EDITORIAL FLAGSHIP
SERIES · ESTABLISHED 1994
X-COM
FPSRPGSimulationStrategy
COVERED BY 128 WRITERS
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AM
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Mike Futter, Alec Meer, Ben Reeves and 125 more across 16 outlets
Writers indexed
128
Entries
9
Articles
140
Reviews
41
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 X-COM
Each writer's count reflects their lifetime indexed pieces on any X-COM entry.
LATEST COVERAGE
Across the series
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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 Babynews References sequel onRainbow
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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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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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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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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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Zack Zwiezen Kotaku·26 Mar
Star Wars Zero Company: Everything We Know About The XCOM-Inspired Strategy GamenewsonStar Wars Zero Company
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·7 Feb
XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis' masterful sequelnewsonXCOM 2
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·7 Feb
219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games' director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PCnewsonXCOM 2
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Connor Makar Eurogamer·7 Feb
Happy 10th birthday, XCOM 2, the most brilliant, frustrating game of its timefeatureonXCOM 2
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Andrew Brown GamesRadar+·5 Feb
10 years later and with no XCOM 3 in sight, I'm in love with XCOM 2 now more than evernewsonXCOM 2
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Robin Valentine PC Gamer·17 Jan
Only diehard XCOM fans will have a chance at beating our latest quiznewsonXCOM 2
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Rick Lane PC Gamer·10 Jan
If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early accessnewsComparisononTerra Invicta
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Dustin Bailey GamesRadar+·6 Jan
After 9 years in development and 3 years in early access, sci-fi grand strategy game from the devs behind XCOM's beloved Long War mod launches in 1.0 to 87% "Very Positive" Steam reviewsnewsonThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Jody MacGregor PC Gamer·4 Nov 2025
If you don't already own XCOM 2 or Midnight Suns for some reason, they're part of a big Firaxis Steam sale right now along with a bunch of other strategy greatsnewsonXCOM 2
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Ali Jones GamesRadar+·15 Oct 2025
I never really vibed with XCOM 2, but this Steam Next Fest demo is a turn-based strategy RPG I can finally get behindnewsonXCOM 2
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Fraser Brown PC Gamer·23 Sept 2025
X-COM's creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a 'very difficult project'newsonThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified