Single-player games like XCOM® 2
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to XCOM® 2, 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: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Marvel's Midnight Suns
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Shadowrun Returns
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to XCOM® 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with XCOM® 2.
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® 2 — 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!