SIMILAR GAMES

Games like XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Enjoyed XCOM: Enemy Unknown? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as XCOM: Enemy Within, XCOM: Chimera Squad, Xenonauts. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About XCOM: Enemy Unknown: XCOM: Enemy Unknown puts the player in command of XCOM, a secret paramilitary organization defending Earth against an alien invasion. As commander you manage resources, advance technologies and direct combat strategy and unit tactics. You recruit and customize soldiers, build and expand the base, intercept the threat, deploy aircraft such as the Interceptor and Skyranger, and lead squads in turn-based ground battles with action sequences. The campaign spans more than 70 missions worldwide, and the original has been re-imagined by the strategy experts at Firaxis Games with a new invasion story, enemies and technologies.

Updated 13 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

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XCOM: Enemy Within

XCOM: Enemy Within is the expansion to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 Game of the Year award-winning strategy game. It adds new abilities, upgrades and weapons against new enemy and alien threats. Build the Genetics Lab to enhance operatives, or the Cybernetics Lab to construct the Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit called MEC with its MEC Trooper class; gather the alien resource Meld in battle and face two new alien types and the organization EXALT. Over 40 new battlefields, new multiplayer maps, units and abilities, and one-on-one turn-based matches await.

XCOM: Chimera Squad

XCOM: Chimera Squad offers a new story and turn-based tactical combat set in the XCOM universe. Five years after the events of XCOM 2, humans and aliens are building a civilization of cooperation and coexistence in City 31. Not all inhabitants support the interspecies alliance, so an elite team of human and alien agents, Chimera Squad, fights the underground threats driving the city toward chaos. The player sends chosen agents to investigate and combat dangers in the districts of City 31, uses a new breach phase and interleaved turns based on initiative in combat, and outside of battle runs the HQ and decides which tasks to prioritize.

Xenonauts

Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you command a multinational military organisation defending the planet during the Cold War era against an alien invasion. Small squads of soldiers who persist from mission to mission eliminate enemies and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat. The strategic layer covers planetary defence with customisable interceptors that shoot down UFOs, plus research into captured artefacts. It is a spiritual successor to the classic X-Com games of the 1990s.

Phoenix Point

Phoenix Point is a strategy game from the creators of X-COM, in which the player leads the secret Phoenix Project against a mutating alien threat that adapts to their tactics. Tactical battles take place on procedurally generated maps, while on a global scale the player manages diplomacy, economy, research, exploration and base building. Relations with the factions New Jericho, Synedrion and Disciples of Anu can be handled through cooperation, subterfuge or military force. Thanks to Steam Workshop support, players can use and modify mods.

UFO: Aftermath

UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric tactical strategy game with a rich sci-fi story, in which the player fights an alien invasion. It combines global strategy with small squad tactical combat, and its missions are generated at runtime with simultaneous combat actions. Strong RPG elements let soldiers improve with experience across six attributes: Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Willpower, Intelligence and Perception. Combat blends turn-based and real-time features: orders are given while the game is paused, and the game pauses automatically when important events occur.

UFO: Aftershock

UFO: Aftershock combines tactical squad combat with global strategy and expands on its predecessor, UFO: Aftermath. It is set in 2054, fifty years after a disaster that left the surface of the planet uninhabitable. Survivors whose colony on the flying haven Laputa was destroyed by a revolt against the increasingly rigid and corrupt leadership must flee again and find out whether they can reclaim the planet from unknown forces that chased them into the skies. Players manage resources and bases, lead small-scale missions inside and outside multi-level buildings, and make use of destructible environments and diplomacy.