X-COM (Video Game)/Fanfic Recs

Proof that the remaining 10% is worth dying for here:

These are recommendations made by Tropers for X-COM Fan Fics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.

Do warn when a fanfic may head into homosexual or non-canon territory. Some people just don't like it, and as we all know, Shipping is Serious Business. You can also add to the current recommendations if you want. Refrain from posting Conversation in the Main Page though; that goes in the discussion page.

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Campaigns, After Action Reports, and Lets Plays

Peptuck

• • Peptuck's UFO Defense at Stardestroyer.net
• Recommended by Andy Waltfeld
• From the website that brought you The Salvation War and the author that brought us Tiberium Wars, Forward, Renegade, and Harbinger comes another tale of indiscriminate use of firepower against a threat humanity has to mentally dissect in order to conquer. Currently Dead Fic, due to the author suffering a Heroic BSOD following a traumatizing defeat while assaulting a Muton base.

chiasaur11 and Alex Knight

• • chiasaur's UFO Defense at Giant in the Playground
  • Alex Knight's Terror From The Deep at Giant in the Playground
• Recommended by Andy Waltfeld
• Pilfering equal parts from Red vs. Blue and Warhammer 40,000 to create a tongue-in-cheek hyper-Spartan mentality, these two somehow manage to survive X-COM's insane Red Shirt turnaround and turn that luck into ensemble comedy. Currently Dead Fic since Alex Knight's computer crashed halfway into TFTD.

General Fics

Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.

X-COM Saga by Russ Brown.

• Recommended by St Clair
• Synopsis: The original classic from 1994, posted to UseNet one chapter at a time.

X-COM: Unknown Menace

• Recommended by Flaser
• Synopsis: This is EPIC, in the truest sense of the world. It covers the entire First Alien War (UFO Defense) from X-COM's beginning to the final battle at Cydonia (1998-2003). 36 chapters of brutal combat, political intrigue and conspiracy. André has managed to pack a lot into this story, bringing the game to life and giving us characters that you care about.

Breeding Fear

• Recommended by Andy Waltfeld
• Pairings: Chrysalid/warm flesh, I guess
• Synopsis: BioKraze takes a look inside the mind of everyone's favorite alien zombie maker.

XSGCOM: Goa'uld Defence

• Recommended by S J C
• Pairings: None
• Synopsis: SG-1/X-COM Crossover - As humanity fights two alien threats its defenders join forces to turn the tide
• Has now a page: XSGCOM

XSGCOM: Terra from the Deep

• Recommended by S J C
• Pairings: None
• Synopsis: SG-1/X-COM Crossover - As old enemies fall by the wayside new ones appear to challenge the Tau'ri and their allies.

XCOM: RWBY Within

• Recommended by Msq
• Pairings: None
• Synopsis: RWBY/XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within Crossover - A strange anomaly causes the members of Team RWBY to find themselves in the midst of Earth's full-scale alien invasion with no way of returning to Remnant.
• Comments: A nicely-written fic that manages to justify the crossover between the two universes very well while incorporating XCOM's notorious difficulty and Anyone Can Die tendencies.

Shipping Fics

Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.

None Yet.