Single-player games like X-COM: Interceptor
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to X-COM: Interceptor, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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X-COM: Enforcer
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Strike Suit Zero
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Pilot the mecha Strike Suit across massive fleet battles where your dogfighting skills decide Earth's fate. Fast, frantic space combat with capital ship destruction, multiple endings, and a universe that's anything but empty. This is space combat reborn.
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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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X: Beyond the Frontier
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
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.
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X2: The Threat
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
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UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with X-COM: Interceptor.
UFO: Extraterrestrials GOLD is a new GOLD edition which includes a number of changes and improvements giving a player a new look on the classic game: new maps, possibility to hire soldiers, globe UFO swarms and configurability.
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Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
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Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ahoy mateys! From the Mind of Sid Meier, The Golden Age of Buccaneering has returned with Pirates! Gold!
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BloodNet
Single-player alternative to X-COM: Interceptor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.