The game will currently not launch. The launch is killed when you hit Play and it tries to do an update executable. This issue has been ongoing for at least a week with just form replies from Steam and Firaxis. I would save your money until you can verify that this issue had been resolved (it is a great game if you can get it to run). I have not tried but from the forums it sounds as this issue is happening with other Xcom games as well.

XCOM 2 is an amazing game and pushed me to my real discomfort zone when it came to getting some of the achievements. I absolutely adored the journey that was this game after having loved Enemy Unknown for years and years, but as much as I did enjoy my time there was always a weird disconnect in some areas that made XCOM 2 hard to love for me.

Maybe it's growing older and not having nearly as much time as I'd like to spend on games like this as XCOM is an incredibly time demanding game especially on the hardest difficulty. Or maybe it's the little technical issues and bugs that still persist years later like the sound getting vamped up out of nowhere and destroying your ears or the autosave function not working properly so you lose hours of progress from having to go back before you even started a mission. Maybe it could be the atrocious client that was added onto the game partway through it's lifetime, before ultimately getting removed years later anyway. Honestly I don't know if any of these could be solely responsible, but just the grand culmination of many things. There is just purely a lack of passion I felt for this game compared to my love for Enemy Unknown. That's not to say I don't recommend this game, I absolutely do as this game does so many things well and is genuinely better than it's predecessor in so many ways, from growth of characters, mechanics, visuals, just everything honestly. Especially when you add in mods you can really push just how silly or serious you want your XCOM experience to be. This game is an absolute gem and trove of content if you put your heart into it.

Like a lot of games I get obsessed on, my heart was in deep enough to grind out the 100% and I put nearly 300 hours into this game, but for me this is where the road ends for now. While I enjoyed my time immensely, XCOM is a very demanding game, and I'm really looking forward to enjoying my time (and filespace cause man this game is big) in new pursuits and waiting to see what the future of XCOM holds from the sideline until it's my time to return.. whenever XCOM 3 comes out :D

I just finished this game for the second time. I originally bought it for PS4 with my very first paycheck ever. This game is special to me, so this review might be biased (I adore this game).

This is the most stressful game I've ever played. It is beyond difficult. The gameplay is basically 50/50 combat/management. One small item purchase can alter the course of your entire playthrough, and even lead to complete failure. One missed shot can cost you an entire mission. Even on Normal difficulty this game will make you think it's sentient and wants you to have a very, very bad day; but if that's not hard enough for you, there are a great few options to spice it up.

XCOM 2 is a turn-based game, but that doesn't mean your troops or the enemy can't take actions during the other's turn. It's like 5-dimensional chess and you're playing against several other people who despise you, so you REALLY have to think about every decision you make, no matter how significant it may seem. But
hat's why I love this game: hard as heck, it's not exclusively combat gameplay, great replayability, and incredibly well-thought-out design that makes it easy to pick up but hard to put down.

WARNING: If you're new to XCOM you'll probably lose the game a couple times before you make it to the final stretch. This means you can potentially lose a 40+ hour playthrough and lose all your progress; however, the devs were nice enough to let you savescum, if you so choose, yet also added a mode where you can't cheese your way out of a tight situation with a Jedi Archive of save files. If you crash and burn on a playthrough, IT IS OKAY! That's your opportunity to learn from your mistakes and start fresh so you can steamroll sectoids right back to where you were.