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
Games like Xenonauts
Miss the replayable and tense pull of Xenonauts? These games are a good place to start.
X-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, Tense, Retro
96% of 3,218 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$4.99XCOM: 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, Tense
93% of 40,504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 787$14.99UFO2: Extraterrestrials
Are strategy games with strong RPG elements your cup of tea? Did you enjoy games like Xcom: UFO Defence, the Fallout series, the Civilization series, the Heroes of Might and magic? And now you are looking for something new to satisfy your craving for turn-based fun?
Retro
60% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$34.99UFO: Aftermath
UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.
Tense, Retro
77% of 276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$3.99Phoenix Point
Earth is lost to a mutating alien plague, and the Phoenix Project answers to you. A grim, demanding strategy game from the creator of X-COM.
Replayable, Tense
73% of 5,422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 209$24.99Aliens: 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, Tense
87% of 15,522 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 285$39.99Xenowars
This is a turn-based strategy/RPG game set in the stars. In the early stages, you will recruit a team of experts on Earth for exploring a distant alien homeworld, choosing between scientists, mutants, and soldiers. Scour the planet for lost alien technology and uncover the secrets to Earth’s doom.
Replayable
84% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Xenopurge
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
85% of 431 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.24Future 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
59% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Terra 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, Tense
79% of 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 573$39.99MENACE
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, Tense
90% of 12,879 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 669$39.99ZEPHON
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, Tense
83% of 1,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114$39.99
Cheaper than Xenonauts
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 40,504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 787$14.99
XCOM® 2
Twenty years after Earth surrendered, you lead the scattered remains of XCOM from a stolen alien ship.
84% of 80,558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,285$19.99
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
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
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Command eleven agents through tense turn-based breaches while unrest threatens to tear City 31 apart.
71% of 20,642 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$9.99
X-COM: Interceptor
They're back...only this time the heinous aliens are out to destroy Earth and rule the new frontier.
55% of 162 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Xenowars
This is a turn-based strategy/RPG game set in the stars. In the early stages, you will recruit a team of experts on Earth for exploring a distant…
84% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Future 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.
59% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
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
Hidden gems like Xenonauts
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
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack
Lead a faction of ideologues across an alien world, out-think six rivals and shape a whole planet's future one turn at a time.
90% of 610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 51$4.99
ZEPHON
A post-apocalyptic 4X where humanity's leftovers fight over a ruined Earth.
83% of 1,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 114$39.99
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: 669$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
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
Exogate Initiative
Build an underground facility, recruit a team of specialists and explore new worlds through the Exogate.
76% of 699 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.24
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 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 573$39.99
Aliens: Dark Descent
Lead a squad of Colonial Marines in real time against a Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
87% of 15,522 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 285$39.99
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
Attack of the Earthlings
Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that…
84% of 338 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Newest games like Xenonauts
Drop Command
Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.
80% of 155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
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
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
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
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: 669$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 9,174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 573$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
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
Earth vs Mars
Faced with a terrifying Martian invasion, you must lead Earth’s forces in a battle for our planet’s future.
85% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Exogate Initiative
Build an underground facility, recruit a team of specialists and explore new worlds through the Exogate.
76% of 699 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.24
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