An official remake of the game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, was created by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games in 2012. It was the first and best-received entry in the X-COM series and has directly inspired several similar games, including UFO: Alien Invasion, UFO: Extraterrestrials and Xenonauts. The game received strong reviews and was commercially successful, acquiring a cult following among strategy fans several publications have listed X-COM: UFO Defense as one of the best video games ever made, including IGN ranking it as the best PC game of all time in 2007. At strategic scale, the player directs the research and development of new technologies, builds and expands X-COM's bases, manages the organization's finances and personnel, and monitors and responds to UFO activity. Through the game, the player is tasked with issuing orders to individual X-COM troops in a series of turn-based tactical missions. The player takes the role of commander of X-COM – an international paramilitary organization secretly defending Earth from an alien invasion. Originally planned by Julian Gollop as a sequel to Mythos Games' 1988 Laser Squad, the game mixes real-time management simulation with turn-based tactics. It was published by MicroProse for MS-DOS and Amiga computers, the Amiga CD32 console, and the PlayStation. The father of the franchise, Julian Gollop himself, is working on an ambitious new title called Phoenix Point.X-COM: UFO Defense (known as UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe) is a 1994 science fiction strategy video game developed by Mythos Games and MicroProse. Goldhawk isn’t the only team working on another XCOM-inspired title. This demo requires GoG Galaxy to download and will not grant a copy of the final game.” “A very early build of the game intended for gameplay and stability testing. “This is the free public pre-alpha of Xenonauts 2,” Goldhawk states on GoG. The screenshots below look much more modern, but with the same rough edges as the classic bug-hunting game. Xenonauts 2 has been in the works for some time now, and Goldhawk has clearly gotten with the program and upgraded to a fully 3D style. For me personally, a huge XCOM and turn-based strategy fan, it was not my jam. The result was the first Xenonauts, a very complex game built with a defiantly two-dimensional art style. But instead of making something glossy in the Unreal Engine, it went much more old school.
Way back before Firaxis announced it was rebooting the XCOM franchise, a little company called Goldhawk Interactive was doing the same thing. You can download it and play it right now. Xenonauts 2, the sequel to the spiritual successor of the original X-COM: UFO Defense, has quietly released a free demo on GoG.com.
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