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Phoenix Point

RPGStrategy

Developer Snapshot Games Inc.

Phoenix Point is a strategy video game featuring a turn-based tactics system that is developed by Bulgaria-based independent developer Snapshot Games. It was released on December 3, 2019, for macOS and Microsoft Windows, for Stadia on January 26, 2021, and Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on October 1, 2021. Phoenix Point is intended to be a spiritual successor to the X-COM series that had been originally created by… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

334 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

72
Fresh

175 positive · 68 negative
95% range 66–77%

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Steam reviews175680
Bluesky *29540
Mastodon *226
Lemmy *205

* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).

Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
3,088 of 4,324 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

71% recommend · 163 yes, 68 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 231 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (5,287 of 7,227 positive).

Many players compare Phoenix Point to XCOM, with some preferring it and others finding it inferior. [1][2][3][4]

Liked
  • Manual aiming and bullet physics add tactical depth. [5][6][7]
  • Body part targeting is novel and engaging. [8][9]
Disliked
  • The UI and inventory management are clunky. [10][11]
  • Enemy AI is poor and turns can be slow. [1][12]
  • Missions become repetitive and tedious. [13][11]
Representative posts
  • [14]Steam user Steam user …6575Steam review · Jan 25, 2026 · Not recommended

    Phoenix Point is yet another candidate that desperately deserves a “Mixed” review. Unfortunately, Steam doesn’t do nuance, so this one ends up with a negative thumbs-down from me. That verdict comes after two full playthroughs and, especially, after a recently started one that reminded me why I stopped in the first place. TL;DR: Phoenix Point is a 6–7/10 game. On sale, it might scratch that XCOM 3 itch just enough …

  • [15]Steam user Steam user …1891Steam review · Dec 11, 2025 · Recommended

    As a life long XCOM/UFO Defense fan, I backed this game back when all we had was a tech demo and lore snippits. Since release there were hiccups and valid criticisms of the game but today the dev team did something I haven’t seen before. They worked with and incorporated features/balancing from the most popular overhaul mod this game has. All I gotta say is: great work you guys. I’m proud to have been a kickstarter.

  • [5]Steam user Steam user …3241Steam review · Jun 26, 2026 · Recommended

    If you’re coming from modern XCOM thinking you’re just getting a reskin, brace yourself because this game is an absolute beast. I have sunk so many hours into it, and honestly, it completely ruins percentage-based shooting games for me now. The biggest thing that hooks you is how actual physics and ballistics dictate the combat. Instead of a dice roll telling you that a point-blank shotgun blast somehow missed, you …

  • [4]Steam user Steam user …7669Steam review · Nov 1, 2025 · Recommended

    The comparison is omni-present but do know Phoenix Point is more like X-Com: Enemy Within and Enemy Unknown than X-Com 2. If you liked that game, you'll likely enjoy this one, with a few asterisks. The novelty of its unique setting wears off long before the end and the game features questionable design decisions and a smaller budget. X-Com 2 is the better, more polished product and I would recommend it over Phoenix …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …8721Steam review · Apr 17, 2026 · Recommended

    Personal preference, about as good as xcom/xcom2. If you've liked those this is a safe bet towards enjoyment. it does have some new mechanics and the game tries to do stuff differently to be able to stand on it's on legs, but overall experience hits the same sweet spot. Negative things -borderless doesn't work as intended -trying to complete all achievements on steam on this version needs a lot of digging through …

Summarised from 34 of the 313 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made

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Players who liked Phoenix Point talk about manual aiming and bullet physics add tactical depth; those who didn't talk about the UI and inventory management are clunky. Which matters more to you?

