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Try "Xenonauts", a recent remake of X-com using the original mechanics. It isn't a direct port, they have added a couple mechanics in areas like air combat, but it is 95% x-com with better graphics.

My want: Xenonauts + TFTD. TFTD was the pinnacle of the x-com franchise imho. That opening sequence, and all the sound, was amazing. I still hear TFTD sounds being reused in modern scifi.



There's a Xenonauts 2 that's in the works, though it has no fixed release date yet. I have it on my Steam wishlist.


Well, if they are the "spiritual successor" to the X-com franchise, Xenonauts 2 will have to be horrible. If they called it "Xenonauts: Fear the Depths" then I would be hopeful.


One of the creators of X-com released his own game recently: Phoenix Point https://phoenixpoint.info/


But it's terrible.


X-COM: Apocalypse was also terrible, proving Julian Gollop was simply lucky and at the right time meeting right people.


It was a few months ago, but it looks like they keep patching it. I played it a few days ago and it was much better. Could pull a No Man's Sky.




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