2016 · Turn-Based Combat · Tactical · RPG
How long isXCOM 2?
by Firaxis Games & Feral Interactive (Mac)
49 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 18 hours and 125 hours
XCOM 2 among the 174 turn-based tactics games here
The whole tier list#5
of 174
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 64%
- got past 2 hours
- +23 on the kind's 41%
- 30%
- past 20 hours
- +20 on the kind's 10%
- 71%
- launched it
- +17 on the kind's 54%
- 380
- libraries own it
- 1 in 6 of the 2,453 read here
Next to it in the ranking
A real bargain: 41¢ an hour, cheaper than 217 of 223 turn-based tactics games here.
40% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
68% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
72% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
78% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
86% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
91% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
92% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
93% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
95% recommend it past 500 hours
Does XCOM 2 hold up?
Grows on people
68% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% past 500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of XCOM 2 tell you?
In the first two hours40%recommend it
After that86%recommend it
15 in 100 said no: 13 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 49 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 18 hours and 125 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 110,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 68% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% past 500 hours.
4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 40% of those recommend it. After the window, 86% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 86% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 17 hours in.
When would you get there?
7weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 49 hours on Friday, January 1, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 18 and 125 hours: Dec 1 to Mar 18, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in XCOM 2?
The filter
A God Falls
9 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Codebreaker and never earned it.
How this is counted
57% of the players who launched XCOM 2 hold A Horrible Truth, its first story achievement on Steam, and 31% hold Earth Avenged, its last. The steepest drop comes between Codebreaker (49%) and A God Falls (40%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Before you play XCOM 2
Where did you leave it?
Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.
No Steam, or played it elsewhere?
Is XCOM 2 worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
XCOM 2
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 49 h
- turn-based tactics game rate
- $1.67/h
- 49 h at that rate
- $82
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is XCOM 2 worth it? Yes.
A steal
4.1× the hours of a typical turn-based tactics game, for the same money
Liked
86% recommend it after the refund windowmost turn-based tactics games: 87%
Gets played
71% of owners here have played itmost turn-based tactics games: 59%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 49 hours come to 41¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 41¢ an hour, XCOM 2 is cheaper per hour than 217 of 223 turn-based tactics games here: the typical one of 223 turn-based tactics games here charges $1.67, so the same $19.99 buys 4.1× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (turn-based tactics games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play XCOM 2 today?
Almost anywhere
PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One and 2 more.
- todayPS42018in XCOM 2 Collection
- todayPC2018in XCOM 2 Collection
- todayXbox One2018in XCOM 2 Collection
- todaySwitch2020
- todayiPhone2020in XCOM 2 Collection
- todayAndroid2021in XCOM 2 Collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines XCOM 2 came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like XCOM 2?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like XCOM 2, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long XCOM 2 would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with XCOM 2?
1 in 48
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
In @dougtheduck's Top 4
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from XCOM 2: a kind of game it is that XCOM 2 is not, a feature its tags carry that XCOM 2's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.