X-COM

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with X-COM, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Interface is hard to use and user-hostile, hiding good gameplay behind bad UX2025-09-08
Must reassign gear to every soldier at the start of each mission2020-09-22
Game blocks play with a manual-lookup code prompt until the right symbol is typed2019-01-31
Tap targets are small and text requires lots of scrolling2016-03-29
Manually counting tiles and TU costs for moves and shots was tedious and the UI made counting hard2016-02-19