Games like X-COM: Terror From the Deep
If X-COM: Terror From the Deep is your kind of game, the closest matches are X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Apocalypse and Underwater Wars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, grim and tense. 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 X-COM: Terror From the Deep: 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.
Players who liked X-COM: Terror From the Deep also play
Steam players who put hours into X-COM: Terror From the Deep 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.
X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Top pick for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
X-COM: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Second-strongest match for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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.
Underwater Wars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Underwater Wars is a tactical turn-based strategy game that takes place in the depths of the ocean. Two powerful factions of people are fighting a war for territory and resources, but everything changes when mysterious "Aliens" enter the conflict.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Ranked #4 for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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.
Stirring Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Ranked #5 for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Ranked #6 for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Gears Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Ranked #8 for X-COM: Terror From the Deep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below X-COM: Terror From the Deep at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Majesty Gold HD
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under X-COM: Terror From the Deep on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
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!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.
X-COM: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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.
X-COM: Enforcer
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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.
X-COM: Interceptor
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
They're back...only this time the heinous aliens are out to destroy Earth and rule the new frontier. As X-COM commander, it's your sole duty to protect humanity and the prized mining operations in outer space.
Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
Ahoy mateys! From the Mind of Sid Meier, The Golden Age of Buccaneering has returned with Pirates! Gold!
BloodNet
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
I met her in her penthouse, expecting payment for the freelance job-and perhaps a little more. But I got more than I bargained for. I'm now part of an exclusive fraternity that moves catlike in the night through a world of high technology and senseless violence.
Frequently asked about X-COM: Terror From the Deep
- Does X-COM: Terror From the Deep work on Steam Deck?
- X-COM: Terror From the Deep is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does X-COM: Terror From the Deep cost?
- X-COM: Terror From the Deep is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to X-COM: Terror From the Deep?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside X-COM: Terror From the Deep are X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Apocalypse, Underwater Wars.
- Who developed X-COM: Terror From the Deep?
- X-COM: Terror From the Deep was developed by MicroProse Software, Inc and published by 2K.
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 X-COM: Terror From the Deep.
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