{"id":76875,"date":"2026-04-28T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76875"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:37:41","slug":"xcom-to-get-miniatures-focused-tabletop-game-celebrating-30-years-of-firaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76875","title":{"rendered":"XCOM To Get Miniatures-Focused Tabletop Game Celebrating 30 Years Of Firaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon you’ll be able to weep at the loss of your favorite operative at your very own table; XCOM is getting a tabletop game. Developer and publisher Firaxis announced the game as part of their 30th-anniversary celebration, which accompanied a brand refresh.<\/p>\n

Exact details for the XCOM board game are still under wraps. Modiphius Entertainment, also known for the Mass Effect board game and Fallout: The Roleplaying Game, is handling development. Like many other video game adaptations, the tabletop game will feature miniatures. In the announcement<\/a>, Firaxis said the game will be inspired by XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the franchise reboot from 2013. The board game’s price and release date were not announced. You can sign up on the official website<\/a> to get future details in your email inbox.<\/p>\n

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This is not the first time XCOM has gotten the board game treatment. Way back in 2015, Fantasy Flight published a tie-in, co-op XCOM game. That one focused on the “meta” layer of XCOM–i.e. choosing what research to complete, building out parts of your base of operations–rather than the tactics-focused combat of the game’s missions.<\/p>\n

Other highlights of Firaxis’ 30th anniversary include a publisher sale on Steam starting April 30, a run of anniversary merch,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soon you’ll be able to weep at the loss of your favorite operative at your very own table; XCOM is getting a tabletop game. Developer and publisher Firaxis announced the game as part of their 30th-anniversary celebration, which accompanied a brand refresh. Exact details for the XCOM board game are still under wraps. Modiphius Entertainment,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":76877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76878,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76875\/revisions\/76878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}