X-COM: Apocalypse
Worth it · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $1.24 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 970
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 32.5h
- To 100%
- 63.8h 2.0x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 October 2013
- Sale every
- 48d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
Players
- Players online
- 10 when we last checked, on Oct 29, 22:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
Across all 71 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, X-COM: UFO Defense ($4.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel ($9.99, scores 56).
More about X-COM: Apocalypse
None of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. 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
One of the best games in the Xcom universe that they never tried to replicate. This game was so much fun and took up so much of my youth and continues to take up peoples times today. I wish the OpenApoc was easier to install but its github looks complicated. Maybe oneday 2k will remake X-com Apoc into X-com 3 or maybe phoenix Point 2 and Phoenix Point 3 will follow the amazing paths.
2 more reviews
It was pretty hard to get back into, but once I got used to the tactical map's shortcomings it was a lot of fun to play this again. ~50 hrs to finish the campaign on max difficulty.
Probably the greatest game of all time, though some broken things being from the time was WELL above it's age.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Supported 32Mb Graphics Card, 61 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
X-COM: Apocalypse scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7660/x-com-apocalypseReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.