XCOM 2
In gaming circles there’s a time-honored tradition: name the members of your XCOM squad after your friends and watch as they float or sink under the weight of the hostile alien threat in this intimate tactics series. XCOM: Enemy Unknown brought the storied franchise back and seemingly restored interest in turn-based tactics games like it, but XCOM 2 was when the genre really blew up. Everyone was playing it when it was released, and considering the higher difficulty of the sequel, it led to even funnier and brutal runs of teams composed of all your closest friends. XCOM 2 also has the benefit of being a sequel: it’s got more fleshed out mechanics, generally better features, and enjoyed much more support, including the War of the Chosen expansion that everyone seemed to love and better infrastructure to host mods. You can grab one of the defining tactics games of the 2010s by picking up XCOM 2 for $3, and if you’re interested, War of the Chosen will only run you another $4.
