
Overview
About XCOM: Enemy Unknown
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactics game with a strategic management layer, and a reimagining of the 1994 strategy title UFO: Enemy Unknown. Players lead a squad of soldiers through turn-based combat missions against alien forces, using cover, positioning, and class-based abilities, where fallen soldiers can be lost permanently. Between missions, players oversee a central base: researching recovered alien technology, building facilities, managing funds, and deciding which global threats to respond to as they try to keep member nations from abandoning the project.
Story setup
Set in an alternate version of 2015, the game begins as an alien force launches a coordinated invasion of Earth. In response, a coalition of nations forms XCOM, an elite multinational military and scientific organization tasked with defending the planet. The player takes the role of XCOM's commander, directing soldiers against an enemy with far more advanced technology while studying the aliens to understand their purpose and turn their own discoveries against them.
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At a glance
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Playtime
How long to beat
Player-reported completion times for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
- Rushed
- 15hoursMain story only
- Typical
- 31hoursStory plus some extras
- Completionist
- 54hoursEvery side objective too
Estimated from 12 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.
Playing together
Multiplayer & game modes
XCOM: Enemy Unknown offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.
Play Modes
Single Player • Multiplayer
Content
Age ratings
How rating boards around the world have classified XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Open a board for its content descriptors.
ACBMA 15+
ESRBM
- Strong Language
- Blood and Gore
- Violence
GRAC15+
- Violence
PEGI18
- Violence
The game contains realistic looking violence throughout with characters producing blood when shot and dead bodies remaining on the ground.
USK16
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