XCOM: Enemy Within

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XCOM: Enemy Within is the expansion to the 2012 Game of the Year award-winning strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Enemy Within adds an incredible array of new abilities, upgrades and weapons to combat new enemy and alien threats.

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Developer:
Firaxis Games
Publisher:
2K Games
Engine:
Unreal Engine 3
Release date:
14 November 2013
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All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (1184)

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Description

XCOM: Enemy Within is the expansion to the 2012 Game of the Year award-winning strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Enemy Within adds an incredible array of new abilities, upgrades and weapons to combat new enemy and alien threats. This expansion also introduces new maps and missions, new tactical and strategic gameplay, and new multiplayer content providing a fresh new gameplay experience.

Key Features

  • New Soldier Abilities: Construct the Genetics Lab to physically enhance your operatives’ abilities including augmentations to the chest, brain, eyes, skin, and legs or build the Cybernetics Lab to enable the construction of the new Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit, or MEC. The new MEC Trooper class has specialized abilities and each suit can be upgraded with new weapons including the flamethrower and grenade launcher.
  • New Weapons and Equipment: Give your operatives an extra tactical edge with new projects from your engineering team and the Foundry.
  • New Enemy Threats: Adopt new tactics to counter the threats from two new alien types and a deadly new organization known as EXALT.
  • New Strategic Resource: A valuable new alien resource, known as Meld, has been discovered. Secure it on the battlefield and use it carefully back at base to unlock new research and upgrades.
  • New Tactical Challenges and Maps: Cloak-and-dagger and intelligence operations provide new tactical challenges on over 40 new battlefields.
  • New Multiplayer maps, units, and abilities: Create your custom squad from a wider array of options and dominate your opponent in intense, one-on-one, turn-based matches.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows Vista or later
Processor:
2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz) CPU
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
256 MB Video Memory NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater
Storage:
20 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX compatible sound card

recommended*

OS *:
Windows 7
Processor:
2.4 GHz Quad Core CPU
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
512MB Video Memory ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series/NVIDIA GeForce 9000 Series or greater
Storage:
20 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX compatible sound card

User reviews

Nasskred
Not recommended | 08 Jun 2025

I love XCOM, but F 2k, don't buy it here and go for the one in GOG instead or dont do it at all. 2k just banned mods on its EULA and gave themselves rights to revoke your game license if you use mods. Oh, and they also

Helpful: 50
Big Conn
Not recommended | 05 Jun 2025

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense •

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tovie
Not recommended | 01 Jul 2025

so this is just spyware now? updates like this years after i bought the game should be illegal!

Helpful: 27
Mertius
Recommended | 10 Feb 2025

Enemy Within is the quintessential way to play XCom. It's basically the same glorious base game with a ton of added features. Story-wise, it doesn't remove or replace missions, just adds to them, and the difficulty

Helpful: 8
Yes Fantasy
Not recommended | 24 Feb 2025

This DLC is currently broken, game no longer launches at all. Previously ran fine. But recent update from Steam has caused game not to launch at all anymore. There are scores of player 'fixes' on discussions etc, but

Helpful: 6
Jacqx
Recommended | 29 Dec 2025

I love the game. I played the game many times on my phone and my tablet. I can't get enough. I also like the other XCOM products like XCOM2. I hope for an XCOM3 or other versions with the XCOM theme.

Helpful: 1