http://www.xenonauts2.com/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-02-04-xenonauts-2-confirmed-and-hopefully-out-in-2017

Thanks to the excitement surrounding XCOM 2 (have I mentioned we gave it an Essential yet?), developer Goldhawk Interactive has confirmed Xenonauts 2 is now in the works.

The original game released back in 2014 after a year in Early Access and was heavily inspired by the '94 classic, UFO: Enemy Unknown. This proved both a blessing and a curse as XCOM fans enjoyed the sense of nostalgia, but some players were turned off by a few rather outdated design choices. That fixed camera perspective, for example. Ugh.

"The experience and income we have accumulated from the development of Xenonauts mean that we can make a sequel that significantly improves and expands on the first game," explained the developer. "And this time we can be more innovative than before."

Yeah, sounds great - but what does that actually mean? Well according to the announcement itself, we're looking at some pretty major changes. Amongst other things, Xenonauts 2 will see the series move from 2D sprites to 3D graphics, a reworking of the air combat, and a complete overhaul of how the aliens look and play, leading to "a more intelligent and challenging foe". The setting's different too, with this game taking place during an alternate timeline in which the aliens arrive during the Cold War. This all sounds very, very welcome.

As with its predecessor, Xenonauts 2 will first arrive in Early Access at a discounted price and players will be encouraged to help shape the game's development. It will, however, be a little more complete than Xenonauts by the time it reaches this stage.

In the developer's own words: "...people expect more from Early Access games these days!"

I am more hyped about this.
I hope they will release this one too on gog.

Excellent news

Xenonauts 2, XCOM 2, and console TBS are finally starting to make their way to PC. It's a good time to be alive :D

Xenonauts 2. Excellent. GOG's answer to X-not-here-com.

That's really good news. I loved the original X-Com games and Xenonauts is a more than worthy successor.

yeah!!! (better play the first one....)

I need to grab the first one next time it's on sale.

I do wonder about that 3D thing. I'll wait and see...

Now as an In Dev game, to a critical acclaim! /s

Ehh, 3D can be done well. It has been, many times. Probably no need for the wailing and rending of garments until you see how they implement it. Xenonauts wasn't a bad game, and it was surely made by people with their hearts in the right place for old X-Com fans.

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I didn't mind the fixed camera. The only real negative about Xenonauts I can think of is that there were too few ground combat maps. On the later half of the game I just started airstriking everything because I didn't want to play the same maps again. I even skipped building the last superweapon and the last interceptor because they would have required the alien whatever power core thingy that would have required me to play more of the ground combat, in the same maps...

That said, looking forward to Xenonauts 2 (hoping it will be on Linux ofc).

Did you try Skitso's Ultimate Megamix Map Pack 2000? It will give you more than 70 new maps and many of them are far more interesting than the standard one.

Does anyone remember what was the biggest discount on Xenonauts on GOG?