X-COM: Apocalypse
1997Windows, macOS, LinuxPlayable
Runs natively on PC through OpenApocalypse.
Project page on github.com.
Cover art and game details from IGDB.
- Original console
- PC
- Runs on
- Native PC
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Method
- RebuildA new engine that recreates the game without its original code.
- Status
- Playable
- Latest release
- 20260408 ↗
- Last update
- Apr 2026
Listing updated .
About X-COM: Apocalypse
Your mission, as X-COM Commander, is to combat alien aggression and uncover their deadly intentions. But Beware! Alien infiltration into the city and its politics could see you under fire from criminal gangs, religious sects, and even the police! Alien fleets fill the skies, creatures terrorise the city, chaos reigns... Welcome to the war, welcome to the Apocalypse.
- Released
- 30 Jun 1997
- Genre
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction, Horror, Warfare
- Modes
- Single player
- Series
- X-COM
- Developer
- Mythos Games
- Publisher
- MicroProse Software, Inc., 2K Games
- Rating
- 76/100 from 20 ratings
Screenshots, summary and details from IGDB ↗. They describe the original game, not the port.
X-COM: Apocalypse port: quick answers
- Do I need to own X-COM: Apocalypse?
- Yes. OpenApocalypse needs game files from a copy you own. PlayPorted links only to the project page and never to game files.
- Is the X-COM: Apocalypse port finished?
- Yes, the project calls it playable. Its last update was Apr 2026, and the latest release is 20260408.
- Which systems does it run on?
- Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Is it an emulator?
- No. OpenApocalypse is a new engine that loads the original game's data, so no emulator is needed.
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