Based Strategy Games To Play If You Love XCOM and XCOM 2

Key Points:

• The 2012 remake of XCOM: Enemy Unknown revitalized the turn-based strategy genre, which continues to thrive with upcoming titles like Star Wars: Zero Company expected in 2026.
• The Banner Saga trilogy is praised for its storytelling and turn-based strategy, with permanent progress and decisions that carry across games, despite a weaker reception for its final entry.
• Hard West 2 sticks closely to the XCOM formula but stands out with its supernatural Wild West setting, challenging gameplay, and unique ricochet mechanic for tactical combat.
• Expeditions: Rome offers a blend of deep narrative choices and tactical turn-based combat set in the ancient world, following a young Legatus on a military campaign across Greece, North Africa, and Gaul.
• Phantom Brigade features innovative predictive combat allowing players to plan moves using a timeline scrubber, with recent updates enhancing strategic options, mech management, and destructible terrain, earning high praise from the community.