Indie · Simulation
Xenonauts
★87%· 4.9k reviews~27 h on averageReleased 2014
IndieSimulationStrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatBase-BuildingGrand Strategy
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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Xenonauts 2
Released after Xenonauts. Kept out of the recommendations so they stay clean, but worth knowing.
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