Don’t let this get you to thinking that your people are helpless though. The enemies present in the demo still have a longer sight radius than your soldiers have so you can still expect some shots from the dark. Just one shot from an enemy is enough to fell a soldier. With the engine being changed over to Unity, and the game now being 3d instead of 2d, you are now able to rotate the camera which is really nice after coming from a single, stuck isometric view.Ĭombat is still as lethal as it was in the previous game. Another new feature is full camera rotation. You also have some new features such as being able to queue up a move and check your shots from that position. You still have your time units (TUs) which you use to move around and shoot and you still have some of the extra things Xenonauts added into the formula like suppression. It plays pretty similarly to the original X-Com and the first Xenonauts. The bulk of this demo is the ground combat and it feels pretty solid so far considering that it is for a Kickstarter. I also like how they released this little demo to the public so you can test out what the game has to offer before you give it some money. It made me more encouraged to play through it multiple times. I do appreciate how each of my attempts felt different. Sometimes, all eight of my units will survive, and others I’ll surfer heavy casualties. I have played this mission about four times and each one has felt different. Each time you play, you will get the same map and the same units, but the aliens do appear to spawn in different areas. They also released a free combat demo which is what we will be checking out. At the time of writing this, Xenonauts 2 is currently on Kickstarter seeking funding and has already achieved two times their goal. Now, Goldhawk Interactive is working on Xenonauts 2 which is supposed to be like a remade Xenonauts with altered setting and a better engine. It also played more like the original X-Com than Firaxis’s then recently released XCOM Enemy Unknown. It was a decent game, though it did have some problems, but it was one of the few TBS options you had at the time. It was during this time that Goldhawk Interactive’s Xenonauts was first released. Back around 2010, there weren’t many coming out. In the recent years, there has been a surge of turn-based strategy (TBS) games hitting the market, but there was once a time that there wasn’t too many to choose from. Price: Free combat demo, different Kickstarter tiers for different levels of access.
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