Until the game throws new enemies with new tricks your way. Just one fight against the occupying invaders can be the domino that turns you into a tactical genius with all the right tools. The overwhelming sense of power progression, as you develop from some nearsighted goobers with knives to psychic hunter-killers with robots and rayguns, against ever-escalating weird creatures is one-of-a-kind. But its War of the Chosen expansion - which practically transforms the alien resistance sim into an entirely new, more story-driven game - had me hooked for longer than I care to remember. The top-down, turn-based tactics game from 2016 has been through its share of ups and downs.