# XCOM®: Enemy Within — user reviews

> 442 indexed App Store user reviews of XCOM® by 2K, rated 4.30/5 from 5,601 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xcom-enemy-within/id881270303/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xcom-enemy-within/id881270303.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,191 · 4★ 508 · 3★ 142 · 2★ 125 · 1★ 635

## What do users think of XCOM®?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Excellent port of the PC game
- 👍 Great gameplay and strategy
- 💎 Addictive and replayable
- 🎮 Faithful to the XCOM franchise
- 🔝 Best strategy game on iOS

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Difficult to control on small screens
- 🔋 Battery draining
- 🗺️ Limited map selection compared to PC
- 🔇 Sound issues and lack of audio options

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Tutorial getting stuck
- Crashes when returning to base
- Inability to move soldiers to elevated positions
- Unresponsive menus and UI
- Progression-blocking bugs

**Most requested features**

- Controller support
- Improved camera controls
- Full screen support for newer devices
- Update to fix compatibility issues
- More customization options

## Newest reviews (10 of 442)

### 3/5 — Crashes!

*2026-05-24, version 1.4.0*

Great, great game. MAJOR issue is that for whatever reason and randomly, the game will crash out and exit itself after some successful mission.

As you imagine, VERY FRUSTRATING.

There is no way to recover, even if going back to a previous save.

Have to uninstall and reinstall.

NO!

I ended buying a cheap Windows laptop to play it that way.

### 2/5 — Game Breaking Bug

*2026-01-25, version 1.4.0*

The game itself is really fun with the combat and the resource management. However, I have to give it a low score due to a game crashing bug that is causing the game to terminate once I complete a mission. I reloaded two saves with two different missions and the same thing happens. It’s forced me to restart the game and waste the hours I placed in. Not even going to bother if there’s no guarantee this will happen again.

### 4/5 — XCOM

*2026-01-11, version 1.4.0*

Can you make this to where you can play it with the backbone for a phone

### 4/5 — Similar to pc version and just as hard, even on easy mode!

*2025-11-12, version 1.4.0*

Make it easier

### 3/5 — Bueno

*2025-10-07, version 1.4.0*

Lo único que falta en una actualización con los diálogos en español .

### 2/5 — Excellent Game - Pish Poor Controls

*2025-09-21, version 1.4.0*

Controller layout massive lets this game down

### 3/5 — Средне

*2025-06-19*

Игра обновлялась 7 лет назад, проблемы с игрой есть, но исправлений видимо ждать не стоит

### 3/5 — I love it but it needs a little lovin’

*2025-06-08, version 1.4.0*

Please, I beg for all the crumbs and soup in the world, update this to have it work with newer iOS devices

Personally it just feels a little lacking having so much empty screen space on my 15 pro max.

### 5/5 — Love it!

*2025-05-22, version 1.4.0*

I absolutely love this bloody game! It’s Just like playing it on the Xbox but closer to your face coz it’s a phone!!! Play play play!

### 2/5 — Needs to be updated

*2025-05-16, version 1.4.0*

Bought this after playing the XCOM 2 collection on IOS. This game is so inferior to the other in terms of how it feels and controls. The camera is awful and the main reason I can’t get into the game. Needs to be updated to a free cam like XCOM 2.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Extremely buggy

*2026-07-30, version 1.4.0*

I played for 10 min before I couldn’t move ahead on this game. I have an iPhone15 so it may be something to do with a newer phone working on an older game. But it looks for enemies that aren’t there in the tutorial so there are no other options for me to move forward.

### 1/5 — No Support

*2026-06-30, version 1.4.0*

This game has only gotten buggier over time. The elevation controls no longer work. Neither the buttons nor the swipe actions to change elevation are responsive. There’s no support for this game anymore, so it’s just stuck being broken. They got their money, and now they’re done with us. SHAME!

