Divinity Original Sin or XCOM - which franchise does turn based tactical combat best?

I'm not really a huge fan of either of those franchise but I did play both XCOM & Divinity Original Sin. If I gotta pick one, my vote goes to, Divinity Original Sin.

I think Silent Storm gets my vote.

Divinity Original Sin 2 had very good tactical combat, but I don't know if it would be in my top 5.

Meanwhile, the XCOM remake was fine, but I don't think it had outstanding tactical combat.

Xcom, could start a new campaign any day and still be challenged by it, Divinity 1 and 2 both were quite simple on the first playthrough mostly thanks to your rpg mechanics, later playthroughs you just break them even more, this on the hardest difficulty that is

Divinity OS, but love both series.

Original Sin. It's a straight up better game.

Both are excellent for a variety of reasons.

X-COM does a relatively simple version of turn-based tactics really, really, really well. It's vanilla, but it's the best damn vanilla you've ever had.

Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 also does a good job, but it does a lot more with the whole mechanism. It's a lot more than just move, shoot, and so forth. There's magic, ranged, and melee for combat; there's stealth, conversations, and perception checks to do; and more. You can talk to animals, throw a barrel of oil and then shoot a fire arrow at it, and so on.

I don't really feel like choosing one but if I had to, I'd say XCOM; I am a sucker for simplicity done well, less is more. That's more preference than any sort of judgement, though, as I said both are incredible.

Divinity OS 2 for sure. There were so many more ways to approach each encounter than XCOM.

D: OS is absolutely superior. Hands down one of the best series ever made.

I suck at turn based games, I can't even get into Total War.

I am looking forward to Baldur's Gate III though.

Can’t choose!! Think Divinity 2 is the superior game but Xcom does combat really really well....!!!