They said this was XCOM

Don't like it (within XCOM universe) too far removed from team turn-based tactical.
As a stand-alone alien FPS, sure. Not bad.

Like many before me, I also wish there was a "Neutral" button. But given I can only recommend or not recommend this game, I tend to say I rather not recommend it. Which is a shame because it looked like a perfect 7/10 game. However, I just dont like how in several places the game design is just "let the players fight as many waves of enemies as possible". This is true especially for the very last mission which was quite a pain in a neck. I also wish the human weapons got improved as the game goes on - after all, you manage to steal basically all weapons that aliens have and your engineers look into them, so why not the gained knowledge to improve your firearms? Lastly, the end of the story is weird. What happened to agent Carter?

As for the good stuff, dialogues and voice-acting are solid, atmosphere is perfect, optimalization seemed fine to me and I had no problem playing the game on Steam Deck - meaning it's perfectly playable even with a controller.

Team AI is stupid. You need to micro but that being said I had fun with it.

Slightly different from original X-com but I like the originality.