X-COM: Interceptor
X-COM: Interceptor
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X-COM: Enforcer
Developer MicroProse Software, Inc
X-COM: Enforcer is a third-person shooter video game developed by Infogrames Interactive Hunt Valley Studio and published by Infogrames in 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It is the sixth game in the X-COM series, but takes place in a timeline separate from those established by the first four games of the series and lacks the strategy game elements of previous games. The game received mainly mixed reviews from critics,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
322 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
95 positive · 84 negative
95% range 46–60%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 95 | 84 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 11 | 7 | 113 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 9 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
164 of 321 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
54% recommend · 98 yes, 85 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 183 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (273 of 473 positive).
Some players find it a fun, mindless arcade shooter despite its flaws. [1][2][3] Others criticize it as a terrible use of the X-COM license with janky controls. [4][5][6] A few reviewers note it is only worth playing if obtained in a bundle. [2][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [4]
The game seems strange coming from 2001 it's so jank you'd think its from pre quake days with how horrible the third person shooting feels. Sufficed to say its no fun to play and I don't see why anybody would ever bother playing this when there's so many better games in its genre. Also doesn't help you play a robot not even a silent protagonist type... which I mean its indistinguishable gameplay wise but your …
- [7]
This game is an example of what happens when you let Hasbro get a hold of an established and popular game franchise. It's terrible. It's link to the old XCOM games is lip service only, and the gameplay and graphics were bad even back when this was released. Really I only own it because it came with the bundle of old school XCOM games I actually wanted and it was cheaper to get the bundle than buy everything EXCEPT …
- [1]
is it a good xcom game? no. is it a fun game? yes. are there better games in this genre? the modern EDF games, for starters. but as part of the x-com pack, this is alright. nothing especially offensive or bad about it.
- [2]
It's not that bad. Level design is simple, gameplay is simple, and even on hard difficulty it's way too easy. Still I played through it twice and had a reasonably good time doing it. I'm happy that newer Xcom games are nothing like this, though. If you got this as part of a bundle you might as well install it. Would I spend money on it? Not a chance.
- [3]
Details Loosely tying into the XCOM universe, you are a lone enforcer killing waves of aliens. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204656371 As credible as Gerard Butler saving the Whitehouse, this 'XCOM has Fallen' romp throws logic and canon out the window to allow you in a straight-up mecha-brawl with hordes of aliens. It is 'XCOM' meets 'State of Emergency' with frenetic levels, you in your …
Summarised from 34 of the 310 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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X-COM: Enforcer sits at 53% positive across 179 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Steve Butts of IGN stated that the game is "pretty much nonstop action" and that it was perfect for when [one has] only got fifteen minutes to kill". Greg Kasavin of GameSpot was more cautious, noting that "it's as mindless of a shooter as they come, and you can't help but be disappointed at the thought of this, in light of the series' roots as a mentally stimulating strategy game." Jason D'Aprile of Computer Games Magazine was even harsher, stating: "X-COM lovers will hate this game, and it's clear the label was just tacked on as some lame attempt to cash in on the series' brand appeal." Jason Samuel…
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Reactions
60 of 322 · most liked firstthis is pretty cool. the original X-Com was a 2D isometric game but the collision system itself was 3D. objects in the world would have collisions defined by vertical stacks of predefined patterns. this allowed the game to do accurate line of sight and hit detection. very cool!
positive · AI labelView post →I'm kind of disappointed this new turn-based tactics Star Wars game we're getting looks to be set in the Clone Wars. Small-squad tactics on the X-Com model is a pretty perfect pick for, like, rebel commandos. But I guess heaven forefend we get to play as actual straight-up rebels, huh?
neutral · AI labelView post →anyway if anyone wants to profile me I'm going to need you to acknowledge just how highly tuned the difficulty on my modded X-COM 2 game is.
neutral · AI labelView post →Seconding this. The OG X-Com has seen an ENORMOUS modding renaissance in the past few years thanks to the OpenXCom engine. The best way to play it vanilla, as it fixes a ton of bugs and improves the UI. Some of the biggest mods dwarf the original game by a factor of ten times the content or more.
neutral · AI labelView post →4) Battle Brothers. The second greatest squad level tactics game of all time, after X-Com 2. You lead a merry band of scum around a randomly generated map, fighting intense battles against everything from peasants to giant wyrms. Ideally played Ironman, like all such games, once you’re good.
neutral · AI labelView post →Daydreaming about a hero-based X-COM style turn-based strategy game with a cyberpunk setting and the characters are all furry hybrids a la TMNT/Elephantmen and they're all hot and you can kiss them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Star Wars Zero Company by @bitreactor.com will be available in a few hours, but I've already read several very positive reviews. A tactical SW game has always been my dream, ever since the days of UFO/X-COM. So if it's a great one on top of that...
neutral · AI labelView post →A snazzy installer for X-COM Apocalypse, the third game in the original series, which seems to have been a dreadful experience for all involved to have worked on. Has some cool ideas and vibes with its sprawling post-apocalyptic megacity setting that followed the events of Terror From The Deep.