### 1/5 — Game crashes after first mission

*2026-06-05, version 1.4.0*

I love the computer version, but I just launched a game on this app and after the first successful abduction mission, the game crashes. I’m on iPhone 17, iOS 26.5.1, and the link to support says 403…

### 1/5 — Controller support

*2026-04-18, version 1.4.0*

Need controller support

### 1/5 — D

*2026-04-10, version 1.4.0*

Cannot us controls that allow units to change access different higher levels, makes it unplayable

### 1/5 — No simultaneous audio

*2026-01-29, version 1.4.0*

Pretty much unplayable. This game hijacks your audio output. 

Who TF wants audio from other apps forcibly disabled?

What a waste.

### 1/5 — 2K

*2025-11-02, version 1.4.0*

I love the game, but I can’t use my backbone controller

### 1/5 — Only in Xcom 40% is way more probable than 77% !!

*2025-07-29, version 1.4.0*

The kill probabilities are not Bayesian or Frequentist or a coin toss.. The missed shots probability is NOT 1 - Kill Probability ..   I think missed shot probability IS the horribly calculated kill probability…

### 1/5 — Частота кадров и разрешение экрана

*2025-06-02*

Черные полосы и игра как то не плавно идет хотя у меня айфон 15про.
Вот если бы были функции на эти настройки тогда было бы вообще класс.
Я запустил перечитал форумы сайты чтобы решить но безуспешно. Даже играть не стал потому-что не чувствуется играбельность и плавность, как то так… 
Надеюсь разработчики не положат БОЛТ.

### 1/5 — No sound

*2025-05-28, version 1.4.0*

Even after deleting and re-installing, there aren’t any sounds, music, anything. Like trying to play on mute.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Love it but there are bugs.

*2026-04-23, version 1.4.0*

Wouldn’t let me move my guy even though he had 2 bars I had to restart. Tried reloading and overwatch but every time I hit accept it did nothing.
Also add controller support. Please at the very least fix the bugs.

### 5/5 — Восторг!!!!!

*2026-03-31*

Скажите, кто-нибудь видел пошаговую стратегию лучше чем x-com?! Это шедевр!!!!

### 5/5 — Best Game

*2026-03-06, version 1.4.0*

I love this game

### 5/5 — Good game in 2026 -read for playability tip

*2026-01-06, version 1.4.0*

Game is really fun. Love the strategy, advancing tech, and my base. Sound track is pretty cool too. The game does crash a lot on IOS though. You can work around this by making an icloud save. I would recommend making one every time you get back to your base. The game will sometimes crash at the end of a mission which sucks. Not quite sure why. When that happens you’re gonna want to delete the game, redownload, and then load the icloud save from your base before that mission. I don’t know why this works exactly, but it allows me to actually progress now. If that was issue was fixed this game would be perfect. I’m still gonna give it 5 stars because I loved playing this as a kid too.

### 5/5 — The best in a minute

*2025-12-10, version 1.4.0*

The most entertaining game I have played in a grip! Worth the free download. You heard?

### 5/5 — Jd

*2025-11-29, version 1.4.0*

This is a great game on pc and transfers so well to mobile. Get this and the second one :)

### 5/5 — Best game ever

*2025-10-06, version 1.4.0*

Absolutely legendary strategy game

### 5/5 — Recomendado para quem não entende de porcentagem kk

*2025-09-10*

Melhor jogo de turno futurístico, como todo jogador que jogou só tenho que reclamar das taxas de acerto kkkk 94% de acertividade e ainda erra vc fica bolado ksksk, mas esse jogo em todo critério é incrível super recomendo tenho ele no pc e no celular nada melhor que um bom jogo de estratégia

### 5/5 — Best turn based strategy game on iOS!

*2025-07-24, version 1.4.0*

I absolutely love this Xcom and Xcom 2! in depth strategy and tactics. This is hands down the best turn based strategy game available on iOS.

### 5/5 — Nostalgic

*2025-06-13*

Remembers the original XCOM Enemy Unknown!!

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*