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This 2016 turn-based tactics game puts players in command of a resistance force against alien occupiers. With over 78,000 Steam reviews at an 85% positive rating, XCOM 2 offers deep strategic combat. It was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
Overview
XCOM® 2 is a 2016 Strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K. On Steam it has gathered 78,860 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Strategy category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Firaxis Games with publisher 2K is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Strategy projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.8 million to 8.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, XCOM® 2 can be compared against similar Strategy titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
78,860
Positive
85%
Steam appid
268500
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.03.8M to 8.8M
units (median: 6.3M)
≈ $43.2M to $100.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_85% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for XCOM® 2 at roughly 3.8 million to 8.8 million copies, with a median around 6.3 million, derived from its 78,860 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $72.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.28Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.28 to $19.99, averaging $18.54 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.28 on 2026-06-07.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has XCOM® 2 sold?
- indielist estimates XCOM® 2 has sold between 3,785,280 and 8,832,320 units (median 6,308,800), derived from its 78,860 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed XCOM® 2?
- XCOM® 2 was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
- When was XCOM® 2 released?
- XCOM® 2 was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does XCOM® 2 have on Steam?
- XCOM® 2 has 78,860 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions XCOM® 2 within the Strategy segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Firaxis Games's other releases and 2K's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where XCOM® 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same XCOM® 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Strategy game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.