Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Lynn. I'm your host. I am here with freelance writer John Bolding.

Hey, y'all. And freelance writer Sin Vega.

Oh, yeah.

And this week, we are talking about Xenonauts 2, which just released into 1.0 from early access.

I almost said into early access, because I've been reviewing so many early access games

lately.

It's a, you know, throwback to the old school excom, which I actually never played, like,

the original 90s X-s, which one of those

things that just scandalizes people when I bring it up. I assume both of you did.

I did not play them at the time and can only imagine what kind of a sicko I would have become if I had

actually discovered them as like a youth.

But I did go back and play the 90s XCOMs around the time that the 2012 XCOM, I say reboot,

but that's now like 14 years ago happen, right? I was like, oh, this is

really interesting. People are really excited about this. And it's a strategy game. I want to know

where this came from. And then I was like, oh, snap, this is like laser squad because I had

laser squad. And I was like, this is like laser squad, but way, way different. And then from there, I evolved on to discover all the way up, played all the way up

through XCOM Apocalypse, one of the greatest horrifying Baroque masterpieces in all

of gaming.

Yes, it's my favorite in the series.

It's a psychotic video game that shouldn't exist, but it should also definitely exist in like a dwarf fortress way where someone should still be working on it to get today. It was talk of a remake year's back. Well, you know, somebody got partway through that, but I think that's stored, which is I mean, I mean, yeah, it was even...

Pure madness.

Even by 90s standards, it was very unorthodox.

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