Games like XCOM®: Chimera Squad
If XCOM®: Chimera Squad is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gears Tactics, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM® 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 →XCOM: Chimera Squad is a 2020 strategy game by Firaxis Games. It features turn-based tactical combat with a twist: instead of recruiting soldiers, players command a fixed roster of pre-made agents who have distinct abilities. The initiative-based turn-order system means crowd-control and timeline manipulation become as important as raw damage output. Players highlight how the hybrid alien-human squad dynamic creates fresh character dynamics within the police-themed post-war narrative. Reviewers note the tight urban arenas force smart positioning, and describe the missions as short and replayable with high tension. Players describe the overall experience as atmospheric and stressful. Currently priced at $2.99, the game is playable on Steam Deck and holds a 74% positive rating from over 12,000 Steam reviews.
About XCOM®: Chimera Squad: XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
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Gears Tactics
WHY THIS
Top pick for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Second-strongest match for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Third-strongest match for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Ranked #4 for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Fast-paced tactical combat meets strategic management in this sequel to the acclaimed Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus. Take control of either the ancient and deathless Necron legions or the techno-religious acolytes of the Omnissiah, with the fate of a world in your hands.
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Ranked #5 for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Ranked #6 for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Ranked #7 for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Ranked #8 for XCOM®: Chimera Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Xenonauts
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Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Phoenix Point
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Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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!
Gears Tactics
WHY THIS
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Reviewers of XCOM®: Chimera Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below XCOM®: Chimera Squad at current Steam store prices.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
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Priced ~50% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Lead the great armies of the Star Wars™ Episode II: Attack of the Clones saga in intense real-time strategy clashes. Enter the fray as the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Wookies, Trade Federation, Gungans or Royal Naboo to determine the course of the Galactic Civil War.
Russian Life Simulator
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
Achievement Clicker
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!
House of Detention
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Priced ~67% under XCOM®: Chimera Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Unique horror with a Deep plot, a lot of characters, great sound effects and a creepy atmosphere of Real Dungeon. Locker Room, Gym, Various Monsters, Atmospheric Music, Meme Scrolls, The Lash of the Spain King and much more! Right Version Included.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Lab
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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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
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Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
Marvel's Midnight Suns
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Sid Meier's Pirates!
WHY THIS
Another title from Firaxis Games, the studio behind XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with XCOM®: Chimera Squad.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Frequently asked about XCOM®: Chimera Squad
- Does XCOM®: Chimera Squad run on Steam Deck?
- XCOM®: Chimera Squad is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does XCOM®: Chimera Squad cost?
- XCOM®: Chimera Squad is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to XCOM®: Chimera Squad?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside XCOM®: Chimera Squad are Gears Tactics, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM® 2.
- Who developed XCOM®: Chimera Squad?
- XCOM®: Chimera Squad was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
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