XCOM®: Chimera Squad

It has all of the bad of X-Com and none of the good. The RNG kicks your butt all the time like it;s suposed to in a X-COM but the reduced maps in size and the breach mehanic just don't allow any meaningfull strategy or way around it like the previous X-com's. I was thinking of asking for a refund but i think i'll just put it on the archive and slog thru this piece of crap when i have the time, or not.

Jogo maravilhoso, me irritei no inicio, perdi uma campanha mas quando fiz a segunda já fechei o game. Xcom simplificado porém pelo tamanho do game vale a pena demais o jogar.

Really not a fan of the character designs on this game.

Un spinoff curioso de X:COM. Tiene sus luces y sombras, pero es entretenido.

No es como las entregas anteriores, pero me ha gustado el concepto

Firaxis just makes my favorite strategy games. I enjoy the more casual nature of this title, and really hope that when they eventually do another main line game, we can learn a bit from this one. Might be an unpopular opinion, but as a spin off, it's pretty decent. Since its narritivly locked around pre made characters, they don't get perma-deathed as often. So to some, that might be a negative. But the older I get the less I want to constantly fighting for my life and save files on every game. I just want a strategy game that I can struggle enough on the first play through but still complete it without many major setbacks. I just enjoy the difficulty curve here more than Xcom 2. While xcom 2 is still the more full experience. I really hope the next in the series learns from this title specifically when looking to innovate on the formula once again. I got this for 3$ and even at 10$, it's an easy buy if you ever liked Xcom previously. Just play on the hardest difficulty if you want it to be more "nostalgic" and if you're an ironman player then look into the mods that let you back up saves. That might sound counter productive, but I've heard plenty of reports that ironman saves get corrupted near the end randomly and keeping a backup as insurance is not cheating when the alternative is killing the run early.

While it's scaled down in scope compared to XCOM proper (especially if you got into Long War 2)... It's basically bite-sized XCOM, and totally worth playing. It's also nice seeing a timeline in which we get to see how Earth is recovering from the invasion. ...That said, why did they make the Xenos sound 100% human with zero voice modulation type stuff? It really would have added, I think.