Games like UFO: Afterlight
by Altar Games
The story is situated on Mars. It starts where UFO: Aftermath left off and runs simultaneously with UFO: Aftershock. While the Laputans on Earth are fighting Wargots and Starghosts and finding out what caused the destruction of their home planet, a small colony on Mars is trying to survive and flourish.
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$4.99X-COM: Apocalypse
Sep 4 · MicroProse Software, Inc
Both: Turn-Based · Tactical · Sci-fi
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
StrategyTurn-BasedTacticalSci-fiAliensClassicReal-Time with PauseTurn-Based StrategyIsometricSingleplayer👍 847
UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
Feb 17 · Chaos Concept
Both: Tactical · Turn-Based · Aliens
UFO: Extraterrestrials GOLD is a new GOLD edition which includes a number of changes and improvements giving a player a new look on the classic game: new maps, possibility to hire soldiers, globe UFO swarms and configurability.
StrategyTacticalTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedAliensSci-fiSingleplayerRPG👍 172
$4.99X-COM: UFO Defense
Sep 4 · MicroProse Software, Inc
Both: Sci-fi · Aliens · Turn-Based
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
StrategyClassicTurn-Based StrategySci-fiAliensTurn-BasedTacticalDifficultSingleplayerTurn-Based Tactics👍 3,206
$9.99Original War
Jan 27 · Altar Games
Both: Sci-fi · Real-Time with Pause
An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.
StrategyRTSSci-fiSingleplayerReal-Time with PauseTime TravelRPGIndieMultiplayerStory Rich👍 1,812
-60%$15.99ZEPHON
Nov 8 · Proxy Studios
Both: Turn-Based · Tactical · Sci-fi
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
StrategyTurn-Based4XTacticalMultiplayerLovecraftianSandboxCo-opSci-fiProcedural Generation👍 1,841
$19.99The Last Federation
Apr 18 · Arcen Games
Both: Turn-Based · Sci-fi · Real-Time with Pause
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
StrategySpaceSimulationIndieTurn-Based4XSci-fiGrand StrategyReal-Time with PauseTactical👍 380
-90%$0.99The Red Solstice
Jul 9 · Ironward
Both: Tactical · Sci-fi · Aliens
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
StrategyTacticalRTSSci-fiCo-opAliensSingleplayerReal Time TacticsMultiplayerTop-Down👍 883
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$39.99Xenonauts 2
Apr 2 · Goldhawk Interactive
Both: Sci-fi · Tactical · Turn-Based
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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$19.99XCOM® 2
Feb 4 · Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)
Both: Tactical · Sci-fi
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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$13.99The Protagonist: EX-1
Jul 18 · 3Mind Games
Both: Turn-Based · Tactical · Aliens
You’re a highly trained soldier on a mission to infiltrate an alien space station that goes horribly wrong—find your team and discover the hidden truth. Upgrade, Craft, and Discover technologies, Enhance your character’s skills in this gripping turn-based tactical RPG.
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RAM Pressure
Sep 15 · QuadCom Interactive, GDT
Both: Turn-Based · Tactical · Sci-fi
Tactical story-driven online multiplayer game combining the turn-based combat of X-COM with a deep, well-grounded sci-fi setting. Experience intense tactical online multiplayer action and explore a deep plot and unique storyline built on both single-player and multiplayer missions.
StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-BasedFree to PlayTacticalMultiplayerSci-fiFuturisticActionAtmospheric
-50%$19.99Terra Invicta
Jan 5 · Pavonis Interactive
Both: Tactical
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
StrategyGrand StrategySimulation4XEconomyWarHistoricalTurn-Based StrategyTacticalManagement👍 9,064
$4.99Mars: War Logs
Apr 26 · Spiders
Both: Sci-fi · Mars
An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.
RPGActionSci-fiThird PersonMarsCyberpunkSingleplayerAction RPGStory RichAdventure👍 2,450
Interplanetary
May 12 · Team Jolly Roger
Both: Turn-Based · Sci-fi
In this turn-based strategy game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive artilleries through the unpredictable gravity fields of the planetary system.
StrategyIndieSpaceTurn-Based StrategyTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayerSci-fiPhysicsLocal Multiplayer👍 541



