X-COM: Enforcer

X-COM: Enforcer

Skip · Shooter · 2008

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 6, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Cost per hourA
$1.13/hr
Reviews▼
58% of 472
Critics
65 players 7 lower
Genre rank
Top 87% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
4.4h
To 100%
8h 1.8x 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
Lowest now $4.81 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.05 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
11% of its genre
Price and player charts

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 29, 11:56 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.

It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. STAR WARS™ Battlefront ($19.99, scores 56) outscores it, and so does The Bureau: XCOM Declassified ($19.99, scores 22). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about X-COM: Enforcer

Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 51 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.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$1.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 59% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds0 of 111 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

This game brings one of the greatest pc gaming childhood memories for me. The early 2000s gave us many great games, but in the genre of a scientist robot created with the sole purpose to save the world from the alien invaders, nothing beats X-COM Enforcer! I haven't played any other games from the XCOM series so i cannot compare this one to them, but this is a standalone masterpiece for its time. I'm here 20+ years...
reactRecommendedafter 12hJul 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Back in the day it was a slap in the face. We were promised an immersive 3d tactical Xcom game. We had this. It's a game where you (a robot) go pew pew killing everything and collecting power ups. No tactical approach no awesome history, no research new weapons, just pew pew. I bought it because it came in a franchise pack. Don't buy it. Edit: grammar
thelastone96Not recommendedafter 1.0hJul 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

X-COM: Earth's top-secret eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit The Place: America - early 21st century The Mission: Eradicate the extraterrestrials Alien forces have invaded Earth and are terrorizing the population.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
X-COM: Enforcer scores 6/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7770/x-com-enforcer
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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.

Critics vs players-7
Critics65
Players58
Metacritic critics · 472 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperMicroProse Software, Inc
Publisher2K
GenreShooter
Released2008
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate