The next XCOM could be about Gooblons from the planet Zorp invading through a portal in Atlantis. Whatever, that’s all just story faff for lore nerds.
Alien elders are defeated, but a mysterious new threat could still come from another source. So they left the world a bit more open at the end of XCOM 2. While undeniably a genius way to get themselves out of the corner they had written themselves into, It’s not like they could just pull that trick again. It took place in a timeline where XCOM failed very quickly into the invasion, treating Enemy Unknown‘s “you lose” ending as canon. XCOM 2 pulled a clever trick by basically soft-rebooting XCOM: Enemy Unkown. I have the feeling that this was a setting they wanted to continue to explore, but it was so poorly received that any new story relating to that time period is poison. Then The Burea: XCOM Declassified released a year later as a prequel chapter. It was tight, self-contained, and ended with you taking down the alien big cheese and your psionic teammate doing a heroism by flying their ship into space as it explodes.
To recap, XCOM: Enemy Unknown was a reboot serving as a new square one for the franchise. While critically acclaimed, the recent storyline is somewhat of a mess. I’ve been curious where the XCOM franchise will go. XCOM: Chimera Squad Review – Intergallactic Disharmony Is Punishable By Death
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