XCOM: TBG

Name: XCOM: TBG
Rating: 3.6 (28 reviews)
Author: Fantasy Flight Games

By: Fantasy Flight Games

Entertainment

Features & Capabilities

The XCOM digital companion app is a free tool designed for use with XCOM: The Board Game.

In XCOM: The Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game’s innovative, free digital companion app.

Each round, the app tracks the time you have allotted to respond to each task, forcing you to think quickly, even as you must carefully measure the strategic implications of your decisions. However, the app does far more than track time. Its design is integrated deep into gameplay, and it permits both a mutable alien invasion plan and a dynamic turn structure.

When you start a game of XCOM: The Board Game, the app randomly selects one of five different invasion plans. These plans represent the different, overarching strategies that the aliens might employ as they send forces against the earth’s different continents, create catastrophes, and target your base, pressing back against your resistance efforts.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Fantasy Flight Games

Rating:

3.60

(28)

Version:

1.2.4 Last updated: 2025-10-13

Version code:

878804115

Creation date:

2015-01-14

Compatible devices:

Size:

182.14MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-10

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# 271,396 ▼ 679

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Developed by:

Fantasy Flight Games

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xcom-tbg/id953520552

Website:

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=269

User Reviews

Reviewers mostly praise the app as a valuable, well-designed companion that deepens cooperative play with role-based flow and helpful tutorials, and note it’s polished when functioning. It’s also seen as essential for the board game and compatible with expansions. However, common downsides include: it is not standalone; mobile UI limitations (portrait-only, content cuts, charging restrictions); stability issues (broken tutorials, steps skipping, missing sound); and battery drain. When it works, it greatly enhances the game; otherwise, usability suffers.

Pros

Essential companion that enhances cooperative play and guides round flow with the Central Officer coordinating the team.
Adds depth via clear role mechanics and decision points that feel integral to XCOM: The Board Game.
Helpful learning aids: tutorials and a built-in rulebook that ease getting started.
Generally polished and easy to use when it works, with positive remarks about design.
Adds replayability and supports expansions/difficulty for more challenge.

Cons

Not a standalone game; it requires owning XCOM: The Board Game (and expansions), which can confuse new players.
Portrait-only mode and screen-locked UI can cut content and prevent charging while playing.
Bugs and reliability concerns like broken tutorials, steps skipped, missing sound, and occasional download issues.
Significant battery consumption during play.
Quality perception is mixed; some feel the app lacks depth or is hollow.

Recent reviews

One of the best cooperative board games ever, and the necessary app only makes it better. There’s four roles; one person (Central Officer) uses the app to inform the other three what’s going on (Scientist, Squad Leader, Commander), and everyone uses that info to make decisions during the timed phase each round. Then the resolution phase happens, and the dice are rolled to see what succeeded/failed and what assets are lost. Highly recommended for fans of cooperative, strategy, quick-decision-making, and/or XCOM. 👽🛸💥

by St*****, 2025-06-28

This is a great companion to the board game. It’s necessary to play the game it’s necessary to have the board game to go with the app. Super fun but very difficult game. The tutorial was a great way to ease into it and the rule book included in this app is a wonderful tool. The low star reviews are mostly from people that don’t understand it’s part of the board game and cannot be used alone. If you like the video game you’ll love this. Check it out!