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Games like Xenonauts

Goldhawk Interactive · 2014 · 87 % positive of 4,889

24 games that play like Xenonauts and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Xenonauts 2, X-COM: UFO Defense and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Player tags

  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Turn-Based Tactics
  • Turn-Based Combat
  • Base-Building
  • Grand Strategy
  • Management
  • Singleplayer
  • Strategy

At a glance

What games like Xenonauts have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Xenonauts: Turn-Based Strategy (21 of 24), Turn-Based Tactics (16) and Turn-Based Combat (11).
  • They came out between 2007 and 2026, 16 of them after Xenonauts (2014).
  • Best rated by Steam players: X-COM: UFO Defense (94 % positive of 3,799).
  • Xenonauts 2 both plays and looks like Xenonauts.

By gameplay

Plays like Xenonauts

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

More matches

  1. Phoenix Point72 % positive of 6,344Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy · Strategy
  2. Into the Breach94 % positive of 20,216Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat
  3. Galaxy Squad75 % positive of 423Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat
  4. Terra Invicta80 % positive of 6,560Shared: Grand Strategy · Management · Strategy
  5. Horizon59 % positive of 475Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat
  6. ZEPHON87 % positive of 1,259Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat
  7. RAM Pressure47 % positive of 974Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat
  8. Age of Wonders: Planetfall79 % positive of 6,431Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Management · Strategy
  9. Stars in Shadow78 % positive of 787Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat
  10. Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics76 % positive of 400Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Strategy
  11. Pax Nova57 % positive of 432Shared: Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Combat · Grand Strategy
  12. StarDrive 255 % positive of 2,084Shared: Management · Strategy · Sci-fi

By look

Looks like Xenonauts

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

More matches

  1. Möbius Front '8368 % positive of 483
  2. Drone Sector88 % positive of 406
  3. Alien Shooter: Revisited64 % positive of 791
  4. CryoFall78 % positive of 6,167
  5. SAS: Zombie Assault 486 % positive of 9,112
  6. Zombie Shooter 278 % positive of 833
  7. Krush Kill ‘N Destroy 2: Krossfire70 % positive of 349
  8. Subspace Continuum88 % positive of 599
  9. War Trigger Classic59 % positive of 897
  10. Supreme Ruler 203065 % positive of 472
  11. Emergency 201464 % positive of 356
  12. Phantom Doctrine74 % positive of 4,494

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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