While it might not have you fight against an alien invasion, the upcoming Mars Tactics is a turn-based strategy with quite a few similarities to the original XCOM. In other words, you'll have a vast array of tactical options and weapons to utilize during combat, the ability to fire anywhere and

If you've finished up with XCOM: Chimera Squad and you're looking for a bit more turn-based action to mess around with, you might be interested to hear that Gears Tactics has recently landed onto PC and Xbox

[Update]: The Gears of War flavored XCOM game, Gears Tactics, has now landed onto PC and Xbox One - just in case you're looking for a little bit more turn-based action!

Instead

[Update]: Gears Tactics has now landed onto PC and Xbox One, and while it's good, it's pretty darn expensive right now.

If you're a fan of XCOM, April is looking to be a pretty

[Update]: XCOM: Chimera Squad has now made its way to PC alongside generally positive reviews.

In a bit of a surprising announcement, Firaxis revealed that there is a brand new XCOM game

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an XCOM-inspired, turn-based RPG that released in 2018. While it did have some noticeable problems due to its mid-budget origins, they weren't exactly hard to

[Update]: Mutant Year Zero's Seed of Evil expansion has now finally arrived.

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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an upcoming video game adaptation of the 'Mutant' pen & paper RPG that has been kicking around since the 1980s. The whole premise is about as simple as

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an upcoming adaptation of the 'Mutant' pen and paper RPG that has been around since the 1980s. The premise, as you might imagine from the name alone, is

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an upcoming video game adaptation of the 'Mutant' pen & paper RPG that has been around since the 1980s. The premise, as you might imagine from the tittle, is that humanity has managed to nuke itself into oblivion, leaving the planet populated only by

The XCOM series is well known for its combination of tactical turn-based gameplay, often brutal difficulty, and a base management system that forces you to make some rather difficult choices. With that in mind, I think you can begin to understand the confusion XCOM fans felt when 2K announced

As you can probably guess from the title Xenonauts 2 is an upcoming turn-based strategy game heavily inspired by the old XCOM series. What this means in gameplay terms is that you will have persistent soldiers that become stronger from mission to mission, fully-destructible environments that

If you're a fan of the two modern XCOM games and would like to take a look at how all of it started, you're in luck as Humble Bundle is giving away X-COM: UFO Defense for the next 16 hours. Simply head on over to the Humble

If you're itching to give XCOM 2 another playthrough, now would be the best time to do so as the massive Long War 2 mod has now finally arrived. Totaling at 2.2GB in size, Long War 2 brings with it a much longer campaign, nine new soldier classes, two new weapon tiers, dozens of new enemies, a

Continuing the trend of DLC announcements that come straight out of nowhere, Firaxis has announced and then instantly unleashed a brand new DLC for XCOM 2. ...

Xenonauts 1 was a turn based strategy game released back in 2014 and heavily inspired by the old XCOM series. Rather than simply copy the XCOM formula Xenonauts developers opted to go for a much more in-depth tactical experience and even though it definitely had some flaws it was a pretty fun

XCOM and its expansion Enemy Within occupied much of my time the past year, the combination of slick graphics and tactical decision-making simply proving too irresistible. However, as I played the games for the second and even third time it became quickly apparent that while the early game

A kickstarter from a small developer aiming to make something big and ambitious? These are words that usually spell doom. However in the case of CreativeForge Games and their Hard West kickstarter they need not apply.

I haven't backed the game but I did keep an eye on it during

If you're in the mood for a large-scale strategy game that emulates the oldschool XCOM, you might be interested to hear that Phoenix Point has now been released on PC. As you would expect given its inspiration, Phoenix Point features turn-based combat on procedurally generated maps, a whole