

This leaves one day and eight hours at the time of writing. The Humble Store is offering the whole thing up for free, in the form of a permanent Steam key, until Wednesday evening (UK time). If you've resisted because you are morally opposed to spending money on something that runs at a resolution of 640x480, you can now obtain a copy of this icon of PC gaming without spending a penny. Slower, less predictable, more involved and even more sinister than Firaxis' streamlined successors, it is a titan of both ambition and execution. The Gollop brothers' original X-COM is my favourite game of all time, and though I won't pretend nostalgia doesn't help me get past the barriers presented by so vintage a title, I am resolute that it still holds up beautifully today. For that is the case for X-COM: UFO Defense aka UFO: Enemy Unknown, the 1994 alien-bothering strategy game that kicked off a series now made something of a household name by Firaxis' remakes. Oh sure, it's basically been pennies for years, but nothing motivates the merely curious like free-free-free.
