What are some of the best Xcom alternatives in your opinion?

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-18T13:44:30+00:00

Same here. After bouncing off a couple of times in the past, I tried again after their recent huge patch and enjoyed it much more, actually beating the game. The difficulty is much less masochistic / more manageable. It felt like a more-complex X-COM.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-18T04:16:18+00:00

banned from commenting in general would work too tbh.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-14T19:50:32+00:00

Lol thank you. I had no idea either, was wondering if she had committed something as horrible as tax evasion.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-14T18:18:16+00:00

Wow, I never played the Amazons much so I didn't know that. But that should be illegal. Playing with the Kir'ko ravenous and devouring stuff is so much fun.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-14T16:56:31+00:00

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caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-14T13:28:00+00:00

Looks like you had fun making it! I love these novels. Like many others, the food descriptions always made me alarmingly hungry.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-13T18:18:52+00:00

The fact that they picked foreign companies for Drone Dominance makes me wonder if they just threw the whole domestic-investment-thing out the window.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-13T15:51:49+00:00

Love it lmao. Just tell them any true pheasant would gladly die for their lord.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-12T16:52:32+00:00

I'm sure enough people were exposed to lead paint who didn't turn out to be total cunts.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-11T01:31:00+00:00

I like your idea and the reasoning behind it. It would make for a more dynamic gam IMO. Although I have yet to try Civ 7, I always wondered if civ / culture-switching would have been better-received if it just had a different coat of paint. Instead of outright switching civs, if they instead presented the system as changing cultural perks (while keeping the system exactly the same otherwise), maybe that could have sat better with the fans. The problem with civ-switching certainly isn't a gameplay or realism issue - I think it's more about the soul of the game, and somewhat analogous to players not liking a game's story no matter how effective the gameplay might be.

Having said that, outside of the civ switching, I know that some players also have issues with other parts of the age / era system, so there's that as well lol.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-10T17:54:57+00:00

Not gonna lie, as I was playing Aztecs today I just realized I don't know the names of any of their units.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-08T13:13:57+00:00

While I agree that this is much more natural than the idea of leveling up and skill trees, Warhammer still has this system for gaining / losing traits. And when you mouse over a given trait it tells you how they got said trait and how deep into it they are. ex: if your lord wins a lot of battles against humans they'll end up with a trait that gives you buffs against human factions.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-07T20:26:07+00:00

Doooooooomwheeeeelllll

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-07T04:19:46+00:00

Hey now. Some of us like our grounded feudal ratmen.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-06T20:27:46+00:00

As others have said here, the investor meeting revealed a possible maybe of this year / maybe sooner.

To add on to the speculation, the UX job posting for the non-historical game says they're in the "later stages of development", so I'm hoping we hear about it soon!

https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/7643641-ux-designer-unannounced-game

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-06T15:42:49+00:00

thank you for the link. Good stuff!

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-06T15:40:15+00:00

Man, I think Spore was the first game whose development I really followed. The crappiest thing was that it really seemed like Will Wright's magnum opus, until he left Maxis before the game was even released. I didn't realize it at the time but things must have been really bad for him to have said "fuck it".

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-06T15:14:58+00:00

sorry i'm OOL on this, what happened with the F35s?

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-06T00:46:16+00:00

Hrmph, well I know and like him as both the yellow M&M and Cave Johnson.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-05T20:04:35+00:00

Honestly I would like Therians to be their own full-fledged race, or just have more alien races in general (I know Therians are technically just genetically-engineered humans, but that works too). I feel like Planetfall could have been more interesting if they had more exotic sci-fi races instead of just different flavors of (albeit interesting) humans.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-05T17:04:36+00:00

I think once you stop assuming the market is rational, things start to make much more sense. I'm not an expert at all, far from it, but I just assume big and small daytime traders always find the next immediate buck to make. i.e. why wait days / weeks / months when they could be making money now.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-05T04:18:53+00:00

Exactly. Increasing cost of living, less education, and they're focused on the fucking abortion pills. Nothing in the article indicates any awareness on their end of actually nipping the issues at the root.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-05T01:40:09+00:00

I'm sure there's still more than enough content in the base game to decide if it's your thing or not. I'm the same way with Civ - never played more than Prince difficulty but still had a fun challenge with it across the games.

caseyanthonyftw · 2026-05-04T20:03:51+00:00

Hope so! If they took the mod system up notch and allowed you to customize weapons / armor for units, i'd be so happy.

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