PigDude - FTL is hard man, I've only beaten it once and that was on easy. Unlocked 4 extra ships now too.
Must have put about 35/40 hours into it now. There's a few update for it coming adding extra systems races, weapons the lot and it's FREE (if you have the game).
It was my first experience of Rouge type games and I have to say, I'm thoroughly hooked on them. I bet some if the old school ones are very unforgiving.
XCOM - YES. My mate i gifting me this through Steam as a birthday gift. I've been watching a play through by Yogsccast on YouTube, turned it off after about 2 episodes as it looked awesome and I thought I'd give it a whirl, again, I've never really played a turned based game like this but with all the other RPG elements in it it's so deep, so yeah, looking forward to getting into that.