neutral · AI labelView post →This was the first computer game I ever played and it has prior art for “summon creatures who will fight for you” *and* “summoning creatures you can ride”. It’s a direct ancestor to the X-COM games.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Hey, dork: would you like a Star Wars squad tactics game created by the makers of the X-COM reboot, using the social mechanics of Jaded Alliance, set in the dark underbelly of the Clone Wars?” “Fuck me up, please.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m just gonna assume that X-Com is a AAA game and suggest that.
neutral · AI labelView post →@mikedrucker.bsky.social wrote about the X-Com video game novelization. It's your typical office romance, but with way more aliens. 1900hotdog.com/2025/08/nerd...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s kind of fucked up that they have these big game shows every year and all the games aren’t X-Com or some type of game where Shrek must make moral choices
neutral · AI labelView post →Been replaying Dread dude I forgot that this game is kind of hard, especially when you're mostly playing unc games like total war and X-COM and other turn based stuff like me these days. Some of those boss fights need you to be LOCKED IN.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quasimorph (2026, PC) Enjoying this game quite a bit! Cool mix of X-Com and traditional Roguelike (DoomRL in particular).
neutral · AI labelView post →By the way if you're enjoying Star Wars Zero Company or X-COM, I gotta remind people about Marvel's Midnight Suns. This was a turn based strategy game in the Marvel universe. You play a customizable hero named Hunter, & get to have hours and hours of dialogue with Spider-Man/Blade etc. T'was fun!
neutral · AI labelView post →Decided to play X-Com 2 after many years away. Shit, it's brutal. I'd forgotten how unforgiving the early game is. Two hits and dead. Mind control that can only be broken by killing a tough enemy. It's certainly challenging.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some more fun trivia: Chris Eck who worked on Harebrained’s BATTLETECH game has also worked on this new Star Wars X-Com game that’s getting rave reviews right now - congrats to Chris and the whole team!
neutral · AI labelView post →Dammit Zero Company, now I wanna play X-COM again. I have no time for X-COM! Why can't I have a Hyperbolic Time Chamber to play every game in my backlog?!
neutral · AI labelView post →After a leak last week, EA officially announced the name of Bit Reactor and Respawns next X-Com like Star Wars game 'Star Wars Zero Company'. www.ign.com/articles/sta...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wasn't the X-COM reboot just made to drum up excitement for the FPS game, but ended up massively overshadowing it? I feel like I heard that somewhere, long ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game seems strange coming from 2001 it's so jank you'd think its from pre quake days with how horrible the third person shooting feels. Sufficed to say its no fun to play and I don't see why anybody would ever bother playing this when there's so many better games in its genre. Also doesn't help you play a robot not even a silent protagonist type... which I mean its indistinguishable gameplay wise but your creator never lets you forget your just an automaton and an extension of his will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remembering the Mario vs Rabbids X-Com game where Luigi was the dedicated sniper. Unprecedented foresight.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need an X-Com like game set in a fantasy setting where you run a guild and send parties out for missions and shit while using the gold and monster drops to expand and improve the guild.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I was baptised in a fire, these are merely hot coals" Sartha speaking on X-Com and X-com 2 after having been raised on the MS-DOS X-Com UFO defence game
neutral · AI labelView post →I really, really liked Xenonauts 2 despite bouncing off of the first one. Everyone who told me old X-COM was better was right, actually. www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi gamers If you see this GIF then I probably will most likely be arrested by X-com or something IDK We are live with X-COM: UFO defense (1994) cause I have never played an old xcom game before and I wanna try it out and die horribly. moogle.tv
neutral · AI labelView post →The board game Frosthaven is getting a video game with the designer of X-COM #Frosthaven #Gaming #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →their new tactics game really does look great, haven't snagged it yet but it's very much a game made by people who obviously loved X-Com and Jagged Alliance 2
neutral · AI labelView post →-Quick Review- X-COM: Enforcer is a third person shooter developed by MicroProse and released in 2001. The controls can be a bit of a pain in the butt, the way you move the camera is changing the way you face, this game has a serious case of the early 2000's. It's still playable, but there are a lot of negatives about the game which will drive away most to far better games within the 3rd person shooter genre. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=716912371 -Detailed breakdown…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🛸🛸🛸 🦀🦀🦀 🟥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
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks for hosting #turnbasedthursday, @norsegame.bsky.social ! War on Wheels is a turn-based, physics-controlled car combat game. Think: X-Com meets Mad Max. store.steampowered.com/app/3768750/...
neutral · AI labelView post →This and its predecessor, Rebelstar Raiders, are where Julian Gollop cut his tactical game teeth, going on to design X-COM. You'll see many of the mechanics familiar to X-COM players being introduced here. It's still a solid game with an absolute banger of an in-mission tune.
neutral · AI labelView post →Discovered new PC game: Cyber Knights Flashpoint, kinda cyberpunk X-Com, slightly reminiscent of the Shadowrun PC games Missions are all heists of some sort, with an emphasis on balancing stealth vs combat, and hacking that integrates really well with core gameplay. Recommended. Could be a TTRPG.
