
✓ Both are city builders — sharing turn-based strategy, roguelike runs and deep simulation
≠ Its own twist: horror tension, combat tactical and melee combat, while skipping deep RPG systems
X-COM: Terror From the Deep is a strategy game, the second installment in the X-COM series and a sequel to X-COM: UFO Defense that moves action from the outer space into the Earth’s oceans. The story unexpectedly references to Lovecraft’s novels, as you fight aliens that want to reawaken their unstoppable leader who slept under the sea for hundreds of years.
Where it drifts furthest from 9 Kings: setting.
It predates 9 Kings by 30 years, with what that implies technically.











