Games like MENACE

If MENACE scratched a replayable and tense itch for you, keep reading. You might settle into these games easily.

Warhounds
Warhounds is a turn-based tactics game about an elite mercenary squad in an alternate-future Africa, with an old-school action movie streak. Flank, break cover, seize the high ground, and run a mercenary company between missions. High lethality means every decision counts, and one bad turn can cost a veteran.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$34.99
Xenonauts 2
Command a secret multinational force in an alternate 2009 where the Cold War never ended and aliens are picking sides. Run covert bases across the globe, scramble jets at UFOs, and lead turn-based ground battles where soldiers die and the survivors become veterans. A grim, old-school war of resistance against a smarter enemy.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
81% of 4,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99
USC: Counterforce
Lead your Space Commandos in a revival of turn-based squad tactics inspired by UFO/XCOM and Aliens. Utilize in-depth skill & combat systems in multiple game modes, including a full campaign. Discover the truth behind the demise of colony MC83-A and join the USC in defending humanity!
Replayable, Tense
62% of 208 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Battle Brothers
Lead a mercenary company through a grim medieval world where every hire is a gamble and every battle can cost a brother his life. Turn-based tactics, contracts, coin and consequences in a procedurally generated campaign that never plays out the same way twice.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
87% of 26,437 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Tenebris: Terra Incognita
A dark, hand-drawn tactical RPG: your ship has crashed on a planet crawling with organized bugs. Build heroes from 5 classes into 23 specialists, mix abilities with gear, defend the Solaris, and hunt 17 bosses across a world that punishes sloppy planning.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
80% of 466 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Element Space
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity. Face overwhelming odds with strategy. Make your choices and save us from extinction.
Replayable, Dark
54% of 246 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Xenopurge
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
85% of 430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.49
Every Day We Fight
Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly. Transform a trio of ragtag civilians into seasoned soldiers - and escape the alien timeloop.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
72% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Shock Tactics
Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
40% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
No Plan B
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles. Use the timeline to synchronize each door breach, grenade throw and room entry with precision. Watch your team execute your plan autonomously in epic cinematic replays. Take on challenging roguelike campaigns or standalone missions.
Replayable, Tense
86% of 767 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Into the Breach
Giant bugs are tearing up the surface, and you have three mechs and an 8x8 grid to stop them. Every enemy attack is shown in advance, so losing is never bad luck: it is a mistake you can learn from. Short, tense, endlessly replayable tactics from the makers of FTL.
Replayable, Tense
93% of 19,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 216$14.99
Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
You are the commander of the Black Talons company, currently stationed in the Oberon system. After an eventful campaign, the military Tzanar Union has overrun the planet of Genai and blocked all departure from the system: leaving you and the Black Talons stranded.
Replayable, Tense, Dark
44% of 120 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than MENACE

Warhounds

Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.

$34.99

USC: Counterforce

Lead your Space Commandos in a revival of turn-based squad tactics inspired by UFO/XCOM and Aliens.

$19.99

Battle Brothers

You run a band of hired swords in a grim medieval world: recruiting, equipping and keeping them alive, one contract at a time.

$29.99

Tenebris: Terra Incognita

Crash-land on a hostile world, grow your squad from survivors into specialists, and hold out against a planet that wants you gone.

$19.99

Element Space

Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.

$0.99

Xenopurge

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.

$12.49

Every Day We Fight

Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly.

$29.99

Shock Tactics

Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.

$9.99

No Plan B

Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.

$14.99

Into the Breach

Command three mechs on a tiny battlefield where you see every enemy attack coming and each turn is a puzzle to solve.

$14.99

Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons

You are the commander of the Black Talons company, currently stationed in the Oberon system.

$9.99

Stellar Tactics

A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.

$24.99

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Veterum

March a doomed order through a grim open world and win turn-based battles by bending morale, weather and light to your will.

$19.99

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

A cyberpunk tactical RPG about running heists with a crew you build yourself.

$29.99

NITRO GEN OMEGA

A sandbox tactical RPG of steel, fire, friendship, and shonen anime.

$29.99

Xenopurge

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.

$12.49

Tenebris: Terra Incognita

Crash-land on a hostile world, grow your squad from survivors into specialists, and hold out against a planet that wants you gone.

$19.99

Stellar Tactics

A sci-fi RPG where you wake from cryosleep 500 years late, build a squad of mercenaries and set out into a universe of over 160,000 star systems.

$24.99

Drop Command

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

$22.99

Pawns of War

Build a squad of Pawns, customise their guns, and send them into grid battles where every run plays out differently.

Free

No Plan B

Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.

$14.99

Shardpunk

The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!

$13.99

Xenonauts 2

Scramble jets at UFOs, command ground battles turn by turn, and hold a divided world together one hard decision at a time.

$39.99

Welcome Back, Commander

Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads .

$7.79

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