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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

X-COM 2: War of the Chosen:

I've played this game off and on for years. Fondly wishing I could get back to it and just not having the time. Then I caught strep throat and literally couldn't do anything but just play games.

Honestly? Finally. I felt like crap, but I was so happy to have an excuse to just enjoy myself instead of being obsessed with what I "had" to do.

The game changed a lot since I last played so I had to start a new save, and I'm having a blast. I love this game so much even with some of its flaws. Do your squaddies miss a 90% shot sometimes? Yes. Infuriating.

But when they make that hail-Mary hit that saves a teammate, or you sneak through a compound to break out an imprisoned comrade and exfil, it's ADDICTING.

Also, not gonna lie...the game hits a little different in 2025, seeing as it's about being resistance fighters waging insurgency and a propaganda war against an alien occupying authoritarian regime that is kidnapping people and hauling them to blacksites. Man, that uh, is a little uncomfortably close. (But it's only a game...The aliens are actually competent.)

The custom voice packs are incredible too. (My sniper with a Bob Ross voice calmly saying "Let's do a little painting today." Or "Let's get a little crazy." When setting up a shot from across the map never gets old.

This game's complete version I've seen on Steam for like $5 before. This is one of the best tactical experiences there is, and at first I hated the "pressure" this game puts on you, but I've come to enjoy the urgency and being forced to weigh difficult decisions rather than just sending my "A-Team" of snowflake OCs to clear every single mission at a leisurely pace haha.

And the soundtrack. Oh man. Once that "Ready for Battle" track hits where you select everybody's loadout, you really feel the weight of assembling the right squad when you never know 100% what you're about to send them into.