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2020PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable87 % positive4.90 €

A turn-based tactics game set in a retrofuturistic AI research complex, where you lead a squad of four prototype units against a computer virus. Limited items and drawbacks demand careful planning across missions like defending, downloading data and destroying fabricators.

Turn-based combat
A party of several characters
Tactical depth
Sci-fi setting

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The closest matches for Mainframe Defenders are XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Menace and Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Mainframe Defenders special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Mainframe Defenders

Best alternative overall: XCOM: Enemy Unknown 93% match – Turn-based combat
With more action: Menace 92% match – with combat
Newest alternative: Shardpunk 91% match – released 2023

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

93 %Match

2012PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable93 % positive14.99 €

Turn-based tactical battles against alien invaders where cover, positioning and class abilities decide the outcome. Between missions you manage your base, research and funding, and fallen soldiers are gone for good.

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Menace

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactical RPG from the Battle Brothers developers: you lead an elite strike force against an alien menace, equipping infantry and fielding tanks and mechs in demanding, carefully planned battles.

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactical RPG where you play a young troubleshooter building a team and tackling demanding battles in a world shaped by crime and conflict.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Turn-based combat

Turn-based tactics in the Warhammer 40,000 universe: as a Magos you lead Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests across a Necron tomb world. A dark, atmospheric game with resource management, squad upgrades and tight, punchy battles.

X-COM: UFO Defense

Turn-based combat

The legendary tactics classic pairs tense turn-based squad missions against aliens with global base building, research and tight budget management. Soldiers die permanently, and every strategic decision can save or doom humanity.

Shardpunk

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics game set in a grim steampunk world overrun by rats, blending XCOM-style squad combat with Darkest Dungeon-like stress and resource pressure. You lead a small squad through dangerous missions where every decision counts.

BattleTech

Turn-based combat

Tactical turn-based combat with giant mechs where armor, heat and positioning decide battles. As a mercenary commander you manage pilots, mechs and finances through a campaign set in 3025.

Halfway

Sci-fi setting

A pixel-art turn-based tactical RPG set in a future where colonizing humanity meets alien forces. You lead a squad, using positioning, cover and abilities to win grid-based battles.

X-COM: Terror From the Deep

Turn-based combat

The notoriously punishing sequel to UFO Defense moves the alien war to the ocean depths, combining base building and research with turn-based squad missions against Lovecraftian sea horrors. Its creepy atmosphere and brutal difficulty made it a cult classic.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

Turn-based combat

A turn-based tactics game in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where you command Grey Knights against Nurgle's plague, managing your ship and growing your warriors through classes and gear. Battles are brutal and destructible, and your squad is always at risk.