When I was a teen I used to play the original X-Com Series (1+2, then apocalypse and later even the less fortunate real time based sequels) and the first 2 were my favourite games back in the 90ies. Xenonauts does a good job in all of the important game principles that made the original great, updates handling and without overloading visuals. Hands down, do you even see visual surface after having played a game 20+ hours? You just see the game mechanics. I´m not saying that the visuals are bad in Xenonauts, it´s just not that imporant for strategy gamers like me I guess.

Awaiting eagerly the 1.5 Update that is to arrive in the next couple of days. It includes some of the improvements the very active modding community has come up with and 1.5 will embed them in the vanilla game. If you haven´t played, maybe wait until the update came out.

When I was a teen I used to play the original X-Com Series (1+2, then apocalypse and later even the less fortunate real time based sequels) and the first 2 were my favourite games back in the 90ies. Xenonauts does a good job in all of the important game principles that made the original great, updates handling and without overloading visuals. Hands down, do you even see visual surface after having played a game 20+ hours? You just see the game mechanics. I´m not saying that the visuals are bad in Xenonauts, it´s just not that imporant for strategy gamers like me I guess. Awaiting eagerly the 1.5 Update that is to arrive in the next couple of days. It includes some of the improvements the very active modding community has come up with and 1.5 will embed them in the vanilla game. If you haven´t played, maybe wait until the update came out.