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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Developer MicroProse Software, Inc
X-COM: Terror from the Deep is a strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse for the PC in 1995 and for the PlayStation in 1996. It is a sequel to UFO: Enemy Unknown (known as X-Com: UFO Defense in North America) and the second game of the X-COM series, this time taking the war against a renewed alien invasion into the Earth's oceans. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
327 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
86
LovedLoved
158 positive · 26 negative
95% range 80–90%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 158 | 26 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 9 | 5 | 117 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 11 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
559 of 618 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
87% recommend · 161 yes, 25 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 186 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (860 of 948 positive).
Players widely recommend using the OpenXcom mod to fix bugs and improve the experience. [1][2][3] Many consider it a classic turn-based tactics game, though some find it a reskin of the original. [4][5][6] Some reviewers note it is significantly harder and more tedious than its predecessor. [7][8][9]
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- [8]
I'm a big fan of the first X-Com UFO Defense, and even beat that game with a single soldier as a challenge. Terror from the Deep is so difficult it is tedious, even on the easiest difficulty. And the maps (especially terror missions) are HUGE. In the first game I could literally finish a map in 5-10 minutes, but it takes a couple hours of slogging through dozens of doors and corridors to finish the TFTD maps. I've …
- [1]
****USE OPENXCOM IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME!!!**** OpenXCom is free to download, and only requires you to move some game files into it in order for it to run. On the website's forums you can find mods if you've had enough of vanilla. Most of them will require OpenXCom (OXC) or OpenXCom Extended (OXCE) to install. I had only ever played this game using OXCE. After playing the normal version, I can say this was the correct …
- [4]
Great then, great now. One of the best turn-based tactical games ever released. It does look dated and the UI is also kinda annoying to use nowadays, but if you can endure such minor issues then you will have a blast.
- [14]
There are three groups of people who might want to buy XCOM TFTD: those who played it back when it came out in the 1990s, those who played the original XCOM but not TFTD, and complete newcomers to the classic Xcom games. If you played and enjoyed TFTD back in the day, then definitely get this. It runs well on modern systems and is a faithful copy of the original. For the cost of a cup of coffee, you can revisit the …
- [2]
True classic! 27 years later still not easy to beat the game =) To install OpenXcom over Steam-XCOM and to play with Steam-overlay (and Steam playtime counting): DOWNLOAD .zip from [url=https://openxcom.org/git-builds/]https://openxcom.org/git-builds/, for example openxcom_git_master_2022_10_25_0658.zip UNPACK it somewhere, there will be the folder named "openxcom" with some subfolders ("common", "standard", "TFTD", …
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 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep sits at 86% positive across 184 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Together with its predecessor, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Terror from the Deep's sales had passed 1 million copies by March 1997. The game was received mostly very well by critics. PC Gamer UK called it to be "not only a great sequel to UFO but a superb game in its own right." Computer Game Review offered a rave review and awarded the game a "Platinum Triad" score. On the other hand, GameSpot stated that "apart from new art and a handful of new combat options, this is exactly the same game as UFO Defense, only much more difficult." Next Generation felt the same: "In the end, X-COM 2 is still a phenomenal game, and has been scored as such, but it seems so much more could have been accomplished to…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 327 · 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 →Star Wars Zero Company has officially launched. You can find all of the latest coverage, guides, screenshots, and videos of the new X-Com-like Star Wars adventure at WutsHot's portal for the game. www.wutshot.com/g/star-wars-...
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 →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 →So my understanding of the timeline is that Microprose went to the X-COM developers (Mythos Games) and said “we want a sequel, but we want it in six months”. The developers said “no, but we can give you a bigger proper sequel in a few years”. So Microprose’s own internal developers said, “fine, we’ll reskin X-COM 1 then”. So yeah, they made a palette-swapped X-COM 1, where instead of being based on land and fighting UFOs in the air, you’re now building bases underwater and fighting alien…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →****USE OPENXCOM IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME!!!**** OpenXCom is free to download, and only requires you to move some game files into it in order for it to run. On the website's forums you can find mods if you've had enough of vanilla. Most of them will require OpenXCom (OXC) or OpenXCom Extended (OXCE) to install. I had only ever played this game using OXCE. After playing the normal version, I can say this was the correct choice. If you like your ass beaten, and for it to somehow feel more fair…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →🛸🛸🛸 🦀🦀🦀 🟥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.
positive · 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 →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 →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 →I'm a big fan of the first X-Com UFO Defense, and even beat that game with a single soldier as a challenge. Terror from the Deep is so difficult it is tedious, even on the easiest difficulty. And the maps (especially terror missions) are HUGE. In the first game I could literally finish a map in 5-10 minutes, but it takes a couple hours of slogging through dozens of doors and corridors to finish the TFTD maps. I've tried a few times to play this and it is just too much micro-managing and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great then, great now. One of the best turn-based tactical games ever released. It does look dated and the UI is also kinda annoying to use nowadays, but if you can endure such minor issues then you will have a blast.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →True classic! 27 years later still not easy to beat the game =) To install OpenXcom over Steam-XCOM and to play with Steam-overlay (and Steam playtime counting): DOWNLOAD .zip from [url=https://openxcom.org/git-builds/]https://openxcom.org/git-builds/, for example openxcom_git_master_2022_10_25_0658.zip UNPACK it somewhere, there will be the folder named "openxcom" with some subfolders ("common", "standard", "TFTD", "UFO") and files ("openxcom.exe" and so on). COPY all of this FROM that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →2/10 deleting all 2k games right the ♥♥♥♥ off my PC cause the new terms of service are kernel levels of criminal.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →VERY IMPORTANT. Great game but only if you get the OpenXcom mod download. Amazing mod that optimises the game exceptionally well for modern systems. More importantly, it fixes a game breaking soft lock bug the original had, so only play if you get the mod.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →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 →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 →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
neutral · AI labelView post →Gameplay wise, I was hooked. Felt like a nice middle ground between the relatively simple Mario x Rabbids games and the crunchier X-COM games? I'm going to do an expert run now that I know how to exploit the game systems better.
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