Critics, per Wikipedia

Upon its release, Phoenix Point was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics for Microsoft Windows, with an aggregate score of 74/100 on Metacritic. PcGamer's reviewer praises the game's visual design, while claiming the sound design and music are bad. Still, he claims the game was so good he didn't care. Still, he notices weak combat AI and bugs. He concluded that the game was full of interesting ideas, but that it was also "buggy" and its state was "a bit of a mess". IGN said that the game was "in a state that still feels very experimental and unrefined". Polygon wrote that the game felt "unbalanced", was "between onerous and dull" and that the tactical battles were "simply…

From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.

Reactions

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  • Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    There's a specific genre of mod I love that I don't think there's a real term for, so I'll coin it: Full Remix. Examples: Mega Man 7 EP, XCom 2: Long War Of the Chosen, Phoenix Point: Terror from the Void, Battletech Advanced. Mods that fully deconstruct a game, then rebuild it into something new.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9348Steam reviews · Nov 25, 2025 · 67 h played

    THE BREAKDOWN +Some fascinating unit designs +Reticle-based hit system feels less random than a percentage system +Body part targeting is novel and helps add tactical depth +Story is pretty interesting and has some fun ideas +Troop upgrades feel meaningful -Class balancing feels completely nonexistent -DLCs are poorly implemented and throw off the already shaky resource management -Too much emphasis on the world map for how shallow it is; juggling multiple ships and squads becomes tedious, not…

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  • Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.comBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

    That's nice! Got a press release about a big final overhaul update for Phoenix Point (genuinely underrated game) with a whole section about how they worked closely with the developer of mega-mod Terror From The Void to ensure full compatibility. Also a price drop/sale. Full game is £11. Recommended

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  • Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gayBluesky · Jan 20, 2026

    🦀🤖🤖🦀 🔴LIVE🔴 🤖🦀🦀🤖 It's time to continue The Crab Wars in Phoenix Point. This game has better Turn Based Combat Mechanics then XCOM. Don't Believe me? Come see! ▶️ www.twitch.tv/pankraru ◀️ #Vtuber #PhoenixPoint #CrabBattle #RPG #TurnBasedTactics #Xcom

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  • Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.comBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    Huh. I missed that an expansion (a pretty big one - new campaign, new faction, etc) dropped for Chip N' Clawz. The HUGELY undersold action-RTS (think Brutal Legend + Ratchet & Clank) from the Phoenix Point studio. The game has a friend-pass too, so only one purchase needed for online co-op.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1891Steam reviews · Dec 11, 2025 · 296 h played

    As a life long XCOM/UFO Defense fan, I backed this game back when all we had was a tech demo and lore snippits. Since release there were hiccups and valid criticisms of the game but today the dev team did something I haven’t seen before. They worked with and incorporated features/balancing from the most popular overhaul mod this game has. All I gotta say is: great work you guys. I’m proud to have been a kickstarter.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6575Steam reviews · Jan 25, 2026 · 36 h played

    Phoenix Point is yet another candidate that desperately deserves a “Mixed” review. Unfortunately, Steam doesn’t do nuance, so this one ends up with a negative thumbs-down from me. That verdict comes after two full playthroughs and, especially, after a recently started one that reminded me why I stopped in the first place. TL;DR: Phoenix Point is a 6–7/10 game. On sale, it might scratch that XCOM 3 itch just enough to hold you over — while simultaneously reminding you why XCOM 2 is such a…

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    Sometimes, when I'm feeling mean spirited, I'll say something like, "X-com's most recent game was about playing cops, while Phoenix Point is about vaporizing Elon Musk with lasers with anarchists"

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    Phoenix Point is a game that genuinely believes in anarchism - in that it thinks anarchism is good and that anarchists can and should be given laser guns. The main failing of Synedrion is that they're not able to bring to bear immense violence on specific threats - which is their biggest strength!

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    It's kinda fun that playing X-Com: Enemy Unknown, Terror from the Deep, Apocalypse and Phoenix Point and you can see a pretty steady definition and refinement of a basic moral question that each game is increasingly *about* until it's the entirety of PP: What does it mean to be a human being?

