# X-Com now back and available on Steam **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509 "2008-09-07T18:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/1 "2008-09-07T18:04:45Z")
I know I’ve made negative comments about Steam in the past but it’s back in my cool books now. All the X-com games are now on there for $13.50 ! **UFO** : Oh Yeah! Gimme a Plasma Pistol! **Terror from the Deep** : It’s all about the vibroblades baby! **Apocalypse** : Alien Blasting in another dimension. **Interceptor** : A good laugh and worth playing. **Enforcer** : I’m not even sure what this one was meant to be about. So I just bought three brilliant games, one average one and one odd one for the same price as lunch. Of course, I already owned these games but they need an awful lot of work to function under XP or Vista, when I did get them working they had their problems. And now they don’t, they play like they were meant to. Thank you for re-coding them Steam people. I love my old games. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/2 "2008-09-07T19:51:06Z")
woot … though i wonder if the cracking program that a friend of mine made to give me any amount of goodies i wanted will still work… =) ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/3 "2008-09-07T20:34:41Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > woot … though i wonder if the cracking program that a friend of mine made to give me any amount of goodies i wanted will still work… =) I think it will. I merrily edited my money in Apocalypse using a simple hex editor earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/4 "2008-09-07T20:36:16Z")
> [@essell](#): > > **Enforcer** : I’m not even sure what this one was meant to be about. It is a horrible FPS. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/5 "2008-09-07T21:51:03Z")
yeah I loved the first two X-com and missed the turn by turn combat. Woo Hoo! ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/6 "2008-09-07T22:46:08Z")
I should point out the games are only $13.50 until the 11th September, then they revert back to their original price. $14.99. Also the id super pack is available until September 8th. Commander Keen Ultimate DOOM DOOM II + Master Levels Final DOOM DOOM 3 DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders HeXen HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel HeXen II QUAKE QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity QUAKE II QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning QUAKE III Arena + QUAKE III Team Arena Return to Castle Wolfenstein Spear of Destiny Wolfenstein 3D All for $35. [Steam forum thread](http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=518670) giving the latest price reductions on Steam. ---
**Author:** ![lemac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@lemac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lemac)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/7 "2008-09-08T11:58:32Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > Also the id super pack is available until September 8th. > Commander Keen > Ultimate DOOM > DOOM II + Master Levels > Final DOOM > DOOM 3 > DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil > Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders > HeXen > HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel > HeXen II > QUAKE > QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon > QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity > QUAKE II > QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero > QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning > QUAKE III Arena + QUAKE III Team Arena > Return to Castle Wolfenstein > Spear of Destiny > Wolfenstein 3D > > All for $35. Sold! And here I was, trying to save some money for the holidays :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/8 "2008-09-11T16:08:52Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > It is a horrible FPS. I have Enforcer. It is NOT a FPS. It’s a pure arcade shooter. The areas are fairly small, but jammed with enemies. Your constantly spraying out a stream of bullets, or lasers, or whatever. There’s power ups to collect, extra lives, different weapons, etc. It plays a lot like the old Robotron arcade game. It is quite fun, but it has almost nothing to do with X-Com except the title. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/9 "2008-09-11T18:04:28Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > It is a horrible FPS. It’s a shame they didn’t make a good FPS. I love the concept of X-Com Alliance. I always named my soldiers in UFO and TFTD after my friends and I anyway. ETA: Why are all the google ads on this screen for Cat related products? Do cats play xcom? or is there an xcom game where you save the world from cats? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-com-now-back-and-available-on-steam/462509/10 "2008-09-11T18:12:49Z")
> [@essell](#): > > It’s a shame they didn’t make a good FPS. > I love the concept of X-Com Alliance. I always named my soldiers in UFO and TFTD after my friends and I anyway. > ETA: Why are all the google ads on this screen for Cat related products? Do cats play xcom? or is there an xcom game where you save the world from cats? My google ad is a “clean coal” ad… which has nothing to do with computers games either. Heh.