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Altar Games · 2014 · 65 % positive of 517

24 games that play like UFO: Afterlight and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: UFO: Aftershock, UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold.

Player tags

  • Strategy
  • Tactical
  • Sci-fi
  • Real-Time with Pause
  • Indie
  • Aliens
  • Singleplayer
  • Turn-Based

At a glance

What games like UFO: Afterlight have in common

  • The tags they share most often with UFO: Afterlight: Strategy (24 of 24), Sci-fi (22) and Tactical (14).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2026, 16 of them after UFO: Afterlight (2014).
  • Best rated by Steam players: X-COM: UFO Defense (94 % positive of 3,799).
  • UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Aftermath both play and look like UFO: Afterlight.

By gameplay

Plays like UFO: Afterlight

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. UFO Online: Invasion58 % positive of 614Shared: Strategy · Aliens · Turn-Based
  2. Terra Invicta80 % positive of 6,560Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Real-Time with Pause
  3. RAM Pressure47 % positive of 974Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Sci-fi
  4. Pandora: First Contact62 % positive of 629Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Aliens
  5. Planets Under Attack72 % positive of 1,119Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Indie
  6. Nomad Fleet66 % positive of 209Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Indie
  7. Interplanetary78 % positive of 804Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Turn-Based
  8. Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition84 % positive of 886Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · Turn-Based
  9. I am not a Monster: First Contact76 % positive of 1,259Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Sci-fi
  10. Age of Wonders: Planetfall79 % positive of 6,431Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Sci-fi
  11. XCOM®: Chimera Squad71 % positive of 22,709Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Sci-fi
  12. Heroes of Science and Fiction93 % positive of 332Shared: Strategy · Sci-fi · RPG

By look

Looks like UFO: Afterlight

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Total Annihilation96 % positive of 3,477
  2. Gratuitous Space Battles71 % positive of 848
  3. Parkan 272 % positive of 369
  4. Harvest: Massive Encounter78 % positive of 156
  5. STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga91 % positive of 4,342
  6. Earth 216070 % positive of 1,405
  7. Sid Meier's Starships50 % positive of 2,406
  8. Freespace 278 % positive of 305
  9. State of War : Warmonger / 蓝色警戒 (Classic 2000)89 % positive of 624
  10. Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War77 % positive of 235
  11. Star Wolves84 % positive of 422
  12. Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition48 % positive of 287

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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