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Xenonauts is a single-player PC-only strategy game. Primarily a strategy game, it straddles several genres and is best described as a ‘planetary defence simulator'. The player is in control of an organisation tasked with defending the planet against extraterrestrial invasion; establishing bases all across the world that house aircraft, scientists, technicians and soldiers and using them to resarch and unlcok alien technology while defending the skies against alien incursion and striking at crashed UFOs or terror sites on the ground to capture new artefacts and technology to study.

The game is heavily inspired by the classic X-Com / UFO: Enemy Unknown, released in the mid-90s by the now-defunct Microprose. It is not a straight remake; though the core mechanics remain similar much has changed or been updated – so much so, in fact, that we prefer the term ‘reimagining’ to ‘remake’.

It's more a commentary on the attitudes of some people I know who mock X-Com homag devs that bitch about the 2k X-COM but then turn around and take out or lessen the "essence" of what makes X-Com X-Com, like the super fragile soldiers who can sometimes be massacred at the very beginning of a terror mission, leaving one lone, quivering grunt who has to attempt to finish the thing himself, making for a good story if he succeeds.