Last week, Feral Interactive announced that the XCOM 2 Collection ($14.99) from 2K and Firaxis is coming to iOS as a premium release. This follows the tease from the company previously. If you aren’t familiar with Feral Interactive, they bring classic PC games to mobile and do fantastic ports across all platforms including Nintendo Switch. Som of their work includes Company of Heroes, Tropico, Rome: Total War, and more. The XCOM 2 Collection has already been ported to Nintendo Switch (with a big download needed) for the physical release and it will be on iOS in around two weeks. Watch the XCOM 2 Collection iOS pre-order trailer below:
The XCOM 2 Collection releases on November 5th for iOS as a premium port. You can now pre-order it on the App Store for iOS here. It is priced at £23.99 / $24.99 / €27,99 on iOS. For reference, this collection is usually priced at $49.99 on Nintendo Switch. On iOS, it requires iOS 13.1 and later. For devices, it runs on iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus, and any iPhone since the iPhone X. For iPad, it runs on all iPad Pros released since 2017 and all iPad models released since 2019. The full list of supported devices on iOS is here. Check out the XCOM 2 Collection iOS website here for screenshots of the conversion. I’m very curious to see how it runs on newer iOS devices compared to the consoles. Considering this is a Feral Interactive release, we won’t need to worry about device support and future iOS updates either. Have you played it on any platform yet?
This is an amazing game but I have a really hard time trusting 2K to keep it updated and running on new devices and also not to just pull the plug on it altogether. Xcom is still not updated for newer devices on ios and never forget what they did with Bioshock. Although I'd love to have this game in my pocket I'll just stick with the Xbox version where I know the game will still exist in a year.
This is being published by Feral not 2K. They specialise in mobile games and have a decent track record of supporting games throughout OS updates.
Rome Total War has had 10 updates over the last 3 years adding extra support and features for example.
I've finished XCOM EW on the iPad at least four times. I don't understand while it got so low review scores. It was mostly the intact XCOM experience, minus some maps and special events. I've played it first on an iPad Mini 4 (which was struggling at times with it) and then on an iPad Air 2019 (which loads it so fast!).
So I'm tempted to get XCOM 2. I've actually never played it but it is tempting, oh, so tempting.
Its a VERY deep game, so much going on, I own it on PS4 and very much looking forward to owning it on ipad though I dont think it will be a day one purchase. I have never completed it but got a long way then real life kept interrupting but I can tell you that 'War of the Chosen' is very hard and adds lots of new stuff. May be worth completing the game vanilla.. waiting a bit and then playing again with all the DLC.. its like 2 different games. On iPad I will finally get around to completing it
I have 165 hours on XCOM2, roughly half on the ‘regular’ game and half on ‘War of the Chosen’. If you like squad tactical games then this is an amazing game, and the depth is huge. The original game is excellent, and then WotC turns that up to 11 with new classes, abilities and even more customisation with a new experience system that lets you add even more skills to characters. Oh, and a team work mechanism too...
This is exciting news. Not only is XCOM 1 the first ps3/PC era tactical RPG released on IOS when iOS was considered “ps2 graphics” by most people back in 2013, but now it’s successor, XCOM 2 with War Of The Chosen integrated in the base game, has made its way to IOS in 2020 when XCOM 2 was supposed to be a 2016 PC only released game, and knowing that XCOM 2 is much more focused in story content-with or without its 4 optional DLC-than XCOM 1 is a iOS treat. Other than the downgraded early ps2 graphics, and removal of the optional “Zhen” character in his mission, XCOM 1 is the complete game, so now that FERAL published XCOM 2 instead of 2K, It can finally shine with polished beautiful potential!
Note: This gave me hope a Bioshock 2 or Starcraft 2 will be published by Feral in 3 years hopefully.