Xenopurge (v1.1.0.0)

A flickering bank of surveillance monitors is all that separates your squad from the horrors stalking a hostile alien facility. Xenopurge turns squad tactics into a tense remote-command exercise, placing you in the role of a M.A.C.E. operator guiding elite soldiers through industrial corridors, sealed labs, and pitch-black kill zones. Its retro-future military aesthetic channels the claustrophobia of Alien and the board-game-like dread of Space Hulk, where incomplete information is often deadlier than the creatures themselves. The mood stays cold, pressured, and paranoid: you are never the hero with a rifle, but the voice trying to keep everyone alive.

Rather than directly steering every soldier, you issue a restricted range of commands through tactical screens and trust your units to carry them out under fire. Planning movement routes, setting priorities, reacting to ambushes, and knowing when to order a retreat form the heart of each run, while the limited control scheme makes positioning and anticipation matter far more than quick reflexes. Missions mix objectives such as locating targets, protecting personnel, destroying threats, and extracting survivors, with procedurally assembled maps ensuring routes and dangers rarely unfold the same way twice. Successful operations unlock additional recruits and broaden your roster, letting you assemble teams whose equipment and behavior fit a cautious, aggressive, or adaptable command approach; failure remains costly, as permadeath keeps every decision sharp.

Xenopurge’s strongest idea is its commitment to the command-center perspective, transforming familiar alien-squad combat into something closer to managing a desperate operation through imperfect feeds. Runs generally last about an hour, making it a focused roguelite rather than an endless grand strategy campaign, yet its randomized layouts, changing goals, and expanding pool of personnel support repeat attempts. The auto-battler element does not remove strategy—it shifts the challenge toward preparation, squad composition, and interpreting a rapidly worsening situation. Fans of tactical roguelites, tense management games, and sci-fi horror will find plenty to like, especially if they prefer the calculated pressure of XCOM-style decision-making over direct shooter action.