Single-player games like XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
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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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
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.
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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
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BATTLETECH
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
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FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Featuring fully voiced dialogue, beautifully enhanced graphics, and countless gameplay improvements, the genre-defining tactical RPG makes its long-awaited return.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Silent Storm Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Silent Storm from leading Russian developer Nival is a true 3D tactical turn-based Role-Playing-Game set against the backdrop of WWII. As the conflict rages on the frontlines, you’ll be leading a small multinational squad behind enemy lines to gather information and wreak havoc on your enemies while trying to thwart a mysterious new...
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Shadowrun Returns
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
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Marvel's Midnight Suns
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Single-player alternative to XCOM: Enemy Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!