Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: space marines, endless runners, and a true next-gen title.
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Spaceland – Release Trailer Watch on YouTubeIn the week a new XCOM was announced for iOS – although not perhaps the sort of XCOM you may have expected – I’ve been hovering over the buy button for the smartphone version of XCOM: Enemy Within, my favourite game of the series, and a tactical delight unlike any other.
But I’ve also been playing Spaceland, an Apple Arcade game I missed out on at release, but which turns out to be a lot of fun. In Spaceland you take a squad of differently decked out soldiers through their paces in a range of tactical turn-based missions. Spaceland doesn’t use the near-perfect two-actions system of XCOM, but it’s still a lovely thing to play, and perfectly designed around a small screen and touch controls.