XCOM: Enemy Unknown
BANGER · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9960% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.56/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 58,870
- Critics
- 89 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26.7h
- To 100%
- 70.3h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 48% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 85
Price and sales
- Sales
- 107 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 April 2024
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 942 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 48% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 107 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, X-COM: UFO Defense ($4.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats XCOM®: Chimera Squad ($9.99, scores 32).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $20.88. It costs $14.99.
More about XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Steam's global achievement data puts 48 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 937 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, finite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 26.7 hours. Doing everything runs 70, 2.6 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
100% recommended. XCOM is easily one of the hardest single player games I've ever played (impossible + iron man + entire second wave is borderline masochistic experience) - "getting xcom'd" is known for a reason. If you are up for a challenge, this is the game.
2 more reviews
It's X-Com Baby, Enjoy getting stabbed, gassed, shot, blown up, mind controlled then enjoy it again enjoy your sniper with a 90% chance to hit and a height advantage missing, leading to a total wipe out, enjoy running out of money and everyone hating you, that's xcom baby! mod it, kiss it, love it, its the best game in the world, then move onto Xcom 2 and feel the pain like a new born baby stuck in a loop, then go...
As someone who is not familiar with turn based games, this game stresses me out. However, it feels incredibly good to reflect on what went wrong on the previous mission and come back to kick the aliens' ass
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
XCOM: Enemy Unknown scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/200510/xcom-enemy-unknownReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.