# Xenowerk Tactics — user reviews

> 158 indexed App Store user reviews of Xenowerk Tactics by Pixelbite, rated 4.60/5 from 340 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xenowerk-tactics/id1469037103/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xenowerk-tactics/id1469037103.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 263 · 4★ 49 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 14

## What do users think of Xenowerk Tactics?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Nice game help with easier experience
- 🚀 Great fun, nicely made
- 🚀 Excellent game, well worth purchasing the full version
- 👍 Addictive, enjoyable and a well made game
- 👍 Handheld AAA game
- 👍 Brilliant as intelligent
- 👍 Solid game, worth the price

**Cons**

- 🐛 Charged 60 instead of 6.99
- 🐛 Won't let me play
- 🐛 Unintentional or not, getting mutations for things that operatives already have
- 🐛 Uneven difficulty curve
- 🐛 Repetitive, not much content for the price point
- 🐛 Bland and soulless
- 🐛 Data got wiped, all characters dead

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Won't let me run the missions
- Game just loads with white loading dots, cannot play
- Keeps crashing

**Most requested features**

- Add a super easy mode for people who are really bad
- More interesting combat, more depth to exploration
- Loot, finding gear and weapons to distribute among operators
- More interesting character progression and customization
- More dramatic effects of trauma and horror
- More levels, more troops, an arsenal of weapons and gear
- Ability to switch weapons/armor for characters of the same class
- A.I. deploy function to send soldiers to different locations

## Newest reviews (15 of 158)

### 4/5 — Carey

*2025-06-10, version 2.0.8*

Nice game help with easier experience

### 4/5 — Good for awhile

*2024-12-24, version 2.0.8*

At least on the easy and free part it got pretty repetitive.  Definitely worth trying

### 4/5 — Amazing but,

*2024-08-18*

Great game, great functions, except for a couple problems, 
1; If I open then app it does not have a play button, at all. Settings, achievements, everything BUT the play button is there and works.
2; Unintentional or not, getting mutations for things that operatives already have, for example, getting a mutation to see all enemies WHEN THE OPERATIVE IS A RANGER AND CAN ALREADY DO THAT!

### 4/5 — To difficult.

*2024-05-02*

Achieving the overall objective is really hard. Also there are way to many aliens. Can you add a super easy mode for people like me who are really bad. Other wise great game.

### 3/5 — Très bon jeu, mais répétitif

*2024-02-05, version 2.0.8*

C’est un très bon jeu, avec de beaux graphismes mais je le trouve trop répétitif. Il faudrait pouvoir gérer les armes des membres selon le type, avoir une armurerie. Certaines missions sont trop semblables, manque de variété.

### 4/5 — Overall it’s great

*2023-12-18*

A bit repetitive, but mostly a great game. Pretty much XCom remake.

### 4/5 — fun game, but...

*2023-10-30*

the concept here is fantastic, the atmosphere is perfect, and there is an outline of some potentially great game mechanics here. unfortunately the mechanics aren't all that well fleshed out though, leaving the game feeling rushed and half finished.

what the game needs? more interesting combat. more depth to exploration. loot... like finding gear and weapons which could be distributed among your operators. the characters progression, seems extremely limited with only allowing upgrading weapons and suits a couple times, with that limited selection being of gear locked in to each of only 3 classes. the exposure mechanic is brilliant, but so little is done with it. the mutations could have been much more interesting and provided much greater utility... but 90% percent of the possible mutations are boring to the point of being entirely unremarkable. it needs cybernetics, better mutations, more dramatic effects of trauma and horror, more levels, more troops, an arsenal of weapons and gear that can be equipped on units. tap to set destination, swipe through enemies to que targets, to fire at while moving. add some verticality to levels, along with strategic locations, tracking.

so much could be done here to flesh this world out and make this into a really impressive game. but unfortunately it just an empty shell of would could have been. i'm giving it four stars to encourage the developers to revisit this concept and do something better.

### 5/5 — Great little squad tactics game

*2023-10-27*

Great fun, nicely made. The demo is long enough for a taste and the full price is still cheap. 
The changes to hard difficulty are well thought out but ouch it is tough.

### 2/5 — shot in foot

*2023-10-26*

game should be really good, but unfortunately it has not been updated for modern iphones. the notch on modern phones and the common aspect ratios have not been properly addressed in this title.  it just scales itself down and letter boxes off a substantial portion of screen space.

scaling games down, on already small phone screens, is an awful idea. it adversely effects legibility of text and negatively impacts immersion and enjoyment. trying to play a detailed 3d game, inside a small square inside another small square, with small text and scaled down touch regions...

it's such a great game too... making it a real shame that the devs can't be bothered to update it for modern devices. if this gets fixed, i'll update my rating to 5 stars.

