Recently Xenonauts started a kickstarter asking for 50 thousand dollars. I have to say, aside from the game itself the guy who is making it poured his life savings into it because he loved xcom. That deserves respect. This was in development before Enemy Unknown.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts

Reasons why I think it will be the better game

- Not designed with console in mind

Everything I have seen of Xcom thus far has been running on a control pad. Not a single peice of footage of image has been on the mouse and keyboard. Usually this is a sign of the target audience. Some people will argue it doesn't matter. I disagree. Whenever a game is focused at consoles it almost always hurts the pc game.

- Indie title

In interviews the Xcom developer team has said over and over buzzwords "action" "streamline" "accessible". Going mainsteam (and console) usually means super simple games. Already we know a ton of crap has been cut out. The guy making xenonauts is not cutting out any complexity for a need to appeal to the mainstream.

It's cheaper and wont charge you up the butt with DLC -

You don't need to guess that Xcom will have a crap ton of DLC. Launch DLC, pre-launch DLC, dlc dlc dlc dlc dlc dlc dlc dlc dlc. e.t.c....

- Cheaper

Xenonauts is only $20. Xcom: Enemy Unknown will be about $49.

Of these two games I look forward to Xenonauts far more.

This is a interview from an older build. The graphics (tiles) are better now and with funding it will probably have even more work done to it. Be a man, fund this. You also get instant access to the beta to play right now. The game also has a demo to try out.