Games like Phoenix Point
If Phoenix Point is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Xenonauts and Void Marauders — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and stressful. 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 →Phoenix Point is a hard, long, solo-only strategy and RPG released in 2020 by Snapshot Games Inc., priced at $24.99 USD and verified on Steam Deck. The game features faction-politics, modular-progression, and resource-management across a campaign where faction-alliances-and-wars-determine-campaign-outcome. Combat incorporates a limb-targeting-system, physics-based-aiming that negates-point-blank-misses, and procedural-enemy-evolution where enemies-evolve-dynamically-based-on-player-inaction. Players describe it as atmospheric, immersive, stressful, and tense, with reviewers highlighting that the limb-targeting-system-adds-tactical-depth and that modding-support-allows-deep-customization through Steam Workshop. The title holds a 71% positive rating from over 3000 Steam reviews.
About Phoenix Point: 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!
Players who liked Phoenix Point also play
Steam players who put hours into Phoenix Point 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.
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Top pick for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Phoenix Point.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Second-strongest match for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
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.
Void Marauders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Third-strongest match for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
Lead a band of space pirates and loot and pillage your way across the stars in this turn based tactical game!
Alien Shooter 2 - New Era
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Ranked #4 for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Phoenix Point.
A desert, an abandoned city, cramped underground corridors of MAGMAs research centers, and for hundreds of kilometers around there is only darkness and thousands of monsters coming from all sides. You have only two options - to achieve your goal or die.
Raiders! Forsaken Earth
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Phoenix Point.
Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...
Undeadly
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Ranked #6 for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
THE DEAD RISE - Direct a group of survivors in a turn-based strategy survival game. Use survivor abilities, scavenge for resources, all while navigating a warped reality strewn with inexplicable phenomena. Come nightfall, undead seek the living. Can you survive, UNDEADLY?
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Phoenix Point.
Ranked #7 for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Skyshine's BEDLAM
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Ranked #8 for Phoenix Point fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
BEDLAM is a strategic turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Now with more battle strategy!!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Phoenix Point
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XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Reviewers of Phoenix Point cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
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.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Phoenix Point 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: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Phoenix Point.
Reviewers of Phoenix Point cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Reviewers of Phoenix Point cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Phoenix Point at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Phoenix Point on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Phoenix Point on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Phoenix Point.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Phoenix Point on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Phoenix Point.
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!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Phoenix Point on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Phoenix Point on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Phoenix Point on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
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!
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!
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Phoenix Point.
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!
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
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More from Snapshot Games Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Snapshot Games Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Chaos Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Phoenix Point.
Another title from Snapshot Games Inc., the studio behind Phoenix Point. Shares Strategy and RPG with Phoenix Point.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
Frosthaven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Point.
Another title from Snapshot Games Inc., the studio behind Phoenix Point. Shares Strategy and RPG with Phoenix Point.
From the creative mind of Isaac Childres, the highly acclaimed board game moves to the digital realm in the video game adaptation of FROSTHAVEN! The dark fantasy tactical RPG features deep mechanics and challenging yet satisfying gameplay both in Single Player and Co-Op Online Multiplayer.
Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids
WHY THIS
Another title from Snapshot Games Inc., the studio behind Phoenix Point. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Point.
Build bases, lead an army of robots, and squash brains in this radical hybrid between RTS and third-person shooter. Join a duo of quirky heroes on a mission to save Earth, smash an evil alien corporation, and complete their comic book collection.
Frequently asked about Phoenix Point
- Is Phoenix Point verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Phoenix Point 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 Phoenix Point cost?
- Phoenix Point is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Phoenix Point?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Phoenix Point are Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Xenonauts, Void Marauders.
- Who developed Phoenix Point?
- Phoenix Point was developed by Snapshot Games Inc..
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