### 5/5 — Awesome game

*2023-09-29, version 2.0.8*

Do the free trial. My guess is you will buy the full version. It’s a cool game. Has an XCOM feel to it that i love. Levelling up different crew and their class specific skills. Easy to play/move separately or as a squad. Try it out. ***** <——-5 stars (sept 29,2023)

### 5/5 — Worth the 7 dollars

*2023-07-08, version 2.0.8*

If you like XCOM, you’ll rock with this

### 5/5 — Xenowerk Tactics is Tacticool!

*2023-06-16, version 2.0.8*

A great game and fun to play!
-plenty of enemies to kill and obliterate (though more enemies would be great, like zombie scientists or xenosaurs…xeno dinosaurs…the island does have a very Jurassic Park-like feel to it)
-perhaps passive creatures like birds and other xeno mammals to encounter, even tame
-a fourth squad member (red) who specializes in healing team members and uses either heavy weaponry or special sci-fi weaponry (electric)
-more levels (underground railway network, weapons lab, plains/desert areas, volcano)
-further upgrades to the base (upgrading SPA to past level 4 to grant more cleansing baths for fully upgraded team members)
-more bosses to battle and destroy

Overall a great awesome game with lots of expansive potential. I’m looking forward to seeing what xenowerk management does next!

### 5/5 — This is exactly like rainbow 6 extraction

*2023-06-04, version 2.0.8*

It’s just extraction but mobile

### 5/5 — 5/5

*2023-05-13*

Отличная игра

### 5/5 — Всё отлично сделано

*2023-04-09*

Из всего предложенного, что сейчас есть в «AppStore» это затянуло!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Charged 60 instead of 6.99

*2025-05-04, version 2.0.8*

I want to be charged correctly for my purchase.

### 1/5 — Wont let me play

*2024-12-02, version 2.0.8*

Hi i have had this game for about 16 months now and upgraded to full version a while ago and had not regrets. However recently when I enter the game the play button does not come up and so i can’t log in.

### 1/5 — донатная помойка

*2024-07-08*

без доната это игру нельзя продолжить

### 1/5 — No missions

*2024-06-07, version 2.0.8*

Won’t let me run the missions. What’s on offer isn’t interesting enough to make me delve. Boring and forgettable.

### 1/5 — 購入しましたがゲームが始まりません

*2023-07-08*

バグでゲームが始まりません。

### 1/5 — Это демка

*2022-10-19*

Это демка, как человек купивший полную игру скажу, что она не стоит своих денег. Геймплей однотипный, со временем еще и до ужаса просто становится все. Хватило на 2 дня максимум. Если устройство ниже XRа по размерам дисплея - то еще и не видно будет ничего.

### 1/5 — Unspielbar

*2021-05-21*

Leider wegen der Schwierigkeit mehr Frustration denn Freude

### 1/5 — 最初の10分で飽きるゲーム👎

*2020-11-05*

つまんねーーーーーー（笑）👎

作った人間さん！時間の無駄でしたね〜👎

### 1/5 — Don’t bother

*2020-05-05, version 2.0.8*

Kept on crashing on me shame

### 1/5 — iPhone XR with Verizon

*2020-04-10, version 2.0.8*

Game just loads with those white loading dots over and over cannot play game deleting this trash

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Супер!

*2026-07-30*

Игра очень хорошо сделана. Играю уже несколько лет. Помню, что когда на лёгком уровне стало всё понятно и игра превратилась в игру, а не в потное прохождение, я не смог пройти сложный уровень. На сложном уровне мне удалось за всё время пройти игру только два раза. Игра захватывает. Очень интересно. Чем сложнее, тем больше приходится вникать в навыки персонажей, чтобы комбинировать отряд под необходимые задачи. Всем хорошей игры!

### 5/5 — Yeah this is fire!

*2026-07-10, version 2.0.8*

Great top down moving tower defence strategy. My favorite iOS so far.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2026-01-22*

Like Door Kickers and Xcom would be great on consoles

### 5/5 — Отлично

*2025-04-03*

Единственный минус - закончилась

### 5/5 — Really fun game!

*2024-12-05, version 2.0.8*

This game is really awesome! I love the gameplay, levelling up, music, sound effects. I like how injured soldiers must be sent to the hospital for treatment. This allows for experimenting with other squads and being mindful about retreating to keeps soldiers healthy. The missions are really fun to play and the creatures, especially the ones that drop exploding charges can be challenging. I highly recommend this game!

### 5/5 — Xt

*2024-08-21*

Game is failing to load like wth

### 5/5 — Good game

*2024-07-01, version 2.0.8*

Reminds me of darkest dungeon

### 5/5 — Распрекрасная игра

*2024-02-06*

Супер игра

### 5/5 — 1 Flaw

*2024-01-08, version 2.0.8*

There isn’t more. A smart and wonderful game through and through that doesn’t implement aggressive ads or MX interactions; a rarity in the current mobile game market.

A real game, not a wallet vampire in disguise.

An equally brutal and beautiful mix of Oregon Trail, XCOM, Darkest Dungeon, and Alien Swarm; and does them all justice.

Nothing but praise from me.

### 5/5 — Sehr stimmungsvoll

*2023-12-24*

Gut gemacht, man wird richtig in die Handlung reingesogen.

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