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  • 🐰The Ingenious Doll of La Hamcha🐰 @hamirapingpong.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    man idk why i ever bothered listening to General Consensus for years i've heard that Phoenix Point does nothing to differentiate itself from Firaxis XCOM, and within 10 minutes of game start i'm introduced to vehicles and the ability to target enemy parts to cripple or impair them

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  • Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gayBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    🦀🤖🤖🦀 🔴LIVE🔴 🤖🦀🦀🤖 It's time to continue The Crab Wars in Phoenix Point. This game has better Turn Based Combat Mechanics then XCOM. Don't Believe me? Come see! Today we Go FULL CYBORGS! ▶️ www.twitch.tv/pankraru ◀️ #Vtuber #PhoenixPoint #CrabBattle #RPG #TurnBasedTactics #Xcom

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  • Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gayBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    🦀🦀🦀🦀 🔴LIVE🔴 🦀🦀🦀🦀 🦀Phoenix Point🦀 Phoenix Point is an excellent game with better turn based combat mechanics then XCOM, Don't believe me? Come See. ▶️ www.twitch.tv/pankraru ◀️ #Vtuber #PhoenixPoint #CrabWars

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  • Steam user Steam user …3459Steam reviews · Dec 9, 2025 · 79 h played

    Although it can be unfair at times, it is inevitable that any games review must ultimately compare it in some way to its predecessors. Customers expect improvement, innovation, and changes from the original formula, especially when it is clear that a game is marketed as having been inspired by a previous game. Phoenix point exemplifies this fact as a successor the firaxis games legendary XCOM series. In terms of gameplay, Phoenix point clearly draws upon and improves on many of the gameplay…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8721Steam reviews · Apr 17, 2026 · 148 h played

    Personal preference, about as good as xcom/xcom2. If you've liked those this is a safe bet towards enjoyment. it does have some new mechanics and the game tries to do stuff differently to be able to stand on it's on legs, but overall experience hits the same sweet spot. Negative things -borderless doesn't work as intended -trying to complete all achievements on steam on this version needs a lot of digging through internet forums -so very minor bugs when targeting through walls -AI is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥…

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    it's very funny to watch this x-com retrospective and it's like, "The DLC added this and this and this" and I keep going, "oh neat, stuff Phoenix Point did! ...in the base game!" (the build variation in PP is still my favorite thing about it)

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  • Steam user Steam user …0449Steam reviews · Jan 9, 2026 · 113 h played

    The most important thing about this game to remember is that this is not XCOM. That might seem obvious, but it's often compared to XCOM 2, and it can be misleading. If you love playing XCOM 2, you might absolutely hate Phoenix Point. There are some potentially annoying things like ammunition management, body parts or aliens getting new technologies. At the same time, I absolutely love those parts of Phoenix, for me it's more enjoyable game compared to XCOM 2 (which is also a good game I like).…

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  • DaddleDew @[email protected]Lemmy · May 23, 2026

    The "modern" XCOM games cheaped out on their game mechanic budget. The game Phoenix Point made by a much smaller studio with fewer resources came up with a vastly superior way to tackle hit probability. In that game you can free aim using a reticle made of two concentric circles. The outer circle represents where your shot(s) have a 100% chance falling inside of. The inner circle represents where 50% of your shots have a chance of being inside. The more accurate weapons have smaller circles.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9520Steam reviews · Dec 11, 2025 · 52 h played

    I bought this game last year during the announcement of "Terrors of the Void" reaching 1.0 and thoroughly enjoyed it - even dove directly into TOTV by the fact that it was fully endorsed by the original devs in how true they kept to the game's spirit. Now, more than a year later, three years after the last DLC was released, Snapshot Games is back with a Major Update that not only touches on every single DLC and gives major improvements to QoL across numerous parts of the game, but was…

