Games like UFO: Aftermath
Looking for games like UFO: Aftermath? Here are top tactical turn-based strategy recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with X-COM: UFO Defense, XCOM: Enemy Unknown or X-COM: Apocalypse.
1 View Game89%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization97% User Score 4,522 reviewsCritic Score 60%2 reviewsIn X-COM: UFO Defense, you command a global military organization fighting an alien invasion. After shooting down UFOs, lead soldiers in investigating crash sites, battling aliens, and recovering valuable technology. Researching and manufacturing alien tech brings you closer to understanding and defeating the extraterrestrial threat.
View Game2 View Game94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding94% User Score 46,499 reviewsIn XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you command a secret organization, XCOM, to defend Earth from an alien invasion. You must manage resources, research alien technology, and oversee military strategies to combat the extraterrestrial threat. This updated version of the classic game offers new enemies, technologies, and a fresh invasion story, while preserving the series' strategic gameplay and base management features.
View Game3 View Game90%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding90% User Score 1,108 reviewsX-COM: Apocalypse is a strategy game set in a dystopian future where humanity is protected by the X-COM organization from alien threats. Players must manage resources, research new technologies, and command a squad of soldiers in turn-based combat against extraterrestrial enemies. The game takes place in a single city, Mega Primus, and offers a non-linear story with multiple endings.
View Game4 View Game84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding87% User Score 5,068 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsXenonauts is a single-player, turn-based strategy game set in a 1960s Earth defended against alien invasion. Players manage a military organization, completing ground missions with persistent soldiers and intercepting UFOs. With good game mechanics, graphics, and soundtrack, Xenonauts offers a wholesome and replayable experience, although some bugs and grinding may be present. Based on classic X-Com games, it aims to modernize and introduce the genre to new players.
View Game5 View Game70%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, music69% User Score 342 reviewsCritic Score 75%2 reviews"UFO: Afterlight" is a turn-based strategy game where players lead a human colony on Mars, building bases and managing resources while defending against alien attacks. The game features technology research, character development, and strategic combat against a variety of alien races. Players must balance colony needs with the need to prepare for an anticipated alien invasion.
View Game6 View Game67%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability65% User Score 6,070 reviewsCritic Score 70%7 reviewsIn "The Bureau: XCOM Declassified," play as Special Agent Carter and lead your squad to investigate a top-secret facility that has gone silent. Uncover the mystery behind the radio silence, eliminate threats, and bring the facility back online to turn the tides of the secret war. This tactical third-person shooter game requires strategic planning and quick decision-making.
View Game7 View Game94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaymusic, grinding94% User Score 823 reviewsTemplar Battleforce is a turn-based strategy game set in a science fiction universe. As the commander of a group of Templars, elite soldiers with powerful suits of armor, you must defend human colonies from hostile aliens. Customize your Templars' abilities, weapons, and equipment, and use strategic positioning and special abilities to overcome your enemies in tactical combat.
View Game8 View Game81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding81% User Score 6,190 reviewsCritic Score 80%12 reviewsWasteland 2: Director's Cut is a post-apocalyptic RPG, serving as the sequel to the original 1988 game. Experience over 80 hours of gameplay, making strategic decisions with permanent consequences and customizing your Desert Ranger squad with a vast array of weapons. Explore a highly reactive world with hundreds of characters and thousands of appearance options, ensuring no two playthroughs are the same.
View Game9 View Game71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability71% User Score 4,968 reviewsCritic Score 70%2 reviewsIn Phoenix Point, lead the Phoenix Project to reconquer a post-apocalyptic Earth overrun by mutating aliens. Manage resources, research new technologies, and build your bases to dominate the battlefield. Shape your strategy through diplomacy or combat with various human factions, all vying for survival and power in a ruined world.
View Game10 View Game74%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability77% User Score 3,402 reviewsCritic Score 72%9 reviewsSatellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game set in a fully simulated, cyberpunk city. Control a team of four agents in single-player or co-op mode, using stealth, agility, and firepower to complete missions and battle for control of the city. With a wide range of abilities and upgrades available, every choice you make will shape the outcome of your mission.
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