Review and gallery - XCOM: Enemy Unknown, iOS devices, £13.99

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy On the face of it XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based game about fending off an alien invasion. The original XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released at the tail-end of 2012 to great fanfare and it’s been ported by 2K China and overseen by Firaxis, the studio who created the original game. And this is fair enough: why should we pay full price for a game that is two decades old and that we don’t, physically, own? So far I’ve spent 14 hours in the game, cruelly defeated by aliens at every turn as I slowly mastered my own defeats.