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  • Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gayBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    🛸🛸🛸 🦀🦀🦀 🟥LIVE🟥 Im playing Phoenix Point! A tactical turn based Game like X-COM, but with WAY better Mechanics! Come Check me out, this game Needs more eyes on it! Viewers Get to Name Soldiers!! 👉 altstream.online/pank 👈 #vtuber #altstream #phoenixpoint #tactical

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  • Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    I wish I could properly explain the effect that Phoenix Point has on my psyche like it is THE MOST absolutely precise balance of "I should put this game away, it's clearly not working for me, here are the documentable reasons" vs "NEW YEAR, NEW RUN ATTEMPT, MAYBE THIS TIME"

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  • Steam user Steam user …0404Steam reviews · Nov 24, 2025 · 16 h played

    First of all, I should say that I played this game without the DLCs and I liked it. However, I had bought it after playing XCOM 2, and unfortunately I shelved it back then because I kept comparing it to such an amazing game. Now, after forgetting about XCOM and letting some time pass, I played it again and realized it’s actually not bad. -There are several great systems that could be adapted into XCOM, such as: -Manual aiming -Building multiple bases, which makes you feel like a true global…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9859Steam reviews · Aug 12, 2026 · 105 h played

    Prelude: When Firaxis remade XCOM, it won near-universal acclaim for staying true to the original games while removing a lot of the repetitive garbage and micromanagement of the early games. Phoenix Point, like most other XCOM clones, declares 'but what if we didn't do that though?'. I've given this game so many chances to win me over. Unfortunately it failed every time. I'm an XCOM veteran, having played every game in the series (bar Bureau, which really doesn't count). I've enjoyed them all…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3241Steam reviews · Jun 26, 2026 · 51 h played

    If you’re coming from modern XCOM thinking you’re just getting a reskin, brace yourself because this game is an absolute beast. I have sunk so many hours into it, and honestly, it completely ruins percentage-based shooting games for me now. The biggest thing that hooks you is how actual physics and ballistics dictate the combat. 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.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1797Steam reviews · Sep 2, 2026 · 31 h played

    Base game is mid. Get the DLCs and play with TFTV. You won't regret it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4627Steam reviews · Feb 28, 2026 · 121 h played

    I recommend to play it. DO NOT finish it! Feel free to drop it when you get to "It's getting annoying..." The aiming mechanic is awesome. Building on that, is the bodypart and evolution mechanic. It makes every other game of this type, feel unreasonable and a step back. Class mixing is incredible and fun. You can do so many things using a team. When you get a hang of things, mutons and other things get added, with even more options. The attention to detail is stellar. Each unit has weapon,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9601Steam reviews · Feb 14, 2026 · 24 h played

    Good candidate for a mixed review, but overall I would almost rather play any other tactical shooter than this. Mostly, the game suffers from a large list of small things that add up to a bad experience; this includes: very repetitive missions, poor writing, bad spawns, uninspired character perks, overly cumbersome flow of recruiting characters, and a research tree that feels like mostly filler. Oh, and the game seriously lacks thematic music. If you can call anything in this game at all…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9819Steam reviews · May 26, 2026 · 15 h played

    The game has some interesting points. The tactical combat is decent, featuring physical cover and a limb-damage system. The Geoscape feels alive with factions actively pursuing their own goals, and the Mist genuinely feels like an encroaching threat. However, the game is heavily dragged down by numerous negative points: - Horrible UI/UX: Equipping your soldiers is an annoying chore. The interface rarely gives a clear breakdown of how many Action Points a movement will cost. Dropships often…

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

    Phoenix Point is the best X-Com game

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  • Steam user Steam user …4617Steam reviews · Dec 18, 2025 · 251 h played

    The new update and the mod TFTV together have made a top class game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9858Steam reviews · Sep 3, 2026 · 124 h played

    XCOM but with all the illogic of 'Aliens cheat reality constantly' removed. Plus when you aim at something, you can get a free sight picture and see why the hit chances suck. And target limbs! Really, the only issue this game is how unheard of it is. IMHO it's far superior to XCOM in general.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3111Steam reviews · Apr 8, 2026 · 20 h played

