depth to squad relationships and base building and full mod support

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  • Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    they're saying this Star Wars XCOM game might be the worst thing to happen to my productivity since, well, ever

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  • Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    I have hundreds of design credits on BGG, and I think maybe a quarter of them are expansions I did not design, for games I designed. XCOM the board game only has my name on the cover, but it should also have Nikki Valens and Lukas Litzinger, who were more co-designers than developers.

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  • Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.comBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    Hey have you all heard that XCOM 2 is a pretty good strategy game

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  • Trese Brothers Games | Strategy RPGs @tresebrothers.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    I saw someone on Reddit referring to our game Cyber Knights as XCOM meets Ghost in the Shell, and that makes me so happy. 😄

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  • Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.comBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    Agents of SHIELD rules right up to the end did you know. But also, no two franchises have ever been better suited to one another than this and XCOM There should be an Agents Of SHIELD XCOM game that follows the events of the show

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  • Daily Black Video Game Characters @dailyblackchars.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

    Today’s Black Video Game Character: Dr. Richard Tygan (XCOM)

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  • Angel 🗡️ & 🧪 @helexzura.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    I’m very much enjoying my XCOM Star Wars skin video game. It has everything I want from a XCOM game and a good Star Wars story so far!

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  • Chili @americafavoriteboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    Xcom 2 gotta be a top 3 game of all time right?

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  • StrongMoist @strongmoist.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2026

    been playing this early access game called Menace and damn I really forgot how much I miss XCOM

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  • Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    Update, probably gonna restart my playthrough a second time lol. The long term death spiral in this game even in "normal" difficulty is so brutal and makes XCOM seem quaint

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  • Tycho's Games @tychosgames.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    Pre Order Now! XCOM: The Miniatures Game, is on its way in November with a Core Rulebook and Plastic Miniatures Sets. Take a look here: tychosgames.com/collections/... #xcom #miniatures #wargaming #modiphius

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  • Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.comBluesky · Jul 15, 2024

    Was just pitched a game as "Stardew Valley meets XCOM"

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  • Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    Eurogamer is celebrating XCOM 2's 10th birthday 👽 www.eurogamer.net/xcom-2-10th-...

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  • Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gayBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    👽👽👽👽 🔴LIVE🔴 👽👽👽👽 Its Back to the Front Lines in XCOM: Enemy Unknown with the LONG WAR Mod! This makes XCOM a WHOLE NEW GAME! Come Discover how neat it is with us! :D Questions in Chat WELCOME! ▶️ www.twitch.tv/pankraru ◀️ #Vtuber #Pngtuber #Xcom #XComEnemyUnknonw #Mods #LongWar

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  • PlasticChris @ziechris.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    Modern Gamers whenever they see a tactics game: Oh neat an XCOM game! #Blutoid

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  • Jaida R.L. Mack | friend of eggbug @jaidamack.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    I didn't realize the XCOM game would mean some really nice miniature options, too. I mean, look! You could have Nick Cave on your tabletop!

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  • TeddZero @teddzero.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2025

    I gotta get him Also I really like the idea that in Kill Team he's the final boss. It's very XCOM. Y'know, maybe Age of Sigmar needs an XCOM game...

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  • Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    ALSO, MY CO-DESIGNER ERIC DESIGNED THE XCOM BOARD GAME???

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  • Aver the Dorbley 🇨🇦 🫠 🦎 @averthedorbley.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    In any game, if I can't make a convincing me or Aver, I strive to make the least heroic hero ever. I completely missed Midnight Suns, brain mixed it up with Marvel rivals. So this is the next "XCOM" game sort of. Anyways, the "Chosen One."

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  • DerpsWithWolves 🐍 @derpswithwolves.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    ...I think I like Xenonauts 1 more than 2. It hurts a little to realise that. The second game feels... dumbed down, to be more 'user friendly' - but user friendly is the fuck not what XCom games are. It also is now 3D, yet doesn't really do anything with that. Like, at all. It plays the same.

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  • Biscuit Factory Games @biscuitfactorygames.comBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! We just yesterday pushed a lil chef tactics game live biscuitfactorygames.itch.io/fromagefray on itch! We think of it as "Xcom meets Overcooked" Would love to hear what people think of it!

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  • Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.comBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    XCOM 2's £3 (!!) store.steampowered.com/app/268500/X...

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  • Del-Raiser Cenobite @shrecknet.comBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    Warhammer: Mechanicus is currently $1.50 (!!!) on Steam, and is one of the funniest games I've played. They really *get* what makes Warhammer a satire, and as a bonus there's a pretty decent #XCOM clone attached. store.steampowered.com/app/673880/W...

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  • ScaryDemonBiscuits CEO 🎃 @localcatboye.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    Warhounds is a turn-based Xcom-style tactical game that is gatekept from being good by the fact it was made by millenials. Why are games afraid to have a serious tone?

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  • Tayo! 💛🤍💜🖤🏳️‍⚧️ @tayokee.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    My god, Xcom mentioned. That's how you sell a game to me. Yeah, I mean can't go wrong really. Cheers for the reply bud! 💜

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