About This Game
Quick Overview
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is the major expansion for XCOM 2, and it makes the campaign feel much more dangerous, personal, and unpredictable. The basic idea is still turn-based resistance warfare against alien occupation, but now you also have to deal with The Chosen — powerful elite enemies who can hunt your soldiers, interrupt your plans, and pressure you across the whole campaign. The DLC requires the base game XCOM 2 to play.
What makes this expansion special is how much life it adds to the campaign. You get new resistance factions, hero classes, enemies, mission types, environments, soldier bonds, covert actions, Resistance Orders, and more replay variety. The game feels less like a simple sequence of missions and more like an ongoing war where your enemies are actively trying to break your squad.
Who Should Play This Game?
Play War of the Chosen if you already like XCOM 2 and want the deeper, harder, more complete version of the campaign. It is perfect for players who enjoy squad tactics, permadeath, long-term planning, soldier progression, and missions where one mistake can change everything.
This is not the best starting point if you dislike difficult turn-based games. War of the Chosen adds more systems, more threats, and more pressure, so it can feel overwhelming for new players. But if you want XCOM 2 at its most tense and replayable, this expansion is basically the version most strategy fans should play.
Performance on PC
War of the Chosen has higher storage needs than the base game but still runs on older gaming PCs. Steam lists Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 / AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core, 4 GB RAM, GTX 460 / Radeon HD 5770, DirectX 11, and 65 GB storage as minimum requirements. Recommended specs include a 3 GHz quad-core CPU, 8 GB RAM, GTX 770 / Radeon HD 7970, and 70 GB storage.
On modern PCs, it should run well, but large missions, alien turns, explosions, Lost swarms, and many mods can still cause slowdowns. Since it is turn-based, you do not need ultra-high FPS, but smoother performance helps with camera movement, loading times, and long campaign sessions.