    I dont want to recommend for or against this game really. I do like it but it feels like such a let down from xcom 2

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  • Steam user Steam user …0191Steam reviews · Apr 6, 2026 · 84 h played

    It's just frustrating, boring and tedious over the long run. No real progression. No new tech makes it feel any different. Slight upgrades in strength but no real advancement. Micromanaging gear around is just annoying. You clearly feel the potential, but man, it's just not there. Air Combat is just something of the most stupidest things I've seen. Even with mods it just infuriates me.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7669Steam reviews · Nov 1, 2025 · 47 h played

    The comparison is omni-present but do know Phoenix Point is more like X-Com: Enemy Within and Enemy Unknown than X-Com 2. If you liked that game, you'll likely enjoy this one, with a few asterisks. The novelty of its unique setting wears off long before the end and the game features questionable design decisions and a smaller budget. X-Com 2 is the better, more polished product and I would recommend it over Phoenix Point, even if the latter has its own charm. Well, said charms are largely…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8367Steam reviews · Oct 12, 2025 · 12 h played

    Like many have already said: it's more XCOM. If you like XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you will like this because it's almost exactly the same game, with a different setting (pretty much the same visual style but it's bugs instead of aliens) and some slight (really slight) differences. It's a copy, but a well made one. If you played XCOM, you will know exactly what to do and how to play right off the bat, it has the same mechanics, the same pacing, the same urgency feeling where you will have to make…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3265Steam reviews · Aug 24, 2026 · 768 h played

    I purchased this game because the designer was the creator of the original XCOM series and he didn't disappoint. The style of play, flying missions with a squad of individual soldiers to achieve objectives that ultimately reach a final conclusion or in this game many lesser objectives leading to greater objectives and then the final conclusion is great fun. The biggest twist is not a bout which objectives to do first and next, but how to allocate resources to your team. There are many…

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  • Trese Brothers Games | Strategy RPGs @tresebrothers.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2024

    We're making Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, a squad tactics heist RPG! store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/... If you love tactical RPGs like the Shadowrun Trilogy, Wasteland 3, old-school Fallout, or games like XCOM 2 / Phoenix Point... check it out! ☝️ #TurnBasedThursday #PCGaming #VideoGames 🎮

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  • Steam user Steam user …4295Steam reviews · Jul 28, 2026 · 3648 h played

    I have put over 3500 hrs into this game, do not regret a single one of them. It may not be Xcom 2, but it's almost as entertaining and a wonderful product considering that it's made on a comperatively small budget. There really should be a sequel or at least a largish DLC but there are mods to cover some of that. All in all a great game in the Xcom tradition.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9431Steam reviews · Mar 2, 2026 · 202 h played

    Do not paly Phoenix point vanilla, it has problems and I never finished it. Terror from the Void; is an expansion, which is a complete reworking of the whole game. It is a brilliant. It's easily as good as XCOM2. war of the chosen, which I have played several times. But with a lot more depth and better balance.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4954Steam reviews · Aug 12, 2026 · 8 h played

    I keep trying to get into this game, but god the clunk just feels frustrating to the point I just uninstall. It mostly comes down to the actual aim mechanics for attacking, which winds up being XCOM but the game just feels like it lies to you. On your turn it does feel satisfying and intuitive for the most part. 100% of your shots land in the outer ring while 50% will land in the inner ring. Then you find a door or corner that your trooper can't seem to figure out how to look around even…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8590Steam reviews · Jul 27, 2026 · 8 h played

    This game is not fun, dont think its like xcom, the music is barely there, the gameplay is barely there, equipment is tedious, gameplay is tedious, wish i could refund, do not recomend, an itneresting concept, failed execution, too tedious, too much resource managment, the story is ♥♥♥♥, the character writing is ♥♥♥♥,

