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MicroProse Software, Inc · 2008 · 88 % positive of 897

24 games that play like X-COM: Apocalypse and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: X-COM: UFO Defense, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and X-COM: Interceptor.

Player tags

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

At a glance

What games like X-COM: Apocalypse have in common

  • The tags they share most often with X-COM: Apocalypse: Strategy (23 of 24), Tactical (21) and Turn-Based (18).
  • They came out between 2007 and 2026, 20 of them after X-COM: Apocalypse (2008).
  • Best rated by Steam players: X-COM: UFO Defense (94 % positive of 3,799).
  • 4 games both play and look like X-COM: Apocalypse, among them X-COM: UFO Defense, X-COM: Interceptor and Xenonauts.

By gameplay

Plays like X-COM: Apocalypse

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

More matches

  1. ZEPHON87 % positive of 1,259Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  2. USC: Counterforce70 % positive of 209Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  3. UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold77 % positive of 238Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  4. RAM Pressure47 % positive of 974Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  5. UFO Online: Invasion58 % positive of 614Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Aliens
  6. Aliens: Dark Descent88 % positive of 15,650Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Sci-fi
  7. Into the Breach94 % positive of 20,216Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  8. Infested Planet93 % positive of 2,957Shared: Strategy · Tactical · Sci-fi
  9. UFO: Afterlight65 % positive of 517Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  10. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden90 % positive of 19,928Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  11. Age of Wonders: Planetfall79 % positive of 6,431Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical
  12. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified70 % positive of 11,786Shared: Strategy · Turn-Based · Tactical

By look

Looks like X-COM: Apocalypse

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

More matches

  1. Mainframe Defenders88 % positive of 691
  2. Emerge: Cities of the Apocalypse68 % positive of 159
  3. M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration87 % positive of 181
  4. STAR WARS™ Rebellion89 % positive of 1,355
  5. Xenonauts 280 % positive of 2,952
  6. Convoy78 % positive of 1,438
  7. Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection90 % positive of 32,960
  8. Chaos Galaxy83 % positive of 289
  9. Imperium Galactica II87 % positive of 591
  10. Alien Shooter TD86 % positive of 879
  11. Subspace Continuum88 % positive of 599
  12. Xeno Crisis86 % positive of 182

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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