Games like X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Looking for games like X-COM: Terror From the Deep? 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 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 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 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 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 Game5 View Game81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization81% User Score 2,358 reviewsXenonauts 2 is a strategy game where you command a global organization defending Earth from alien invasions. Manage resources, research technologies, and command troops in tactical battles. Experience improved graphics, new maps, and expanded gameplay mechanics over its predecessor. Confirmation code: 480XIWKW7H
View Game6 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 Game7 View Game84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability85% User Score 59,932 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsIn XCOM 2, players lead the resistance against an alien occupation on Earth, commanding a force of soldiers in turn-based combat missions. The game features strategy layers including base building, research, and global tactics to manage, with procedurally generated levels ensuring unique challenges. As the commander of XCOM, players must make difficult decisions and plan carefully to make every soldier count in the fight for humanity's survival.
View Game8 View Game80%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding80% User Score 1,314 reviewsFallout Tacts: Brotherhood Of Steel is a Science Fiction Open World game that offers both single-player and multi-player modes. Players join the Brotherhood of Steel, a group protecting civilization from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The game emphasizes tactical squad-based combat, where weapons are crucial and squadmates become like family, offering honor, respect, and the spoils of war for those who survive.
View Game9 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 Game10 View Game77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, replayability78% User Score 287 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviews"Men of War: Red Tide" is a sequel to the critically acclaimed RTS, allowing players to command the Soviet Marines, known as the "Black Coats," in over 20 missions during World War II. The game features new units, weapons, and air and naval support options, providing direct control over tanks, artillery, and more in a stunning mixture of RTS and third-person action. Fighting takes place across various environments, requiring strategic planning and tactical execution.
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