Single-player games like UFO: Aftershock
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to UFO: Aftershock, 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: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
UFO: Aftermath is a 3D isometric, tactical strategy game with a rich and compelling sci fi story.
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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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UFO: Afterlight
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
The story is situated on Mars. It starts where UFO: Aftermath left off and runs simultaneously with UFO: Aftershock. While the Laputans on Earth are fighting Wargots and Starghosts and finding out what caused the destruction of their home planet, a small colony on Mars is trying to survive and flourish.
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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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The Red Solstice
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
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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Startopia
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
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Star Wolves 3: Civil War
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
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: Aftershock — 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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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftershock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftershock.
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.