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2005PC74 % positive3.99 €

A squad-based tactical strategy RPG in the X-COM tradition: lead your team through an alien-ravaged Earth using real-time-with-pause combat, while researching technology and expanding your base.

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Sci-fi setting
Tactical depth
Strong character progression

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The closest matches for UFO: Aftershock are Aliens: Dark Descent, Dark Future: Blood Red States and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes UFO: Aftershock special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Aliens: Dark Descent

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2023PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable88 % positive−70 % ~~39.99 €~~ 11.99 €

A party of several characters
Sci-fi setting
Tactical depth

A tactical real-time-with-pause squad game in the Alien universe: you lead a team of marines through a xenomorph outbreak, managing resources, stress and permanent losses in a tense, bleak atmosphere.

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Dark Future: Blood Red States

A party of several characters

A tactical vehicular combat game in which you lead a gang of highway warriors across a ruined alternate-history America, planning fights with a real-time-shift system. It reboots the cult Games Workshop car combat game.

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

A party of several characters

A tactical real-time space game where you command a fleet through missions across the solar system as mega-corporations clash over a mysterious discovery. The focus is on fleet positioning, subsystem damage and mission planning rather than base building.

Cepheus Protocol

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A real-time strategy game where you lead a squad through an alien-virus-stricken San Francisco, rescuing civilians and hunting patient zero before the Cepheus protocol is enacted.

Star Wolves

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A space tactical RPG where you lead a mercenary squadron of pilots and ships, upgrading them and directing real-time battles with pause against pirates and rogue AIs.

Deadnaut

A party of several characters

A tactical squad game set on derelict spaceships haunted by ghostly enemies, where you guide a small team with pausable real-time orders. Missions are tense, lethal and reward careful planning.

Star Wolves 2

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A space tactics RPG where you command a mercenary squad of fighter pilots, take contracts across an open galaxy, and upgrade ships and crew. Combat runs in real time with pause.

Star Wolves 3: Civil War

A party of several characters

A space tactics RPG with real-time-with-pause combat where you build a mercenary fleet in an anarchic galaxy, take contracts, and upgrade your ships and pilots.

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

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A real-time strategy and action hybrid where you build and recycle units from the carrier Antaeus, taking direct control of individual vehicles in post-war missions. Its unusual mix of unit crafting, hands-on control and mission planning sets it apart.

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction

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A console real-time strategy game set in the Alien vs. Predator universe, where you lead three distinct factions, each with its own units and playstyle, through missions on planet LV-742.