This takes it a few steps farther. Redditor crruzi, (as found by Polygon) a programmer learning Visual Basic for Applications, decided to make an XCOM game with Microsoft Excel.

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Redditor crruzi, however, managed to build a fully-functioning XCOM game that plays inside of Excel. We're not talking about something basic and barely functional.

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Unity, Unreal and Havoc are but three game engines used as the basis for many modern computer games. However, it appears a new force may be in town in the unlikely form of Microsoft Excel ...

Compared to past attempts at rendering graphics in Microsoft Excel, like the " Fallout for Excel " game, this is far more ambitious, though similarly limited in scope and playability. While there ...