Games like X-COM

X-COM: first released 1994 by Mythos Games.

In the series: UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM) (1994), X-COM: Terror from the Deep (1995), X-COM: Apocalypse (1997), XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012), XCOM 2 (2016).

23 games inspired by X-COM

• Battle Brothers: Medieval mercenary company tactics game in the vein of Jagged Alliance and X-COM.
• Cyber Knights: Flashpoint: Kickstarted cyberpunk heist tactics game.
• EXLCOM: Small free X-COM-like project on the author's own site.
• Fort Triumph: Fantasy squad tactics mixing XCOM battles with a HoMM-style overworld.
• Hard West: Weird West tactics game by former Call of Juarez developers.
• Laser Squad Nemesis: Gollop's play-by-email follow-up to Laser Squad, sold by subscription from the developer's site.
• Long War (XCOM: Enemy Within mod): Free overhaul of XCOM: Enemy Within that restores X-COM's long campaign feel.
• OpenApoc: Open-source reimplementation of X-COM: Apocalypse, partly playable.
• OpenXcom: Open-source rebuild of the X-COM engine with modding support; needs the original data files.
• Phoenix Point: Fig-crowdfunded tactics game by X-COM creator Julian Gollop.
• Phoenix Point: Behemoth Edition: Complete edition of Phoenix Point with its expansions.
• Project Xenocide: Abandoned open-source 3D remake of X-COM.
• Templar Battleforce: Retro-styled mech squad tactics RPG by a two-brother indie studio.
• Terra Invicta: Grand strategy alien invasion game by the Long War mod team.
• The X-Com Files (OpenXcom mod): OpenXcom total conversion with an X-Files style investigation campaign.
• UFO2000: Multiplayer tactical game built on X-COM's battlescape rules.
• UFO: Aftermath: First of the ALTAR UFO trilogy with Aftershock and Afterlight.
• UFO: Alien Invasion: Open-source squad tactics game modeled on X-COM.
• UFO: Extraterrestrials: Czech indie strategy game closely following X-COM's structure.
• X-Force: Fight for Destiny: German freeware X-COM remake, later open-sourced.
• X-Piratez (OpenXcom mod): Huge OpenXcom total conversion where you play space pirate women in a post-invasion world.
• Xenonauts: Kickstarted Cold War remake-in-spirit of X-COM.
• Xenonauts 2: Sequel continuing the X-COM formula, in early access.