Games like Xenonauts 2
If Xenonauts 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terra Invicta, Old World and Breachway — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 →Xenonauts 2 is a hard strategy game developed by Goldhawk Interactive in which players manage a global resistance against an alien invasion. The solo campaign combines base management, research and development, and resource gathering with turn-based tactical combat across extended sessions. Players command unit upgrades and engage in strategic warfare against a technologically superior foe, with an 83% positive rating from 2639 Steam reviews. Reviewers describe the gameplay as nostalgic and improved over classic X-COM titles, and highlight that tactical positioning matters in engagements. The game is priced at $39.99 USD and is marked playable on Steam Deck.
About Xenonauts 2: Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Top pick for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Old World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Second-strongest match for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Breachway
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Third-strongest match for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.
Heart of the Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Ranked #4 for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
ENDLESS™ Legend 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Ranked #5 for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
WHY THIS
Shares unit upgrades, tactical combat and an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Ranked #6 for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Xenonauts 2.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
ZEPHON
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Ranked #7 for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Xenonauts 2.
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Xenonauts 2.
Ranked #8 for Xenonauts 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Xenonauts 2
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Xenonauts 2.
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 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.
Iron Harvest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.
UFO ENEMY KNOWN
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
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.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares base management and an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Reviewers of Xenonauts 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Xenonauts 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Xenonauts 2.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Xenonauts 2 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Xenonauts 2.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Xenonauts 2.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Xenonauts 2.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Xenonauts 2.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Xenonauts 2.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Xenonauts 2.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Heart of the Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Xenonauts 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 2.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Xenonauts 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenonauts 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!
Frequently asked about Xenonauts 2
- Does Xenonauts 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Xenonauts 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Xenonauts 2 cost?
- Xenonauts 2 is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Xenonauts 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Xenonauts 2 are Terra Invicta, Old World, Breachway.
- Who developed Xenonauts 2?
- Xenonauts 2 was developed by Goldhawk Interactive and published by Hooded Horse.
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