Single-player games like UFO: Afterlight
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to UFO: Afterlight, 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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UFO: Aftermath
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.
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UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
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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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
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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UFO: Aftershock
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
UFO: Aftershock is a combination of tactical squad combat and global strategy that enhances and expands upon its prequel, UFO: Aftermath.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
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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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
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Jagged Alliance - Back in Action
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
A contemporary remake of the much-loved series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
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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UFO ENEMY KNOWN
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
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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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
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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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — 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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Original War
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.
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Fish Fillets 2
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
In this underwater puzzle game you control fish secret agents Max Flounder and Tina Guppy. Seemingly a common case turns into a tough fight with a mysterious enemy and the strings appear to lead pretty high. Fortunately, you are not alone.