XCOM 2 is the successor to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the award winning strategy game from 2012. The Earth has changed. Twenty years have gone since Earth's Head of State offered their unconditional capitulation to the aliens. XCOM, the planet's last line of defence, has been decimated and smashed. Well, in XCOM 2, the aliens rule on earth and create sparkling cities that primarily promise humanity a dazzling future, but in truth only conceal a sinister plan and shut off those that are defecting the new world order. Only those who live on the edge of the world have a low degree of freedom. And here again a power gathers to fight for humanity. Driven to constantly escape and with only little prospects of success, the remaining XCOM forces must find a way to ignite a global resistance and turn off the alien threat once and for all.