XCOM 2 is a turn-based tactics game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2016, continuing the story of 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Two decades after Earth's leaders capitulated to an alien invasion, the occupiers govern from gleaming cities while suppressing dissent, and the scattered remnants of the XCOM project operate as an underground resistance. Players command the Avenger, a captured alien supply craft repurposed as a mobile base, deciding where to deploy their strike team, how to build popular support, and when to counter the regime's operations. Soldiers are drawn from five classes, each with its own skill tree, and missions emphasize guerrilla tactics: using concealment to ambush patrols, scavenging enemy gear and artifacts, extracting VIPs, and carrying wounded operatives to safety. It is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
Twenty years have passed since world leaders offered an unconditional surrender to alien forces and XCOM, the planet's last line of defense, was left decimated and scattered. Now the aliens rule Earth, building shining cities that promise a brilliant future for humanity on the surface, while concealing a sinister agenda below and eliminating all who dissent from their new order.Only those who live at the edges of the world have a margin of freedom. Here, a force gathers once again to stand up for humanity. Always on the run, the remnant XCOM forces must find a way to rise from the ashes, expose the insidious truth behind the occupation, and eliminate the alien threat once and for all.
