XCOM: Chimera Squad

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XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe. After years of alien rule, humanity won the war for Earth.

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Developer:
Firaxis Games
Publisher:
2K
Engine:
Unreal Engine 3
Release date:
23 April 2020
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All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (14591)

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Description

XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.

After years of alien rule, humanity won the war for Earth. But when the Overlords fled the planet, they left their former soldiers behind. Now, five years after the events of XCOM 2, humans and aliens are working together to forge a civilization of cooperation and coexistence.

Welcome to City 31, a model of peace in a post-invasion world. However, not all of Earth's inhabitants support interspecies alliance. Chimera Squad, an elite force of human and alien agents, must work together to destroy the underground threats driving the city toward chaos.

Your agents are unique: each of them equipped with special tactical abilities and driven by a different motivation for joining Chimera Squad. Deploy targeted team members to investigate and combat the dangers that pervade the districts of City 31. Lead Chimera Squad through a new experience that innovates on XCOM's turn-based legacy, utilizing strategy, teamwork, and new breach-and-clear gameplay to complete your mission objectives.

The future of City 31 depends on you.

Unique Alien and Human Agents


Each of the 11 agents have their own distinct personality and tactical abilities, including species-specific attacks like the Viper’s tongue pull.

Specialized and Complementary Classes


Execute devastating combos by teaming the right agents and utilizing cooperative actions. The difference between mission success and failure can depend wholly on team composition.

Re-Envisioned Tactical Combat


Missions are structured as a series of discrete, explosive encounters, keeping the action intense and unpredictable.

Breach Mode


Shape the battlefield to your advantage with a new combat phase that injects your squad right into action. Strategically assign your agents to different entry points and coordinate their assault with a range of Breach-specific skills.

Interleaved Turns


An automatic initiative system slots individual agents and enemies into an alternating turn order, creating new strategic possibilities based on what unit is queued to act next—and what unit is at the greatest risk when they do.

Suspenseful Strategy Layer


Outside of combat, manage the operations of a high-tech HQ, where you must prioritize competing tasks, investigations, and agent assignments in the face of a ticking clock: the constantly rising unrest in the city’s various districts, driving City 31 closer and closer to total anarchy.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7, 64-bit
Processor:
2.4 GHz Quad Core
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
1GB AMD Radeon HD 7770, NVIDIA GeForce 650 or better
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
18 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX Compatible
Additional Notes:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 and 2015 Runtime Libraries, and Microsoft DirectX.

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7 64bit / Windows 8.1 64bit / Windows 10 64bit
Processor:
3GHz Quad Core
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
2GB AMD Radeon HD R9 290, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 or better
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
18 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX Compatible

User reviews

Aizenhym
Not recommended | 03 May 2026
28.4h played

Chimera Squad as a strategy game is Not a bad game, but when you attach the XCOM logo on it, it's below average at best. While I do understand that it's Not a sequel but rather an off shoot of the XCOM franchise and

Helpful: 5
wavidian gimp
Not recommended | 17 May 2026
12.8h played

Leaving this negative review in the hopes that Firaxis one day learns. Stop trying to write characters. Your dialogue is testicular cancer inducing. Please fire the person that is giving my balls cancer. Gameplay is

Helpful: 1
Stryk3r
Recommended | 05 May 2026
32.1h played

It's not XCOM, it's Lancer (or a TTRPG to be more general, or D&D if you don't know what either of those mean). It's different, but that doesn't mean it's bad. tbf it's pretty buggy, the balance is iffy in places, and I

Helpful: 1
Chihiro
Recommended | 25 May 2026
18.6h played

While not a bad game overall XCOM Chimera Squad falls into some problems mainly with its undercooked story. The unique cast of characters are mainly the biggest positives along with a fairly accessible gameplay loop

Helpful: 1
A Whole Raw Potato
Not recommended | 25 Apr 2026
2.5h played

XCOM 2 doubled down on the awful narrative and mechanical changes from XCOM: EW, and this game somehow triples down on those. Go play Xenonauts 1 for a proper X-COM experience, Xenonauts 2 for something a little

Helpful: 5
Hyperlynx
Not recommended | 10 May 2026
7.3h played

I don't like infinitely respawning enemies. I don't like having a team of totally different abilities (even weapons) - when I play XCom I standardise. It's just too hard for my liking. Too many moving parts for my

Helpful: 1