XCOM vs 艾码编程
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XCOM
This digital companion app enhances a cooperative board game by managing the alien invasion. It tracks time, presents dynamic invasion plans, and adapts to player decisions, creating a challenging strategic experience to defend humanity.
- Manages alien invasion plans
- Tracks in-game time
- Dynamic turn structure
- Randomized invasion scenarios
- Supports cooperative play
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The XCOM digital companion app is a free tool designed for use with XCOM: The Board Game. In XCOM: The Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game’s innovative, free digital companion app. Each round, the app tracks the time you have allotted to respond to each task, forcing you to think quickly, even as you must carefully measure the strategic implications of your decisions. However, the app does far more than track time. Its design is integrated deep into gameplay, and it permits both a mutable alien invasion plan and a dynamic turn structure. When you start a game of XCOM: The Board Game, the app randomly selects one of five different invasion plans. These plans represent the different, overarching strategies that the aliens might employ as they send forces against the earth’s different continents, create catastrophes, and target your base, pressing back against your resistance efforts. Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.
艾码编程
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艾码编程。其包含了多种风格各异的控制方式,分别为:常规按键遥控器、陀螺水平仪遥控、路线轨迹绘制遥控、语音指令遥控以及自定义图形编程的模 式，让您体验不一样的乐趣!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 艾码编程 at 5.0 against XCOM's 3.7. 艾码编程 also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). XCOM's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
艾码编程 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: XCOM has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
XCOM ships an update every 2 months, 艾码编程 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XCOM | 艾码编程 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 230 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fantasy Flight Games | 睦彬 王 |
Customer experience
XCOM
艾码编程
In-app purchases
XCOM
No in-app purchases
艾码编程
No in-app purchases
