Choosing which missions to tackle and when is crucial to keeping unrest in check. Too much anarchy, and it’s game over as City 31 collapses around you. Leaving situations to fester in specific districts will gradually lead to unrest and anarchy. Classic, pre-reboot XCOM fans may recognise the XCOM: Apocalypse vibes. Instead of trying to manage a globe-trotting force saving the whole world like in XCOM 1 and 2, Chimera Squad is confined to a single city split up into numerous districts. How this spin-off differs from prior XCOM games is in scope. With luck, your rookies will one day become hardened elites. You manage your base of operations, research and develop new equipment, kit out your soldiers, and train them as they gain experience. The management aspect plays as you might expect. This is split up into two phases, each with their own strategic aspects: the overall squad and city management, then the missions themselves. It’s a turn-based strategy game where you outfit and lead a small squad to battle overwhelming odds. That notion is challenged by tension from Elder sympathisers, rogue organisations rejecting coexistence, and just day-to-day chaos of a big city.Ĭhimera Squad plays very similarly to the main XCOM games before it.
Given that we’re all sharing and rebuilding an Earth now, this leads to the formation of City 31, a place where all the species can try to coexist. However, now there are many displaced extraterrestrials stranded on Earth with nowhere to go, looking to live a life free of their overlords. Humans won the war against the invading aliens and drove off their Elder leaders to retake Earth. XCOM: Chimera Squad takes place five years after XCOM 2. It’s not trying to be a full sequel, yet it should absolutely sate the appetites of those wanting more XCOM until such a release. But for all that, it is priced like a budget game and delivers a good amount of quality content. Most likely, it was XCOM 2 DLC that became its own standalone entity. It’s a spinoff made by a small team within Firaxis that takes the setting and gameplay formula of XCOM in a new direction. With the hints and setup for an XCOM 3? Chimera Squad looks nothing like that. The dislikes on the reveal videos suggest that people were unhappy with it though, and I don’t exactly blame them. It was announced without fanfare just a few days ago, slated to release less than a fortnight later. XCOM: Chimera Squad is quite the pleasant surprise.
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