EDITORIAL FLAGSHIP
SERIES · ESTABLISHED 1994
XCOM
FPSRPGSimulationStrategy
COVERED BY 152 WRITERS
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Mike Futter, Alec Meer, Adam Smith and 149 more across 16 outlets
Writers indexed
152
Entries
9
Articles
204
Reviews
48
Outlets
16
9 ENTRIES
Every game in the series
★ Flagship
XCOM 2
2016·102articles
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
2013·46articles
XCOM: Chimera Squad
2020·17articles
X-COM: UFO Defense
1994·2articles
X-COM: Interceptor
1998·1articles
X-COM: Enforcer
2001·1articles
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
1995·0articles
X-COM: Apocalypse
1997·0articles
XCOM Legends
2021·0articles
WRITER INDEX
Covering XCOM
Each writer's count reflects their lifetime indexed pieces on any XCOM entry.
LATEST COVERAGE
Across the series
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Joshua Wolens PC Gamer·1 Sept
Okay, I wasn't expecting 'Rainbow Six XCOM' to be one of my favourite Gamescom demosST
Stephen Tailby Push Square·25 Aug
Rainbow Six Tactics Puts an XCOM Spin on Ubisoft's Series in 2027newsonThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Jordan Ramée GameSpot·25 Aug
Rainbow 6 Tactics Looks Like If Siege And XCOM: Chimera Squad Had A BabynewsComparison References sequel onRainbow
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Zack Zwiezen Kotaku·25 Aug
New Rainbow Six Siege Tactical Spin-Off Looks A Lot Like XCOMnewsComparisononRainbow Six Siege
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Morgan Park PC Gamer·25 Aug
Ubisoft is making the first singleplayer Rainbow Six in 19 years, and it's a tactics game in the style of XCOMnewsComparisononXCOM
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Ali Jones GamesRadar+·11 Aug
12 hours in, Star Wars Zero Company is a solid strategy RPG, but it's missing XCOM 2 or Baldur's Gate 3's sparknewsComparisononStar Wars Zero Company
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Joel Franey GamesRadar+·11 Aug
Star Wars Zero Company wants to be more than XCOM with lightsabers: "Gamers are more sophisticated now"newsComparisononStar Wars Zero Company
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Fraser Brown PC Gamer·11 Aug
Star Wars Zero Company is a very safe XCOM descendant, but its most interesting parts are found in its Midnight Suns DNAnewsComparisononStar Wars Zero Company
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·9 Aug
Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'newsComparisononQuake 4
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Sam Nelson Polygon·1 Aug
XCOM and Gloomhaven's creators say video game and tabletop collabs can save the industrynewsonThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Jordan Gerblick GamesRadar+·27 Jul
Star Wars Zero Company is more XCOM than RPG, as dev confirms there's no branching story or romances: "This is still a turn-based tactics game at its heart"newsComparisononStar Wars Zero Company
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Cameron Koch GameSpot·14 Jul
You Can Earn A $15,000 A Year For Mastering Your Favorite GamenewsonStardew Valley+ 2 more
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Mark Warren Rock Paper Shotgun·4 Jun
Star Wars Zero Company release date leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest, and its XCOM-ish star warring isn't too far, far awayOK
Oisin Kuhnke Rock Paper Shotgun·23 May
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Deathwatch picks up where Daemonhunters' XCOM-ish gorefest left offnewsComparisononWarhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Deathwatch
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Justin Wagner PC Gamer·3 May
XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletopnewsonXCOM 2
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·12 Apr
DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: 'I think when I die, I will still be playing that game'newsComparisononIcarus
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Julian Benson Rock Paper Shotgun·6 Apr
"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can learn from XCOM 2featureonStar Wars Zero Company & XCOM 2
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Julian Benson Rock Paper Shotgun·4 Apr
"I was chomping at the bit to crack the code": How procedural maps became XCOM 2's biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn't manage it in Enemy UnknownfeatureonXCOM 2
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·29 Mar
XCOM meets Rashomon in Vaunted, a tactical RPG where your characters can rewrite history from their perspectivenewsonThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Ted Litchfield PC Gamer·26 Mar
Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeathnewsComparisononStar Wars Zero Company