There is a doomsday timer out of the get go and I can't disable it in settings or anything - here is a negative review from me, sign here, here and here. Good luck.

The doomsday clock mechanic takes so much away from this reskinned xcom rather than add to it. Its such a shame as I loved the first game dearly. If there is a way to turn off this feature, that'd be great

Sadly an less than mediocre UFO/XCOM clone.

It has some good ideas but it doesnt achieve to stand out to the other titles of this genre.
Even more, it takes all kind of ideas and mechanics from other games like this (which is totally fine imo) but then implements these worse than the originals.
Also many QoL-Options are missing (for example speeding up turns of alies and foes).
So in the end it feels very sluggish and kind of old (and not the cool "retro" kind of old, sadly).

And the further you play, the more bugs appear, for example the game does not recognize some key inputs unless you press the key several times. how many times i had have to press a key even rised the further i played (ofc my first thought was that my keyboard was broken, but i could exclude this).
Then it also started to crash more an more. First only sometimes in loading screens, then also sometimes when i saved or loaded a savegame. Then more and more often while save/loading, then sometimes even while in normal play (in tactical missions only). I guess it may be some kind of mem-leak, dunno.
So i´m about 45hrs in and the game is unplayable for me now with this savegame. Repair and reinstall didnt help.

As this game is in EA for quite some time now and is still in this state, i dont have much hope that this will get any better, but hey, i wish to get proven wrong here.