XCOM 2

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XCOM 2

Short description

XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

Developer
Feral Interactive (Linux), Feral Interactive (Mac), Firaxis Games
Publisher
2K, Feral Interactive (Linux), Feral Interactive (Mac)
Release
Thu, Feb 04, 2016
Price
$19.99
$2.99
85%
best price ever
Reviews
80,302
Positive
85%
Followers
293,978
Owners (estimated)
5M – 10M
Concurrent players
3,123
Genres
Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Remote Play on Tablet
Tags
Isometric Turn-Based Combat Post-apocalyptic Turn-Based Tactics Military PvE Top-Down Turn-Based Sci-fi Character Customization Logic War Turn-Based Strategy RPG Grid-Based Movement Alternate History Tactical Perma Death Action Singleplayer
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$100msomewhere between $100m and $128m · roughly 5M–6.4M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $19.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

69 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$98.8m → ~$100m
Reviews 79,399 → 80,302
Followers 293,089 → 293,978
Concurrent players 3,123 → 3,123
Price $19.99 → $2.99
Positive reviews 84.9% → 84.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 312 further data points reach back to Sep 10, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Feb 22, 2024. That is the current price.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around XCOM 2 is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Isometric + Turn-Based Combat + Post-apocalyptic

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