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  • Steam user Steam user …5207Steam reviews · Jun 26, 2026 · 27 h played

    i like the idea of the game but its just so unbalanced. the armor you get at the start of the game is pretty much the only armor you get. The pandorans always out number you by at least 3 to 1 wich wouldnt be a problem if 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, by mid game they can 1 and 2 shot your units and there is no way to stop them as you are still stuck using the same armor from the start of the game thats not…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4946Steam reviews · May 30, 2026 · 120 h played

    I was lucky enough to buy it when it was a bit more polished, and not at what I heard was a pretty bumpy release. I enjoy it! It's hard to recapture the lighting in the bottle that was X-COM. One super small detail is that the soldiers feel impersonal as they always have a helmet on. Otherwise, interesting mechanics (multi-classes, single bullet trajectories, aiming), different enough from other games in the genre to make it unique. If you liked stuff like X-COM or tactical wizards I'd…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4597Steam reviews · Apr 30, 2026 · 26 h played

    This is a difficult one. The game has much to like, but it is poorly playtested and balanced, even many years after release. Still I had fun. So take it as a weak recommendation assuming you can handle a poorly designed game. Targeted aiming barely works. The ONLY thing it can do is if the enemy is carrying a two handed weapon you can disable the weapon by destroying one arm. But destroying a humans head does nothing. Destroying any creatures legs only slow normal movement a little, but does…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7117Steam reviews · Mar 21, 2026 · 1079 h played

    I am not particularly good at games, but I do like a challenge sometimes. With my level of skill its certainly a challenge. Have yet to beat the game, there is an awful lot to keep track of, so if you have good organisational skills you will probably really enjoy this. I am on my 4th playthrough with only a moderate chance of final success. If I cannot do it on this run-through, its mod time! Excellent game, very engaging, but maybe could use an easier mode than 'Rookie', Novice maybe?

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  • Steam user Steam user …0329Steam reviews · Mar 15, 2026 · 22 h played

    Got the game 2.5 years ago, didn't like it (played too long for a refund). Tried again and still didn't like it. The gameplay loop just doesn't feel right. Explore for resources, get too many materials but never enough tech. Too many research options that take way too long to get and are mostly filler for +10% damage on a worm that you can one shot. Line of sight based previews for who I can shoot doesn't really work when I move my guy and, yeah I could shoot the guy, but the only thing to…

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  • ChicoSuave @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 2, 2026

    Masters of Orion 2 XCOM series and similar turn based tactical games like Xenonauts 2 and Phoenix Point (most recently Star Wars Zero Company) Age of Wonders 3 City of Gangsters Fights in Tight Spaces Phantom Brigade Jagged Alliance 1 through 3 (but not Back in Action) Shadowrun Returns and Dragonfall

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  • Steam user Steam user …9653Steam reviews · Aug 23, 2026 · 84 h played

    I played this game long before most of the DLC came out, it was fun and beatable. Tried a playthrough recently with most of the DLC (only the well rated ones) turned on. Unplayable/beatable but not in an enjoyable way. I don't know why they decided to make one of the enemies so tanky that the only reliable strategy is to use a late game weapon type to bring it down. Even with the weapon type your likely to lose a unit or two. Severally disappointing as I used to love this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4096Steam reviews · Aug 18, 2026 · 142 h played

    Very enjoyable XCOM like game, from the original series creator. Got an update not hat long ago, that smoothed out the game and added a lot of QoL improvements. Highly recommended.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3156Steam reviews · Jun 17, 2026 · 37 h played

    After years of patches and DLCs it finally became an enjoyable experience.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8851Steam reviews · Apr 18, 2026 · 61 h played

    Phoenix Point is a good game. If you like ''Xcom style'' game, this one is for you. I personaly like Phoenix Point more than Xcom

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  • Steam user Steam user …5264Steam reviews · Mar 9, 2026 · 52 h played

