Games like The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
If The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space (2008), LOST PLANET® 3 and Dead Space™ 2 — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is a third-person tactical shooter developed by 2K Marin, released in 2013 at $19.99. Set during the Cold War, the game tasks players with commanding a squad against an alien threat threatening America in 1962. The title blends action gameplay with tactical strategy, requiring players to issue commands to squad members while engaging enemies from a third-person perspective. Reviewers highlight the game's atmospheric Cold War setting as a notable element of its presentation. The experience is solo-only with a challenging difficulty curve and a medium-length campaign designed for focused sit-down play sessions. The game holds a 64% positive rating from 2887 Steam reviews and is verified for play on Steam Deck.
About The Bureau: XCOM Declassified: 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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Dead Space (2008)
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Top pick for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
LOST PLANET® 3
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Second-strongest match for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
The extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before. Lost Planet 3 reveals new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.
Dead Space™ 2
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Third-strongest match for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Dead Space
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Ranked #4 for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
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Ranked #5 for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
HITMAN™
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Ranked #6 for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
Phoenix Point
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Ranked #7 for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
X-COM: Enforcer
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Ranked #8 for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
X-COM: Earth's top-secret eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit The Place: America - early 21st century The Mission: Eradicate the extraterrestrials Alien forces have invaded Earth and are terrorizing the population.
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Mass Effect (2007)
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As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Spec Ops: The Line
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A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
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Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to the next. You got this. Probably.
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™
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With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).
Destroy All Humans!
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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.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
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Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
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Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Bureau: XCOM Declassified at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under The Bureau: XCOM Declassified on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under The Bureau: XCOM Declassified on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under The Bureau: XCOM Declassified on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under The Bureau: XCOM Declassified on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
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
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Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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.
STRAFTAT
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You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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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.
Dead Space (2008)
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
LOST PLANET® 3
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
The extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before. Lost Planet 3 reveals new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.
Phoenix Point
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
Frequently asked about The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
- Is The Bureau: XCOM Declassified verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Bureau: XCOM Declassified cost?
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Bureau: XCOM Declassified are Dead Space (2008), LOST PLANET® 3, Dead Space™ 2.
- Who developed The Bureau: XCOM Declassified?
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified was developed by 2K Marin and published by 2K.
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