When Firaxis final week, the studio’s Jake Solomon promised the sport would share “zero mechanics” with XCOM, however mentioned little else about how its gameplay techniques would work. Now we now have a greater concept following a trailer the developer .

In brief, Midnight Suns has extra in frequent with deck-building video games like Slay the Spire and Griftlands than XCOM. Battles nonetheless unfold over the course of a number of turns, however as a substitute of every hero bringing the identical set of talents to each battle, you’ll have to attract for playing cards each flip. 

Some grant easy assaults, whereas others mean you can reposition enemies. According to Solomon, battlefield terrain and the positioning of adversaries play a crucial function in Midnight Suns because you drive your opponents to collide with obstacles and one another to break them. As you progress via the sport, you’ll have the possibility to improve your playing cards to make them extra highly effective and create new synergies between totally different heroes.

Following the reveal, Firaxis clarified on Twitter you gained’t have to purchase loot packing containers or pay for every other microtransactions to unlock further playing cards. However, Midnight Suns will embrace character skins you should purchase, although these don’t have an effect on the steadiness of the sport.

Outside of fight, there’s a hub known as the Abbey the place your custom-made character, the Hunter, can work together with the opposite members of the Midnight Suns, together with Blade, Doctor Strange and Iron Man. And very like in , that’s one thing you’ll need to do since it is going to make them a simpler staff on the battlefield.

Midnight Suns Publisher 2K plans to launch the sport to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in March 2022.