Games like UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
If UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold is your kind of game, the closest matches are UFO: Afterlight, X-COM: UFO Defense and Xenonauts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its mod support enhances gameplay, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold: 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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UFO: Afterlight
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Shares tech tree research and a challenging mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Top pick for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
X-COM: UFO Defense
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Shares base management and an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Second-strongest match for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Xenonauts
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Shares tech tree research and an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Third-strongest match for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Ranked #4 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
X-COM: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Ranked #5 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Ranked #6 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares air combat and a challenging mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Ranked #7 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Ranked #8 for UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.
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XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
UFO: Aftershock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
UFO: Aftershock is a combination of tactical squad combat and global strategy that enhances and expands upon its prequel, UFO: Aftermath.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree research and an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
UFO ENEMY KNOWN
WHY THIS
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
UFO: Afterlight
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree research and a challenging mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares air combat and a challenging mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
X-COM: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Reviewers of UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
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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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
PlanetSide 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Take on Duelists around the world with "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links"! Step into a world that crosses dimensions and connects all Duelists. In Duel World, any location transforms into a Duel Field where heated Duels unfold!
Toribash
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
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Frequently asked about UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
- Does UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold run on Steam Deck?
- UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- What games are most similar to UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold are UFO: Afterlight, X-COM: UFO Defense, Xenonauts.
- Who developed UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold?
- UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold was developed by Chaos Concept.
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