Absolutely fantastic!
I can’t believe I didn’t see this game on App Store until now. I’ve seen reviews going several years back, so it must have been out a while, but somehow I didn’t even know it existed despite me looking for it in the past many times. Weird… As a long time XCom fan I’ve previously purchased XCom unknown, but that game was clunky and difficult to play on iPhone. Not enjoyable at all. This however is a different gravy. Obviously a small phone screen isn’t ideal, but the game does a really good job to overcome that disadvantage, feeling easy to control and intuitive. And this will only improve if you can play on iPad or something with more inches. UI is easy to understand and control. The game is nice and polished, quite impressive actually. Most mobile games are a big downgrade either on graphics or gameplay from the full version. This looks and plays exactly like the original. Even having 1 or 2 little quality of life improvements over the original I’d love to have in the console version. Technically it’s quite impressive too. Playing on iPhone 14 currently for about a week now. It doesn’t overheat at all and the battery last several hours too. It really is impressive how polished and optimised this game is. Especially compared to some other games that are far more simple and worse looking, but overheat enough to cook pizza. It can sometimes get a little slow on the boot, but only for about 30 seconds. After that the game is fast, consistent and smooth. With very few bugs too. At least I haven’t encountered any major issues. Feral did an excellent job with this one. I’ll have to keep an eye out for more of their games.
