XCOM® 2
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9985% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 110,170
- Critics
- 88 players 3 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Strategy
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 33.2h
- To 100%
- 89.5h 2.7x the story
- Achievements
- 88
Price and sales
- Sales
- 100 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 February 2024
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,453 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
100 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jagged Alliance 3 ($11.24, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Cyber Knights: Flashpoint ($29.99, scores 55).
More about XCOM® 2
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 2,467 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 3 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.
Finishing takes 33.2 hours; clearing it takes 90, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
110,170 reviews stand behind that percentage.
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
An excellent, excellent turn-based strategy game. Highly recommended to anyone who is curious, loved the first Xcom, this one is just as fun, if a bit different. Difficult and unfair at times, sure - but love the scenarios, maps and monsters. I mean, this game may case you to cross your fingers and hold your breath on a 95% chance shot. Also, if I may - don't waste your ammo on psychically reanimated corpses.
2 more reviews
My favorite game of all time! Last run was 2021 when I beat the game on Commander difficulty. Now in 2026, I am back to try again -- after playing (and loving) SW ZCOM.
I really love the mechanics of this game and that you can play this with the trackpad and keyboard in you lap in any situation. Does not need a high-end setup either.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5770, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better, 45 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
XCOM® 2 scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268500/xcom-2Reviews 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 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.