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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For anyone who wants this style of game, but doesn't want to support this, Xenonauts 2 released version 1.0 a few months ago. It's trying to be more classic X-COM, rather than modern XCOM, like what this game is copying (and simplifying even more). It's easily the best of the genre I've played, and it'll also run on pretty much any system you've got fine.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Xenonauts 2

Eh, played the shit out of it and happy to give them money. But holy shit is the late game kinda poop.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I haven't played much of XCOM 2 or this game, but the late game of all of these games is usually not the best. Honestly, this is true for most strategy games. How many Paradox games actually make it to the end, for example?

It's essentially something that's impossible to balance in a fair way. Either the game scales automatically to match you, in which case your effort is meaningless, or it doesn't, and it's either trivial or impossible.

I just started a new game recently though. When I last played the end game didn't even exist IIRC, so I can't comment on it.