The game is fully playable, but there are bugs and placeholder art. No there is no guaranteed 'done' date yet.

When the next update leaves experimental, the campaign will be complete. The game is fun as is.

FWIW, the game was fun a couple of years ago, too. Aliens stopped vising Earth at some point (day ~ 300?) because the rest wasn't implemented yet. The experience was worth it however, like the learning of "what you want is not what you get".
So I was never disappointed playing X2 early on.

Originally posted by Gamerzilla:

The game is fully playable, but there are bugs and placeholder art. No there is no guaranteed 'done' date yet.

Great, thanks mate. I'll hold off til the art is updated then give it a crack.

Originally posted by Iron Horse:

When the next update leaves experimental, the campaign will be complete. The game is fun as is.

Besides the fun there are other points. For example if it's feature-complete, if it's stable and so on.

The game may be fun but having no end-game content.

Originally posted by VDmitry:

Originally posted by Iron Horse:

When the next update leaves experimental, the campaign will be complete. The game is fun as is.

Besides the fun there are other points. For example if it's feature-complete, if it's stable and so on.

The game may be fun but having no end-game content.

This is already answered. You can beat the game on the experimental branch. It just has placeholder art and text.

Bought this over a year ago. It was not finished. It is still not finished. Disaster of a game.

Originally posted by Zohan Dwir:

Bought this over a year ago. It was not finished. It is still not finished. Disaster of a game.

"Xenonauts General Discussions
Mar 3, 2023 @ 2:16
Game is a really annoying collection of load/saves as aliens have way longer view range than humans, so you keep on getting killed by invisible enemies that you stumble into. Kind of lame."

Whined when he played X1. Whined when he bought X2 even after seeing what X1 was like. Still whining now. Irony?

Originally posted by Zohan Dwir:

Bought this over a year ago. It was not finished. It is still not finished. Disaster of a game.

Maybe don't buy unfinished games?

How does this play / compare to original UFO defense?
I recently played a bit of the original - openXCOM extended. The original has such a good atmosphere but no matter what you do - it's ANCIENT looking.

Originally posted by in:

How does this play / compare to original UFO defense?
I recently played a bit of the original - openXCOM extended. The original has such a good atmosphere but no matter what you do - it's ANCIENT looking.

It's fairly similar. No 2AP ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from the recent XCOM installments, impactful research, even last alien problem persists somewhat. Besides, it has character "classes" depending on loadout (and stats, ofc), and each class is fairly useful in its niche.

tl;dr: a true spiritual successor to ye olde UFO/X-COM games.