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Games like UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum

If UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Xenonauts, Hard West and Blackguards — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and retro. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum: UFO: Extraterrestrials PLATINUM is a new edition that includes a number of enhancements that give the player a new perspective on the classic game: new alien species, heavy weapon platforms, heavy mortar, crash site bombardment, unique items, UFO swarms and configurability.

2023StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Chaos Concept
UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum — Steam game cover
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Expanded alien tech and new unitsFaithful homage to 1993 xcomHardcore difficulty with adjustable settingsAtmosphericChallengingRetro

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Steam players who put hours into UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Xenonauts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Top pick for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Hard West

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Second-strongest match for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blackguards

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Third-strongest match for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Stirring Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Ranked #4 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Wintermoor Tactics Club

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based tactics with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Ranked #5 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Ranked #6 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Ranked #7 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Guide Tahira, the 20-year old princess of Avestan, through the most challenging night of her life in this epic tactical turn-based adventure. You must fight to save your people from the genocidal Astral Empire on a world fallen into a medieval dark age after the collapse of a spacefaring civilisation.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Company of Crime

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Ranked #8 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares RPG with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Limbus Company

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.

    2023FreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Clicker Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  7. Toribash

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!

    2014ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Kingdom: Classic

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum.

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum

Does UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum run on Steam Deck?
UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum cost?
UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum are Xenonauts, Hard West, Blackguards.
Who developed UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum?
UFO: Extraterrestrials Platinum was developed by Chaos Concept.

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