XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Lead a squad against the alien invasion, where each mission is a tense tactical puzzle and fallen soldiers stay fallen.
93% of 40,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 787$14.99
Games like Phoenix Point
Want something that feels replayable and dark the way Phoenix Point does? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
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, Dark, Tense
81% of 4,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Command Earth's last defense against a global alien invasion. Build out your underground base, research alien tech, and lead a hand-picked squad in tense turn-based firefights where one bad move can cost a veteran soldier for good. Losing hurts, which is why winning feels so good.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
93% of 40,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 787$14.99ZEPHON
A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth. Lead survivors down human, eldritch or machine paths, build cities on a scarred world, and fight turn-based battles where every unit matters. When the final war comes, you pick a side and pray you picked right.
Replayable, Dark, Story-driven
83% of 1,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114$39.99X-COM: UFO Defense
You run X-COM, the world's answer to an alien invasion: shoot down UFOs, lead soldiers through their wreckage, and turn captured tech against the invaders while governments threaten to pull funding. A tense, punishing 1994 strategy classic where every decision, and every loss, sticks with you.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
96% of 3,216 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$4.99MENACE
Lead marines, mercenaries and criminals across the cut-off Wayback system to stop an alien threat. You answer distress calls, build infantry squads and tanks, and fight hard turn-based battles where suppression, cover and range decide who walks home.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
90% of 12,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99Terra Invicta
Pick one of seven human factions and fight over how to face an alien invasion: seize control of Earth's nations from the shadows, research your way into space, mine asteroids, and build fleets for Newtonian fleet battles across a moving Solar System.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
79% of 9,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Turn-based tactics with a twist: before any fight starts, you sneak. Lead a small band of mutants, a foul-tempered duck and a boar included, through a quiet, overgrown end-of-the-world, picking off patrols unseen or choosing your moment to strike. XCOM-style combat, real-time stealth and a strange, funny, bleak world worth exploring for its own sake.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
89% of 13,366 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$34.99UFO: Aftermath
UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
77% of 276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99Infested Planet
Five soldiers. One hundred thousand bugs. Infested Planet is a top-down tactical fight where the alien horde mutates every mission and your squad can be rebuilt mid-battle. Burn, flank, fall back and adapt, in short, brutal sessions that keep pulling you back for one more run.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
94% of 2,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99Aliens: Dark Descent
Lead a squad of Colonial Marines in real time against a Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe. Sneak, fight and manage your soldiers' stress while the hive adapts to you, death is permanent and every mission leaves its mark. A tense, dark tactical game with a real Aliens feel.
Replayable, Dark, Story-driven
87% of 15,498 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 285$39.99USC: 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$19.99ENDLESS Legend™ 2
A fantasy 4X on an ocean world that keeps changing under you. Lead wildly different factions, from star-descended knights to a hive that only knows how to feed, raise armies, and race to uncover what stirs beneath the planet. Every faction plays differently, and the tidefalls keep the map, and your plans, moving.
Replayable
82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Cheaper than Phoenix Point
XCOM® 2
Twenty years after Earth surrendered, you lead the scattered remains of XCOM from a stolen alien ship.
84% of 80,503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,486$19.99
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Command eleven agents through tense turn-based breaches while unrest threatens to tear City 31 apart.
71% of 20,638 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$9.99
X-COM: UFO Defense
Run the global defense effort: intercept UFOs, fight through crash sites turn by turn, and build the bases and research that keep humanity alive.
96% of 3,216 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$4.99
X-COM: Apocalypse
Command X-COM in a besieged megacity, fighting aliens in the streets, the labs and the boardrooms, turn by turn or in real time.
89% of 858 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$4.99
UFO: Aftermath
UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.
77% of 276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99
Infested Planet
Lead a small squad against a mutating alien swarm, rebuilding your tactics mid-fight to survive each brutal, fast-paced run.
94% of 2,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
USC: Counterforce
Lead your Space Commandos in a revival of turn-based squad tactics inspired by UFO/XCOM and Aliens.
62% of 208 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Xenopurge
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.
85% of 430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.49
Shock Tactics
Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.
40% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
UFO: Aftershock
UFO: Aftershock is a combination of tactical squad combat and global strategy that enhances and expands upon its prequel, UFO: Aftermath.
77% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$3.99
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Command X-COM's fight against aliens rising from the deep, from sunken bases to dark turn-based battles where no soldier is safe.
92% of 771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$4.99
Hidden gems like Phoenix Point
Pax Autocratica
Run a totalitarian colony, bend citizens to your will and charge into the war yourself in first person.
90% of 4,138 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$29.99
Xenopurge
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.
85% of 430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.49
ENDLESS Legend™ 2
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
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.
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
ZEPHON
A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth.
83% of 1,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114$39.99
Shardpunk
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!
92% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
MENACE
Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.
90% of 12,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99
Xenonauts 2
Scramble jets at UFOs, command ground battles turn by turn, and hold a divided world together one hard decision at a time.
81% of 4,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99
Chromosome Evil 2
Command a strike team and a resource-starved convoy through a Lovecraftian apocalypse, in real time or with active pause.
87% of 256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$1.99
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 .
80% of 233 Steam reviews are positive$7.79
Warhounds
Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$34.99
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.
72% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Newest games like Phoenix Point
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.
72% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
ENDLESS Legend™ 2
Guide one of several distinct factions across a living ocean planet, building armies and economies while the tides reshape your route to victory.
82% of 3,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 456$49.99
Warhounds
Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$34.99
Pax Autocratica
Run a totalitarian colony, bend citizens to your will and charge into the war yourself in first person.
90% of 4,138 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$29.99
Quasimorph
Run a space PMC in a dark cyberpunk roguelike where death costs you everything you carried in.
82% of 7,609 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 540$24.99
Cosmos point
Control a squad of fighters in turn-based battles. The game pays great attention to the details of equipment - weapons, backpacks, a lot of grenades…
79% of 82 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Xenonauts 2
Scramble jets at UFOs, command ground battles turn by turn, and hold a divided world together one hard decision at a time.
81% of 4,958 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99
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.
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
MENACE
Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.
90% of 12,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99
Terra Invicta
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
79% of 9,162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 578$39.99
Xenopurge
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.
85% of 430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.49
Void Marauders
Lead a band of space pirates and loot and pillage your way across the stars in this turn based tactical game!
77% of 106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99