Games like X-COM: Interceptor
Looking for games like X-COM: Interceptor? Here are top real-time strategy recommendations with a horror and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with X-COM: Interceptor, STAR WARS™ Rebellion or SPACECOM.
1 59%Game Brain Scorestory, optimizationgameplay, graphics59% User Score 174 reviewsThey're back...only this time the heinous aliens are out to destroy Earth and rule the new frontier. As X-COM commander, it's your sole duty to protect humanity and the prized mining operations in outer space. You must strategically equip your X-COM fighters, amass a formidable arsenal and then fulfill your mandate by going head-to-head with the devious element. The action is fast. And the opposin…
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89%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, music89% User Score 1,560 reviewsSubvert the Empire. Crush the Alliance. Your Choice. Your Destiny. It is a time of great upheaval. The first Death Star has been destroyed, marking a major victory for the Rebellion. But the Empire remains strong. As commander, you must choose to take control of either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire. Your goal: complete domination of the galaxy. Take the galaxy by force. Take the gala…
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68%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyreplayability, grinding63% User Score 248 reviewsCritic Score 88%2 reviewsA strategic-to-the-bone, star fleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding79% User Score 878 reviewsInterplanetary is a turn-based strategy artillery game based on a hard scifi setting. It offers players an interplanetary battlefield where they can develop their home planets and use massive artilleries to wage war. It's an arms race of interplanetary scale, with each planet developing increasingly powerful railguns, missiles and even beam weapons. Sometimes, the greatest foe is the unpredictabl…
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability83% User Score 1,175 reviewsCritic Score 71%9 reviewsHalcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro sci-fi strategy RPG with a unique blend of base building, exploration and deep tactical JRPG style combat system with capital starships and their idiosyncratic officers, all captured in stunningly beautiful modernized pixel graphics. In Halcyon 6, an unknown alien force is carving a path of destruction towards Earth and you, as the Commander of an immensely…
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74%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicstory, gameplay76% User Score 140 reviewsCritic Score 68%1 reviewsUFO: Aftershock is a combination of tactical squad combat and global strategy that enhances and expands upon its prequel, UFO: Aftermath. It is the year 2054. Fifty years after the disaster. Fifty years after the surface of Earth became uninhabitable. Retreating to the flying haven of the Laputa the remnants of humankind clung onto existence. Then a revolt against the increasingly rigid and corru…
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability76% User Score 3,698 reviewsCritic Score 66%9 reviewsA unique blend of space sim, RPG and 4X games. Conduct research and construction in your own gigantic space station, command your war fleets and heroic companions to invade enemy territory, build up your stronghold, trade, mine, salvage and remind your enemies why they fear you.
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74%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, stability77% User Score 900 reviewsCritic Score 66%3 reviewsWho needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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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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43%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, music43% User Score 106 reviewsUnder Domain - Alien Invasion Simulator will surprise you with a Sci-fi turn-based game completely different from others. How about turning yourself into an Alien and planning an invasion to Planet Earth? You can secretly influence human history and build war machines to exterminate human beings.
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