How I play, why I stop playing, and a feature idea

I like Xenonauts a lot. I like turn-based squad combat, and it does that well. I usually play on Ironman, but not for the usual reason. I play Ironman because I don't like saving my game or messing with save games. On Ironman, I quit and the game is still saved. I play a lot and I only have one save slot; I don't have to pick through a ton of them. I am continuously on one save with little or no involvement from me. So I am willing to take a few permanent casualties in trade. But when my elite squad wipes because I mistook the second level of a building for the first level; or I accidentally clicked move when I meant not to; or whatever, I don't want to play that Ironman any more. Its too much.

So, I need an Ironman save system, with a cancel button. Or a go back one game week. Or, as a last resort, even a previous autosave normally hidden by a "continue" button on the main screen. I would not stop playing Xenonauts then.

If Chris and GH do a remake, as he has mentioned, I would really love this as a new feature.

You can forcequit with Alt + F4 when misclicks and such happen, and when you reload you'll start again at the beginning of your turn, provided no casualties happened during that turn, because the game automatically saves whenever a soldier dies.

Don't know if you've played Invisible Inc. at all, but that has a system that allows you to rewind a turn even though otherwise it's played Ironman. You only get a limited number of uses, though (depending on the difficulty level). It's a really good system; I'd really like to see something like that implemented in future games.

@EvilEagles - Alt + F4 serves some of that purpose for me, but I usually only want to go back if its an all death sort of situation.

@Kabill - thanks for the tip! Invisible Inc looks interesting and that seems like a reasonable way to balance ironman and selective save loading.