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Classic X-COM-like Xenonauts 2 is heading to early access later this yearIt should be hitting Steam sometime between April and June
It should be hitting Steam sometime between April and June
Image credit:Hooded Horse
Image credit:Hooded Horse
It’s inevitable that as soon as you make a list of yourmost anticipated gamesfor the year, more excellent games start getting announced the moment you hit publish. Case in point: Goldhawk Interactive’s long-awaitedXenonauts 2has just been confirmed to be heading to Steam early access later this year. Huzzah! The original Xenonauts wasan excellent homageto the hyphenated school of X-COMs / UFO: Enemy Unknowns of old, so I’m feeling pretty pumped to find out how its sequel builds on its classic, squad-based tactics.Xenonauts 2 - Gameplay Trailer | Turn-Based Tactical Alien InvasionWatch on YouTubeMuch like Xenonauts 1, Xenonauts 2 will see you take control of a multi-national military organisation in order to defend Earth from an alien invasion, which you’ll be doing in good ol' turn-based fashion. On top of some spruced up visuals, Goldhawk have said they’ll be adding more maps to Xenonauts 2, a larger tech tree, a more detailed and immersive strategic layer in its GeoScape, and plenty of new aliens this time round as well, many of which you can glimpse in its shiny new gameplay trailer above.Xenonauts 2 wasfirst announcedsix years ago - the week Firaxis' XCOM 2 came out, no less. Back then, it was slated to release sometime in 2017 at the earliest, and for a time there was afree, early versionpeople could play over on GOG. Goldhawk eventually decided to raise additional development funds via a Kickstarter campaign in 2018, releasinganother free demoto coincide with it (which is still available to play today onGOGif you fancy seeing what’s what).It took all of 12 hours for the Kickstarter to get successfully funded, and a closed beta then followed for backers, with an intended early access launch slated for March 2019. However, as the scope of the game grew, Goldhawk decided to extend the closed beta and delay the jump to early access, stating that they didn’t feel it was ready back then. And as you can see from Goldhawk’sextensive update logon their Kickstarter page, thestrategy gameseems to have grown quite a bit in the intervening years! There’s now dynamic maps, new biomes, and revamped air combat in the mix, to name just a few.I’m excited, and with an early access release onSteamscheduled for sometime between April and June, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for a more precise early access date in the coming months.
It’s inevitable that as soon as you make a list of yourmost anticipated gamesfor the year, more excellent games start getting announced the moment you hit publish. Case in point: Goldhawk Interactive’s long-awaitedXenonauts 2has just been confirmed to be heading to Steam early access later this year. Huzzah! The original Xenonauts wasan excellent homageto the hyphenated school of X-COMs / UFO: Enemy Unknowns of old, so I’m feeling pretty pumped to find out how its sequel builds on its classic, squad-based tactics.Xenonauts 2 - Gameplay Trailer | Turn-Based Tactical Alien InvasionWatch on YouTubeMuch like Xenonauts 1, Xenonauts 2 will see you take control of a multi-national military organisation in order to defend Earth from an alien invasion, which you’ll be doing in good ol' turn-based fashion. On top of some spruced up visuals, Goldhawk have said they’ll be adding more maps to Xenonauts 2, a larger tech tree, a more detailed and immersive strategic layer in its GeoScape, and plenty of new aliens this time round as well, many of which you can glimpse in its shiny new gameplay trailer above.Xenonauts 2 wasfirst announcedsix years ago - the week Firaxis' XCOM 2 came out, no less. Back then, it was slated to release sometime in 2017 at the earliest, and for a time there was afree, early versionpeople could play over on GOG. Goldhawk eventually decided to raise additional development funds via a Kickstarter campaign in 2018, releasinganother free demoto coincide with it (which is still available to play today onGOGif you fancy seeing what’s what).It took all of 12 hours for the Kickstarter to get successfully funded, and a closed beta then followed for backers, with an intended early access launch slated for March 2019. However, as the scope of the game grew, Goldhawk decided to extend the closed beta and delay the jump to early access, stating that they didn’t feel it was ready back then. And as you can see from Goldhawk’sextensive update logon their Kickstarter page, thestrategy gameseems to have grown quite a bit in the intervening years! There’s now dynamic maps, new biomes, and revamped air combat in the mix, to name just a few.I’m excited, and with an early access release onSteamscheduled for sometime between April and June, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for a more precise early access date in the coming months.
It’s inevitable that as soon as you make a list of yourmost anticipated gamesfor the year, more excellent games start getting announced the moment you hit publish. Case in point: Goldhawk Interactive’s long-awaitedXenonauts 2has just been confirmed to be heading to Steam early access later this year. Huzzah! The original Xenonauts wasan excellent homageto the hyphenated school of X-COMs / UFO: Enemy Unknowns of old, so I’m feeling pretty pumped to find out how its sequel builds on its classic, squad-based tactics.
Xenonauts 2 - Gameplay Trailer | Turn-Based Tactical Alien InvasionWatch on YouTube
Xenonauts 2 - Gameplay Trailer | Turn-Based Tactical Alien Invasion
Much like Xenonauts 1, Xenonauts 2 will see you take control of a multi-national military organisation in order to defend Earth from an alien invasion, which you’ll be doing in good ol' turn-based fashion. On top of some spruced up visuals, Goldhawk have said they’ll be adding more maps to Xenonauts 2, a larger tech tree, a more detailed and immersive strategic layer in its GeoScape, and plenty of new aliens this time round as well, many of which you can glimpse in its shiny new gameplay trailer above.
Xenonauts 2 wasfirst announcedsix years ago - the week Firaxis' XCOM 2 came out, no less. Back then, it was slated to release sometime in 2017 at the earliest, and for a time there was afree, early versionpeople could play over on GOG. Goldhawk eventually decided to raise additional development funds via a Kickstarter campaign in 2018, releasinganother free demoto coincide with it (which is still available to play today onGOGif you fancy seeing what’s what).
It took all of 12 hours for the Kickstarter to get successfully funded, and a closed beta then followed for backers, with an intended early access launch slated for March 2019. However, as the scope of the game grew, Goldhawk decided to extend the closed beta and delay the jump to early access, stating that they didn’t feel it was ready back then. And as you can see from Goldhawk’sextensive update logon their Kickstarter page, thestrategy gameseems to have grown quite a bit in the intervening years! There’s now dynamic maps, new biomes, and revamped air combat in the mix, to name just a few.
I’m excited, and with an early access release onSteamscheduled for sometime between April and June, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for a more precise early access date in the coming months.
