Games like X-COM: Interceptor
If X-COM: Interceptor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starfield Battlegrounds, Nibiru Voyage and DarkSpase — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and lighthearted. 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: Interceptor: 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.
Players who liked X-COM: Interceptor also play
Steam players who put hours into X-COM: Interceptor 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.
Starfield Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Top pick for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
On the occasion of the invasion of alien races, in order to defend our homeland on Earth, you will play the role of one of humanity's ace pilots, piloting aircraft provided by various countries, galloping in the universe, and fighting against alien fleets.
Nibiru Voyage
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Nibiru Voyage is a classic scrolling game with weapon upgrades and hordes of enemy ships.
DarkSpase
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Galaga meets Tie Fighter meets Elite Dangerous. A sci-fi starfighter combat sim with NASA-accurate Keplerian orbits. Voyage across the Solar System with real-time FTL. Engage Dregg swarms in dynamic PvE encounters. Outmaneuver invaders by pushing Newtonian physics to the limit at 150 m/s.
Farlane
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Command a Nomad-class Frontier Runner and lead your crew on the edge of a fading galactic empire. Take on freelance contracts, explore unstable farlanes, upgrade your ship, and survive where civilization ends.
Starbase Gunship
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Starbase Gunship places you in the seat of a weapons officer on a state-of-the-art Gunship as you defend a remote outpost from an Alien invasion fleet. With access to laser cannons, missiles, miniguns and nuclear warheads, you are the last line of defense between humanity and the alien invaders.
Orbital Invaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
3D Sci-Fi arcade Shoot'em up game. Destroy asteroids and aliens. Shoot them all!3D arena shooter with multiple worlds. Spaceship simulator and shmup arcade style game.
Aero Striker - World Invasion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for X-COM: Interceptor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Aero Striker is a highly stylized action-packed flight combat simulator game that is intentionally designed to be easy to make it more enjoyable and less nerve-racking. The aim is to have fun making aliens explode while experiencing the sensation of flying. Let none of the evil aliens escape!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below X-COM: Interceptor at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under X-COM: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
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: Interceptor.
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.
DCS World Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Feel the excitement of flying the Su-25T "Frogfoot" attack jet and the TF-51D "Mustang" in the free-to-play Digital Combat Simulator World!
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Moonbase Alpha
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.
Alien Swarm
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
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More from MicroProse Software, Inc
Other recommendable Steam games by MicroProse Software, Inc, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
X-COM: UFO Defense
WHY THIS
Shares base management, permadeath and an atmospheric mood with X-COM: Interceptor.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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
Shares a retro mood with X-COM: Interceptor.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor.
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 an atmospheric mood with X-COM: Interceptor.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Terror From the Deep
WHY THIS
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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.
X-COM: Enforcer
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with X-COM: Interceptor.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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.
Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with X-COM: Interceptor.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor.
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with X-COM: Interceptor.
Another title from MicroProse Software, Inc, the studio behind X-COM: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor.
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: Interceptor
- How much does X-COM: Interceptor cost?
- X-COM: Interceptor is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does X-COM: Interceptor have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — X-COM: Interceptor supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to X-COM: Interceptor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside X-COM: Interceptor are Starfield Battlegrounds, Nibiru Voyage, DarkSpase.
- Who developed X-COM: Interceptor?
- X-COM: Interceptor was developed by MicroProse Software, Inc and published by 2K.
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