
At a core level, you’re still gathering resources via missions found on a strategic map, researching new technology, and dropping into turn-based tactical battles when it’s time to get your hands dirty. As a longtime series fan with hundreds of hours invested in various XCOM campaigns- the mod’s called Long War for a reason, friends-I’m really grooving on this remixed take.Ĭhimera Squad is still XCOM.


But it also feels tremendously different at the same time, thanks to a much tighter focus and experimentation with some of the series’ fundamental design tenets. This refreshing spinoff looks like XCOM, sounds like XCOM, and even largely feels like XCOM.

If XCOM and SWAT had a baby, XCOM: Chimera Squad would be it.
