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Posted February 21, 2018
Eador: Genesis is an old-looking but still a pretty neat fantasy turn-based strategy game. You explore new territories and you control your general, who can level up and be upgraded with spells/items/weapons/armour and your individual units can level up and gain upgrades, so there's a kind of RPG element to it at times, but if your units die then you gotta buy new ones to replace them so it can feel a bit grindy at times but for the most part it can be surprisingly addictive. Hope this helps!
Posted February 21, 2018
I've enjoyed the Blackguards series (both 1 and 2), it has both turn based combat and RPG (characters progression and equipment) features. Some people seem to not like them so much, though, so your mileage may vary.

PS. It's a fantasy setting in 'The Dark Eye' universe.
Posted February 22, 2018
Battle Brothers has a definite XCOM feel to the combat.

Julian Gollop is working on Phoenix Point which is his spiritual successor to XCOM - and it will be coming to GoG.
Posted February 22, 2018
Thank you all for the suggestions! A few of these were on my list to play already, so I will check them out.
Posted February 23, 2018
I very much recommend Halfway

Easy to learn, can be played in short bursts and if it's not challenging enough there's a game mode+ where everything is tougher. The game's most unpoplar feature (and the main reason for the many 3 star and less reviews) is the random hit chance feature. Personally, I greatly enjoyed that because it forces you to play in a tighter style using more cover. As a fellow original X-COM veteran I like to have that random hammer of misfortune coming down on the player. It can feel annoying to some players but as mentioned it creates a more "realistic" atmosphere with bullets flying around missing their target in the chaos of battle and makes you think twice about leaving your units out in the open taking pot shots instead of using all your action points for a juicy well placed shot.

The problem many people seem to have with this game is that they try to play it like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmck_Eu323Q
Post edited February 23, 2018 by awalterj
Posted February 23, 2018
An article on pcgamer just has come up about it (I don't think I know any of those though): https://www.pcgamer.com/the-xcom-like-games-coming-to-pc/
Posted February 23, 2018
Gorky 17 and Silent Storm - never played them, but always heard good things about them.
Posted February 24, 2018
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Matewis: In case you haven't checked it out yet, OpenXCom is a brilliant clone of the original which breathes new life into both it and Terror from the Deep. Apart from quality-of-life improvements like higher resolutions, mousewheel support and the remembering of equipment loadoats, it also has tons of optional features that integrate well into the gameplay eg. strafing, explosives damaging multiple z-levels and grenades that detonate immediately upon impact. Then there are interesting mods available that add stuff that were originally meant to be in the game, like Men in Black, and tons of other equipment like shotguns, sniper rifles and brass knuckles.
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JA2 is also worth checking out for any turn based tactics fan. The vanilla game is great by itself, but the notorious 1.13 mod turns it into a masterpiece imo. Perhaps the best part about it is the personality of the massive roster of mercenaries. Each one is brilliantly voice acted with many love/hate relationships between them
Do you know if the Openxcom ppl are working on TFTD and Apocalypse too?
Posted February 24, 2018
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Crosmando: Do you know if the Openxcom ppl are working on TFTD and Apocalypse too?
Last I heard they were indeed busy with Apocalypse. As for TFTD, that already works with openxcom. I finished TFTD last year using openxcom.
Posted February 24, 2018
I recommend to try Vigilantes (currently available on Steam). This game has very similar to X-Com combat system.
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