Great XCOM alternative with its own identity
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“It's like XCom with less polish, but with some better features. Namely, the free aim and that enemies don't activate in pods.”
Steam review · 222 h played ↗
Phoenix Point
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Mostly Positive · 73%Mostly Positive · 73%Snapshot Games Inc.2020Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy · RPG
$24.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 3 h ago
The verdict
A deep, flawed XCOM-like with excellent free-aim ballistics and limb targeting, but repetitive missions, sidegrade-only progression and geoscape busywork. Skip if you want XCOM-level polish.
Great for
XCOM fans who want deeper systems, free-aim shooting and build tinkering, ideally with the Terror from the Void mod
Main risk
Mid-to-late game turns into repetitive missions and geoscape micromanagement with weak, sidegrade-only progression
What players love
Free-aim ballistics and limb targeting
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Instead of a dice roll telling you that a point-blank shotgun blast somehow missed, you have this incredible manual aiming system with simulated bullet trajectories.”
Steam review · 50.7 h played ↗
Devs keep updating; Firebird update improved it
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“then the Firebird patch dropped and made the game a whole lot better and manageable.”
Steam review · 95.5 h played ↗
Deep strategy layer and flexible builds
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“the flexibility it gives you in how you tackle a combat or how you build your troops is unparalleled”
Steam review · 197.3 h played ↗
Terror from the Void mod makes it shine
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Terror from the Void; is an expansion, which is a complete reworking of the whole game. It is a brilliant.”
Steam review · 201.6 h played ↗
Great value and long campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“for the asking price which is including all of the dlc's mind you, well, you ought to ask is if the boss has gone mad.”
Steam review · 11.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Bugs, crashes and broken saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“there are gamebreaking bugs where your soldiers won't regen HP or AP over time”
Steam review · 17.8 h played ↗
Unbalanced difficulty and overtuned enemies
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“their units didnt scale to be much better then you own units very early on in the game all the way into the end game”
Steam review · 26.8 h played ↗
Repetitive missions and small maps
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“There is a very small selection of maps, all of which are fairly small and uninteresting, that you do over and over again.”
Steam review · 33.5 h played ↗
Little real progression, mostly sidegrades
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“You do not unlock better armor or superior weapons; instead, you just get "slightly different" lateral variants.”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗
Geoscape micromanagement becomes a chore
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“The game mistakes administrative overload for strategic depth.”
Steam review · 44.5 h played ↗
Clunky UI and poor controller support
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“the controller support is abysmal, specially on the world map and base menus”
Steam review · 10.4 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support30 GB
Minimum
OSWin 10, 8 and 7 SP1+ (64 bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i3 / AMD Phenom II X4
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 950 / AMD Radeon R9 270x
Storage30 GB available space
Recommended
OSWin 10, 8 and 7 SP1+ (64 bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i5 3GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 3.1 GHz or better
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480
Storage30 GB available space
OSWin 10, 8 and 7 SP1+ (64 bit)
ProcessorIntel Core i3 / AMD Phenom II X4
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 950 / AMD Radeon R9 270x
Storage30 GB available space
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