I just love #TurnBased #games so much more than anything else. Especially today, where everything feels fast, loud and overwhelming, I need games that actually give me time to #think.

With #RealTime you react, with #TurnBased you #plan. That is a huge difference. I sit there, analyse the #situation, think three moves ahead, and when my #strategy pays off, it feels genuinely rewarding.

On top of that: #TurnBasedGames are almost always more #complex and #deep. #XCOM, #BattleTech, #TacticsOgre, these games demand real #thinking. No muscle memory, no reflexes, just pure #strategy.

In a world full of #notifications, #stress and constant #overstimulation, this is almost like #meditation for me.

My #pace, my #decisions, my #game.

#Gaming #Retrogaming #TurnBasedStrategy #LinuxGaming #Tactics

Firaxis is celebrating 30 years by bringing XCOM to the tabletop as a new miniatures game developed by Modiphius Entertainment.

https://gamesbriefly.news/xcom-is-getting-a-miniatures-tabletop-game-as-part-of-firaxis-30th-anniversary

#XCOM #TabletopGaming #Firaxis

🕹️ Title: X-COM: Apocalypse (with OpenApoc engine)
🦊️ Idea: The 3rd part of the X-COM series & a libre engine
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🐣️ https://github.com/OpenApoc/OpenApoc/
🔖 #LinuxGaming #TBS #XCOM
📦️ #LibreEngine #CommercialAssets
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 20260408
⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/OpenApoc/OpenApoc/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/OpenApoc/OpenApoc/releases.atom

🏝️(o) https://www.youtube.com/embed/SLszyMew_Q4
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dezt8MrdZD8
🎮️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/t47gqvHg2m4

Anyone interested in a GOG-code for #XCOM Enemy Unknown + Enemy Within?

The relaunch of the XCOM series combines base building with simplified but challenging turn-based combat in an aliens-invade-earth-scenario. I really liked it.

#Gaming #Videogames

I wonder if I'm like the only person out there who back in the 90s loved X-Com: Terror from the deep?

A lot of people say it's just a lazy asset swap, which it in some places is, but I always found the underwater exploration more ominous and curious than the land based first games in the series. Naturally I've finished both several times.

I only learned that people had hated the second game when the current era X-Com remake came out and I wondered if they'd make a similar sequel to it as the original.

#xcom

XCOM seems to be dead. Sad.
#videogames #xcom

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/strategy/10-years-later-and-with-no-xcom-3-in-sight-im-in-love-with-xcom-2-now-more-than-ever/