Element Space
Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.
54% of 246 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like Shock Tactics
If Shock Tactics scratched a tense and replayable itch for you, keep reading. Give these games a try when the craving hits.
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!
Tense, Replayable
62% of 208 Steam reviews are positive$19.99MENACE
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.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
90% of 12,879 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$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.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
93% of 40,504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 787$14.99Stellar 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. Turn-based ground combat in the classic style, ships to customize, board and capture, mining, trading and a galaxy slowly eaten by a disease called Phage. Big, slow, old-fashioned and generous with your time.
Replayable, Dark
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
75% of 359 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Strain Tactics
Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!
Tense, Replayable, Dark
87% of 216 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Warhounds
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.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
70% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$34.99Ultimate Space Commando
USC is a turn-based, top-down view tactics game in which you control the crew of a stranded recon vessel in a "first contact war" for survival, featuring a detailed combat system with RPG elements, fully interactive randomized maps, unique weapons and gadgets, crafting, and custom multiplayer modes.
Tense, Replayable
81% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Xenonauts 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.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
81% of 4,968 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99Galaxy Squad
Galaxy squad is a hardcore turn-based tactical roguelike, inspired by FTL and XCOM.
Tense, Replayable
74% of 385 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Element 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$0.99Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion – Turn-Based Strategy
Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion - a turn-based strategy where you command SOF forces against an alien threat. Investigate disappearances, fight the invaders, and uncover the mystery. Every decision affects the fate of humanity.
Tense, Dark
59% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than Shock Tactics
Beat the Humans
Beat the Humans is the turn-based tactical strategy game. Here you lead an army of aliens against invaders from the human race.
75% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Arma Tactics
Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where you take control of a four-member Special Forces team.
33% of 411 Steam reviews are positive$1.79
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
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
Steam Tactics
Welcome aboard your airship, captain! Engage in tactical combats, upgrade your ships and weapons, level up your pilots.
88% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Godless Tactics
Lead an elite strike team through the wars of a reborn civilisation, and decide the fate of humanity through your achievements and choices.
95% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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 3,218 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$4.99
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Lead an elite fighting team battling for freedom from the sinister forces of the Earth Hegemony.
96% of 106 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Space Tales
Space Tales is a sci-fi RTS where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies.
78% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
MechCorp
MechCorp. is a turn-based-tactics/strategy game where you take command of a mercenary mech squadron in space.
79% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Live Hard, Die Hard
Busy but Addictive! This BATTLE x MEDICAL Counter-Invasion Real-Time Strategy is like nothing you've ever seen!
89% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Shock Tactics
Heroes of Science and Fiction
Lead one of five factions through a cut-off star system, turn by turn, and win battles with plans instead of numbers.
89% of 867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$29.99
Xenopurge
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.
85% of 431 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.24
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.
80% of 467 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$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.
77% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$24.99
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
Chains of Freedom
Command an elite squad through a collapsing dystopian state, one carefully planned firefight at a time.
80% of 540 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$12.49
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 12,879 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 4,968 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 234$39.99
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
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: 30$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 439 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
STAR WARS Zero Company™
Turn-based tactics where scoundrels, clones, a Jedi and your choices carry each run somewhere new.
83% of 23,530 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,055$49.99
Newest games like Shock Tactics
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 439 Steam reviews are positive$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.
80% of 467 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
STAR WARS Zero Company™
Turn-based tactics where scoundrels, clones, a Jedi and your choices carry each run somewhere new.
83% of 23,530 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,055$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: 30$34.99
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 positive$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 4,968 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
Heroes of Science and Fiction
Lead one of five factions through a cut-off star system, turn by turn, and win battles with plans instead of numbers.
89% of 867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$29.99
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 12,879 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 801$39.99
Xenopurge
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.
85% of 431 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.24
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
Shards of the Realm
Create your own story in a deep Strategy/Tactical RPG. Manage your party and fortress, explore, craft gear, research technologies, and make…
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$19.99