    Just finished the game on Veteran. It was my second run, the first one was when the game was just released and it was abandoned for a while. Now, 6 years later I know why: despite many great ideas, the combination of those just makes game boring. yeah, there is a lot inside, weapons, soldier classes, enemies, but it all just doesn't sum up properly. The in-game world may look fantastic, but eventually it is dead. The final mission is an exercise for a masochist.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5104Steam reviews · Feb 25, 2026 · 84 h played

    Just play XCOM. I try to enjoy Phoenix Point more than I end up doing. To start with, I don't dislike this game. It is however, flawed and not perfect. Many players of Phoenix Point are XCOM players, either playing the reboot series, classics or both. Designed by the creator of the classic XCOM games, Phoenix Point seems to try and blend the gameplay of the classic titles with visuals and elements from the reboots. Many, like myself, play this game to try and scratch the same itch XCOM…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7504Steam reviews · Feb 6, 2026 · 6 h played

    The mastermind and the creator of beloved Xcom series, Julian Gollop has heard fan voices from the globe and created a new franchise (hopefully), which could have been a better and restarted Xcom. However, I would not rate the game and give it thumbs up or down. I tried to like it, but I get distracted from it easily by other similar titles (which is a bad sign). On the other hand, it delivers mechanics which are revolutionary and long awaited in the genre. Aiming system, overwatch cones,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1686Steam reviews · Dec 6, 2025 · 144 h played

    Phoenix Point is both the best and worst addition to XCOM like games in history. Compering it to XCOM 2 kinda does disservice to both games because one is more mechanically in-depth while other one has better customization of its experience through mods and is much easier to learn. Story of Phoenix point is miles better then any XCOM game. it excellently builds through out the campaign with each new revelation evolves your objectives. Cinematics are static and kinda random but they served…

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  • Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.comBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    I think I'll always have a special kind of respect for 'rebuild' style mega-mods like Battletech Advanced, XCom: Long War, Phoenix Point: Terror From The Void. Mods that take apart the entire game, all of its DLC, all of its systems, lay out the parts... and then puts them together... differently.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5162Steam reviews · Jun 25, 2026 · 470 h played

    I bounced off Phoenix Point at first due to confusion with the map strategy, and I am SO GLAD I returned to the game a few months later. I figured the strategy out, focused on the tactics I love so much, and it's been one of my all-time favorites ever since. I love this game so much that I've never even played any of the DLC; I'm afraid the changes would ruin the game I love. I only allow myself to play this game once a year because it completely dominates my free time once I start a campaign.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4998Steam reviews · May 18, 2026 · 14 h played

    Phoenix Point is made by the people who made the original XCOM. Thank god they didn't make the remake (or the sequel). There's absolutely zero immersion in this game, no sense of urgency, no 'enemy' that you're trying to beat. It's a cloud. With the XCOM remakes there was always a sense that you were the ones, it was down to you to save the world and if you failed the world would be overrun. In PP you're instantly introduced to 3 other factions who are all doing pretty well themselves, and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0229Steam reviews · May 6, 2026 · 13 h played

    The game could have used far less content and far more polish. It feels jank in the worst ways, playing it feels tedious and there's no real feedback from the combat or anything else that makes it feel impactful or "fun". Research has a lot of filler which would be okay if the actual upgrades felt gratifying, but they don't as they're just sidegrades at best. If you like map games or management you might enjoy it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0751Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2026 · 177 h played

    It was a great game in story and gameplay wise, until the ancient stuff spoiler. That was a big no-no for me. So it's just a good game with fresh but quite challenging gameplay. PROS: Gameplay is fun; the class system is wonderful - even some bizarre combinations at first sight can be pretty useful in battle; factions are diverse, but somewhat excessive. CONS: it still has some unpleasant bugs in early 2026; some plot twists; factions conflict feel artificial; Geoscape could be more…

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