Single-player games like UFO: Afterlight
Below are 16 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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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...
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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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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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The Red Solstice
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Afterlight.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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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® 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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Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
Single-player alternative to UFO: Afterlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with UFO: Afterlight.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!
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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.