Games like Attack of the Earthlings
If Attack of the Earthlings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Apprentice of Darkness, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Slayaway Camp — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hand crafted level details, missions have distinct objectives and atmospheric. 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 Attack of the Earthlings: Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.
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Steam players who put hours into Attack of the Earthlings also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Apprentice of Darkness
WHY THIS
Top pick for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Play as a dark magician, gather your party of all sorts of evil, unspeakable creatures and spread darkness! A turn-based rogue-like experience with dark humour elements! Sacrifice your enemies to Evil Gods, gain powers and upgrade your Tower of Darkness to spread corruption throughout the continent.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
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Slayaway Camp
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Third-strongest match for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.
Reverse Crawl
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Ranked #5 for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Ranked #6 for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
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.
US Spy: Mission in Russia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
In this game, you have to become a spy from the USA. Your key goal is to incite a revolution in Russia. It's the right time to bribe officials and lawmakers just to make them doing those unacceptable things and accepting ridiculous laws. People have to get out on the street and riot.
Space Tyrant
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Ranked #8 for Attack of the Earthlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Terrorize the galaxy for fun and profit! Space Tyrant is a surprisingly deep beer & pretzels strategy game set in a darkly humorous future. Build a mighty space force, disintegrate peaceful aliens, and rule irresponsibly on your relentless march to total domination.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
HELLDIVERS™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
Evil Genius
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
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.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Destroy All Humans!
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Reviewers of Attack of the Earthlings cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Attack of the Earthlings at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Attack of the Earthlings.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Attack of the Earthlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Team Junkfish
Other recommendable Steam games by Team Junkfish, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Monstrum
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Another title from Team Junkfish, the studio behind Attack of the Earthlings. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
Monstrum 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Another title from Team Junkfish, the studio behind Attack of the Earthlings. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Monstrum 2 is a survival horror game for 2-5 players, set inside the procedurally-generated sea labyrinth - Sparrowlock. Join a team of prisoners evading the terrors within whilst figuring out how to escape, or become one of the deadly monstrosities whose only goal is to hunt them down.
Monstrum 2 Beta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Attack of the Earthlings.
Another title from Team Junkfish, the studio behind Attack of the Earthlings. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Monstrum 2 is a survival horror game for 2-5 players, set inside the procedurally-generated sea labyrinth - Sparrowlock. Join a team of prisoners evading the terrors within whilst figuring out how to escape, or become one of the deadly monstrosities whose only goal is to hunt them down.
Bootleg Steamer
WHY THIS
Another title from Team Junkfish, the studio behind Attack of the Earthlings. Shares Strategy and Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
In this rogue-like game, you embark on your journey as a captain during the tumultuous American Prohibition. Overcome challenges like inclement weather, relentless Coast Guard pursuit, shrewd Mafia dealings, and your own financial pitfalls, all while ensuring your path to wealth remains unhindered.
Wilderdark
WHY THIS
Another title from Team Junkfish, the studio behind Attack of the Earthlings. Shares Indie with Attack of the Earthlings.
Something dangerous is lurking in the wilderness. Wilderdark is a first-person survival horror game where you must navigate a strange island inhabited by ectoparasitic dinosaurs and organisms. You must remain vigilant to stealthily obtain evidence, samples, and craft tools to survive.
Frequently asked about Attack of the Earthlings
- How much does Attack of the Earthlings cost?
- Attack of the Earthlings is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Attack of the Earthlings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Attack of the Earthlings are Apprentice of Darkness, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Slayaway Camp.
- Who developed Attack of the Earthlings?
- Attack of the Earthlings was developed by Team Junkfish and published by Junkfish Limited.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Attack of the Earthlings.
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