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Games Like X-COM: UFO Defense
Dec 31, 1993·97% positive·
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
Best games like X-COM: UFO Defense
The best games like X-COM: UFO Defense are X-COM: Terror From the Deep, X-COM: Apocalypse, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, and Xenonauts. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 97% positive across 3k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Strategy, platform support for Windows, and $4.99 pricing signal.
- X-COM: Terror From the Deep - X-COM: Terror From the Deep is closely similar to X-COM: UFO Defense because both games are made by MicroProse Software, Inc, and both are Strategy games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Classic, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- X-COM: Apocalypse - X-COM: Apocalypse is closely similar to X-COM: UFO Defense because both games are made by MicroProse Software, Inc, and both are Strategy games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Classic, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown - XCOM: Enemy Unknown is closely similar to X-COM: UFO Defense because both are Strategy games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Sci-fi, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- XCOM 2 - XCOM 2 is closely similar to X-COM: UFO Defense because both are Strategy games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Sci-fi, Turn-Based, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
- Xenonauts - Xenonauts is closely similar to X-COM: UFO Defense because both are Strategy games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Sci-fi, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
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About X-COM: UFO DefenseShow moreShow less
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace. Features:
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Command deadly close-combat battles Shooting down UFOs is just the beginning: you must then lead a squad of heavily-armed soldiers across different terrains as they investigate the UFO crash site. Tackle the aliens with automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and even tanks in the struggle to retrieve useful technology, weapons or life forms.
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Research and manufacture alien technologies Successful ground assault missions will allow X-COM scientists to analyze alien items. Each new breakthrough brings you a little closer to understanding the technology and culture of the alien races. Once you have sufficient research data on the UFO's superior weapons and crafts, you'll be able to manufacture weapons of equal capability.
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Develop a strategy to save the Earth You must make every crucial decision as you combat the powerful alien forces. But you'll also need to watch the world political situation: governments may be forced into secret pacts with the aliens and then begin to reduce X-COM funding.
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