X-COM What genre is XCOM?

[Average Manatee]

I'd wager that any definition of genre you could come up with to define XCom would have so many examples of games that fit the definition yet were wholly, completely different such that the definition is useless. Hence, it has to be defined as a XCom clone or XCom-like.

 

[ValeVelKal]

It's the only genre nobody in the industry has been able to match in over 20 years, other than that lonely Ja2 gem.

...Yea. Xenonauts, UFO Afterlight/Aftermath/Aftershock, UFO Extraterrestrials, and...what's the other one....UFO AI? All fall short some way or another. Man, we needed Genesis.

I need to try JA2, I have it.

It's the only game in 25 years of PC gaming that gave me Xcom vibes and fun. Try it

I played Chaos Gate for the first time 1 month ago, and it strongly gives the same vibe, though it is very unbalanced in your favor so too easy (do like me : don’t use the Terminators except in missions in tight corridors, or even better - at all).

You can Ironman it at your first walkthrough, I - almost -did it and could have done it.