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Xenonauts 1 is good, especially with mods. Xenonauts 2 is mixed bag, still have it, but development is taking forever and campaign is not finished. Tactical combat is very similar to original, though the antifun brigade is pushing to make it harder than even TFtD and lately there was a lot of needless buffs for the aliens. Unfortunately air combat and especially air economy is completely FUBAR, made incredibly shit and unfun in the last 2 big patches.
If you played Long War for EW how does Xenonauts compare? I've eyed Xenonauts a few times but after spending the buckeroos to own both EW and War of the Chosen I couldn't convince myself to buy another similar game because I was afraid it would just be worse
Xenonauts 1 was free few times on GoG iirc, at least this is how i got it. Generally X-COM2 from Firaxis is imo best game in the entire genre, especially there is tons of mods for it.
If you crave the original, Xenonauts 1 and 2 are closest you will get. And they are both great, just 2 is incomplete and have several problems, afaik devs did promised mod support at some point though.