For instance, sometimes, the UI still gives you a hard time with the drop boxes’ selections, which you tend to miss sometimes. It’s pretty and slick at places, like the majority of the soldier’s equipment screen (as seen above), but it’s still a bit blurry and clunky in some areas. Soldier equipping screen - Detail and flexibilityĬoncerning the base UI, it’s functional but I think Goldhawk can still do better. The original X-COM is an acclaimed game due to its tense and frightening atmosphere mixed with a sense of wonder when you meet the aliens and get in contact with their highly advanced technology. But, when more direct action is required you also play the role of a tactics officer in charge of controlling a squad of elite soldiers that will face the aliens on the battlefield. You must manage this organization, which, among other duties, includes hiring personal, acquiring interceptor planes and conduct advanced research and development. If you’re not familiarized with X-COM or Xenonauts, these games let you play the role of the commander of a secret organization assembled to face a sudden alien threat of unknown origin and purpose. So, if you’re familiarized with X-COM, you’ll feel right at home playing Goldhawk’s remake because while the setting and the art styles are completely different (X-COM puts you in a futuristic 1998 where Xenonauts puts you in the middle of the Cold War period), the game concept, and the main mechanics, are basically the same. The title is highly inspired by Julian Gollop’s X-COM: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) from 1994 (X-COM from this point forward), for which Goldhawk wants to create a “spiritual successor”. Xenonauts is a sci-fi turn-based squad tactics strategy game being developed by indie studio Goldhawk Interactive.

Xenonauts base upgrade