Single-player games like Xenonauts
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Xenonauts, 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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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
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 2
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
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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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
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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UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
UFO: Extraterrestrials GOLD is a new GOLD edition which includes a number of changes and improvements giving a player a new look on the classic game: new maps, possibility to hire soldiers, globe UFO swarms and configurability.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenonauts.
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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Silent Storm Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
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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Phantom Doctrine
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
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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UFO2: Extraterrestrials
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
Are strategy games with strong RPG elements your cup of tea? Did you enjoy games like Xcom: UFO Defence, the Fallout series, the Civilization series, the Heroes of Might and magic? And now you are looking for something new to satisfy your craving for turn-based fun?
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UFO ENEMY KNOWN
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Xenonauts.
Help aliens invade Earth in this procedurally-generated, infinite, 3D shooter game. Fully destructible cityscapes and a wide variety of destruction-wreaking weapons. Visit (rampage and destroy) cities of future Earth and Mars block by block. Chaotic battle scenes as rubble and vehicles pile up.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Xenonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts.
Experience a true classic! This Gold edition includes the original Jagged Alliance plus the add-on Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games. Take a trip into retro land and learn why this is considered to be one the best turn-based games of all times.