Games like X-COM: Apocalypse
Looking for games like X-COM: Apocalypse? Here are top tactical turn-based strategy recommendations with a horror, warfare and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with X-COM: UFO Defense, Xenonauts or XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
1 89%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization97% User Score 4,522 reviewsCritic Score 60%2 reviewsYou are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace. Shooting down UFOs is just the beginning: you must then lead a squad of heavily-armed soldiers across different terrains as they investigate the UFO crash site. Tackle the aliens with automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and even tanks in the struggle to retrieve useful technol…
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2 84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding87% User Score 5,068 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsXenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet, using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs a…
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3 94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding94% User Score 46,499 reviewsThe complete edition of XCOM: Enemy Unknown contains the games: - XCOM: Enemy Unknown - XCOM: Enemy Within - XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot - XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Elite Soldier Pack
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4 87%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, stability90% User Score 586 reviewsCritic Score 72%1 reviewsThe war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension. Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth. In the dark depths of vast oceans, long sleeping forces are awakened by reanimatio…
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5 76%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding76% User Score 216 reviewsUFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.
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6 87%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding87% User Score 760 reviews1943: The world seems to face its destruction in all parts; war is raging like never before. You are the commander of a squad, leading the soldiers you’ve selected into special and top secret operations to change the tide of war in your favour – allies or axis.
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7 71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability71% User Score 4,968 reviewsCritic Score 70%2 reviewsPhoenix Point is the new strategy game from the creator of the original X-COM series. It features turn based tactics and world based strategy in a fight against a terrifying, alien menace.
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8 84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability85% User Score 59,932 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsXCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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9 81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization81% User Score 2,358 reviewsA follow-up to Xenonauts that takes place in an alternative timeline.
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10 96%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, stability96% User Score 2,100 reviewsMaster of Orion 2 also known as MOO2 is considered the classic 4x turn based strategy game set in space. The game has a kind of cult status and even by to days standards is still only matched in game play by very few of its competitors.
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