Single-player games like UFO: Aftermath
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to UFO: Aftermath, 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: Aftershock
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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UFO: Afterlight
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
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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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — 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: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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7,62 High Calibre
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
7.62 High Calibre is a tactical action game, sequel to Brigade E5. A professional mercenary is in pursuit of a certain Russian "businessman", who stole a large amount of money from his "colleagues". Now he is hiding in a small country of Latin America to avoid an inevitable punishment.
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Brigade E5: New Jagged Union
Single-player alternative to UFO: Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with UFO: Aftermath.
Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical game that places gamers in the small tropical nation of Palinero on the verge of a civil war. The mission: hire a band of mercenaries and take control of the deteriorating situation before the country finds itself in complete ruin.