neutral · AI labelView post →there is nobody in the history of the world that has hit by more 20% flinch chances and missed 80% hit chances than me and I've played this game for like 8 fucking hours, I am not kidding about having the X-Com copy of the game
negative · AI labelView post →Terrible camera, terrible animations, terrible key bindings, terrible gameplay, terrible use of the X-Com license.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If they really wanted to make a good Evangelion game, they'd rip X-COM off, and then have the other part be a management sim like the PS2 game, except for child soldiers who slowly wear out if they don't get immediately annihilated in the tac-sim part.
neutral · AI labelView post →the description "Star Wars But X-Com" is a real "there but for the grace of God go I" of video game addiction potential
neutral · AI labelView post →I was just looking for something else, but... the retro game world had XCOM in basement xD
neutral · AI labelView post →Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @dotage.bsky.social ! ZodiacLegion is a game of tactical dungeon crawling with X-COM-like strategic elements: bsky.app/profile/gald...
neutral · AI labelView post →Looks like a stain on X-Com series legacy... Yes, it's THAT bad. Don't play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝕽𝐄𝐕Ⅰ𝐄W “S̴Y̸S̷T̸E̷M̷ ̴E̶R̷R̸O̶R̷ D̶A̵T̸A̶ ̸C̴O̵R̶R̵U̶P̴T̶E̸D̶ ̶P̸R̴O̷G̷R̷A̷M̴ ̵I̸N̶C̶O̴M̷P̴L̵E̵T̶E̵
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played a bit of Zero Company and this game is scratching that feeling that X-Com2 unfortunately couldn't for me. Which is just removing turn limits in most of the missions. I think that ultimately killed my enjoyment of X-Com so fucking bad that I just couldn't play it anymore.
negative · AI labelView post →Phoenix Point is the best X-Com game
positive · AI labelView post →🚨BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani once savescummed a game of X-Com so he wouldn't lose his best sniper. Must credit the New York Times and Twitter Account: @CallofDutyBooty69. 🚨
neutral · AI labelView post →petition to replace X-COM style game hit percentages with words like, "no chance in hell, i mean if you squint a bit, oh definitely but ... maybe?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghost in the Shell action game or X-Com like. I would do terrible things for the specific vibes of it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Impossible not to mention my lifelong love of the X-Com games, from the original series, the reboot, The Long War, and its imitators, boy I sure do love building bases, researching laser guns, deploying cool drop ships and such like. HELLPIERCERS, if I was being Like That, is very much X-Com In Hell
positive · AI labelView post →X-COM 2 was made insanely hard due to fans complaining the first game was too easy. What the devs hadn’t realised was that the first game had a bug that kept reverting difficulty settings to beginner.
neutral · AI labelView post →We need a Lego X-Com game
neutral · AI labelView post →is it a good xcom game? no. is it a fun game? yes. are there better games in this genre? the modern EDF games, for starters. but as part of the x-com pack, this is alright. nothing especially offensive or bad about it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played X-Com the Board Game boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16...
neutral · AI labelView post →New post: dev.to/retrorom/x-c... X-COM: UFO Defense — the 1994 strategy classic that turned losing into a design system #retrogaming #gaming #retro #strategy #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →X-Com UFO Defence 1994. What an experience it was to play that game when it came out.
positive · AI labelView post →Hey X-COM (2012) friends. Some of you may remember what *really* made this game amazing was the "Long War" mod, from Pavonis Interactive, with the X-COM creators themselves stating¹ "We're basically a 20-hour tutorial for Long War, and that's okay." It was that good. Pavonis went on to create the incredible game Terra Invicta², but did you know that Long War continued to be improved upon by Ucross, as the Long War Rebalance project? It's good, like really *really* good, and continues to see…
neutral · AI labelView post →A generic horde shooter with X-COM slapped on it. If you're a wimp like me and play on easy, the game punishes you by not letting you face the final boss and you have to play the whole game again, no thank you ma'am
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Breaking hiatus to shout about Tactical Breach Wizards, the turn-based strat game featuring, yes, tactical breach wizards, that has more than scratched the itch for a fresh X-Com. Did you love X-Com 2? Do you love hilariously sarcastic banter and a game that encourages defenestration? Buy this.
neutral · AI labelView post →The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky --- Day 6: X-COM: UFO Defense (PC)
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is an example of what happens when you let Hasbro get a hold of an established and popular game franchise. It's terrible. It's link to the old XCOM games is lip service only, and the gameplay and graphics were bad even back when this was released. Really I only own it because it came with the bundle of old school XCOM games I actually wanted and it was cheaper to get the bundle than buy everything EXCEPT for this title. If you got it in a bundle deal... congrats on being able to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early thoughts on Star Wars: Zero Company after an hour of playtime. - This is my first X-COM style strategy game, so there’s a bit of a learning curve for me - I like how there’s little battle animations even when it’s not a character’s turn
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