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XCOM is a science fiction strategic battle game where you control units to stop an alien invasion. The long-running series has come in many forms, but always has in common the finely tuned turn-based ground combat where you control a squad of soldiers to hunt the aliens.

Unfortunately, XCOM is not available on Switch. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/1994, updated in 2017

Price: 90% off

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Players: 1-2 (2 online)

Genres: Battle, Strategy (Action, Adventure, Fighting, Role-Play, Shooting and Simulation)

Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )

Components: 3D Third-Person

Developer: Firaxis Games (@FiraxisGames)

Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass

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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed XCOM. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed XCOM.

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

Release Date: 13/03/2015

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. is a turn-based strategy game where an elite group of soldiers (inspired by characters from American literature) defend Earth from alien invaders in an alternate steam-powered future. While it sounds wacky, there's a surprising...

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Release Date: 17/08/2023

Out Now: PC, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a stealth strategy game set in a fantasy golden age of piracy. You play by controlling a crew of pirates with different abilities, on a ghost ship with a living soul.

The Lamplighters League

Release Date: 03/10/2023

Out Now: PC and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid

The Lamplighters League is a tactical strategy game where a team of cartoony misfits use their unique abilities to outwit enemies. Play mixes real-time infiltration and turn-based tactical combat where every character matters if you are going to come...

Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Release Date: 06/08/2019

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a turn-based strategy game with a large strategic map that leads to multiple turn-based battles. You build your empire with one of six unique factions, progress through each faction’s missions using your wits, military...

Total War

Total War (Series)

Release Date: 13/06/2000, updated in 2019

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Components: 3D Third-Person

Total War is a series of strategic turn-based war games. Each game has a different historical or fantasy setting where multiple armies battle and compete for territory. You can win by military force, religion, diplomacy, espionage and economics.

Moonbreaker

Release Date: 29/09/2022

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Moonbreaker is a strategy game that plays like a physical tabletop game. Using hand-painted figures you fight opponents in tactical turn-based battles in a new universe created by bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. It has the detailed painting,...

46 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed XCOM. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed XCOM.

Age of Empires IV

Release Date: 02/02/1998, updated in 2023

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS2, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World

Age of Empires IV is a strategy game where you command an ancient civilisation in real-time and must develop from hunter-gatherers to advanced forms of defence and war. This is similar territory to Civilization but focuses on...

Kingdom

Kingdom (Series)

Release Date: 21/10/2015

Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels

Kingdom is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day by day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves of...

Valkyria Chronicles 4

Release Date: 21/03/2018, updated in 2020

Out Now: Android, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PSP, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Grid, Hand-Made and Weather

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a turn-based strategy game where you take command of a squad of soldiers and use your wits and tactics to plan and lead them to battle. You play as Commander Claude Wallace and the soldiers of Squad E and experience a gripping...

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes

Release Date: 01/12/2009, updated in 2011

Out Now: DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is a strategic battle puzzle where you position units to form patterns that determine how they behave. The play combines the simple matching of Candy Crush with the complex strategy of Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. It...

Carrion

Release Date: 23/07/2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Release Date: 29/08/2017

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is a chess-like strategy game where you control cartoon rabbits (the Rabbids) and Nintendo characters in turn-based battles with fantastical weapons through four different worlds.

Into The Breach

Release Date: 27/02/2018, updated in 2020

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Hand-Made and Pixels

Into the Breach is a fantasy turn-based battle. It's set in a future where humanity fights an army of giant monsters. You control mechs equipped with a variety of weapons and armour in carefully coordinated actions played out on super-small tile-based...

Invisible Inc

Release Date: 12/05/2015, updated in 2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Invisible Inc is a tactical adventure where you direct espionage agents in covert missions to acquire resources and support to relocate your agency's computer system to a safe haven within a limited amount of time.

Sid Meier's Civilization

Sid Meier's Civilization (Series)

Release Date: 21/10/2016, updated in 2019

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Open World

Sid Meier's Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps by building wonders to impress other...

Transformers: Battlegrounds

Release Date: 23/10/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities. It offers a robot-themed XCOM-style game for younger players.

Pikmin

Release Date: 26/10/2001, updated in 2009

Out Now: GameCube, Wii and Wii U

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Pikmin is a real-time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin. You are able to control and use these creatures to knock down walls, build bridges and attack...

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed (Series)

Release Date: 24/06/2005, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed is an action-adventure game that parodies Cold War-era alien invasion films. With open-world a bit like Grand Theft Auto, you play the alien Crypto, tasked to gather DNA from humans and explore the open-world levels to...

For The King

Release Date: 19/04/2018, updated in 2019

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

For The King is a strategy game where you play an adventurer bringing peace to the kingdom of Fahrul. It's like a tabletop board game, with rewards and hits determined by dice rolls, but combines this with more traditional video game fights. You gather...

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope

Release Date: 20/10/2022

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a strategy game where you control Ubisoft's Rabbids (cartoon rabbits) and Nintendo's Mario team in turn-based battles. It expands upon the previous game by adding a wider...

Aliens: Fireteam Elite

Release Date: 24/08/2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative shooting game set 23 years after the original films. Unlike the stealthy Alien: Isolation, Fireteam Elite draws on Aliens: Colonial Marines' breathless shooting and racing pulse.

Cannon Brawl

Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On

Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...

Clash Royale

Release Date: 02/03/2016

Out Now: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid

Clash Royale is a real-time strategy game where you collect cards to gain units and powers for a player vs. player battle. It's like a simpler version of Clash of Clans.

Mass Effect

Mass Effect (Series)

Release Date: 20/11/2007

Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Mass Effect is a sci-fi adventure where you role-play a soldier named Commander Shepard, who must save the galaxy from a race of powerful mechanical beings. The series started in 2007 and has fourth substantial instalments that take you from that first...

Research and Destroy

Release Date: 26/04/2022

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Research and Destroy is an action game that combines turn-based strategy with real-time, fast-paced shooting as you play a trio of scientists saving humanity from a zombie apocalypse. Each turn you have 8 seconds to do as much damage to the hordes of...

Slay the Spire

Release Date: 15/11/2017, updated in 2019

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made

Slay the Spire is an adventure battle card game. You play one of four characters attempting to ascend a spire of multiple floors. You fight enemies and bosses by playing cards you have collected. You gain new cards as rewards from combat. With 100's to...

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Release Date: 07/10/2022, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Marvel's Midnight Suns is an action-strategy game set within the Marvel universe. You interact with and play alongside famous Marvel superheroes in turn-based battles, where cards dictate the attacks you can use. It's the way you must adjust your...

No Plan B

Release Date: 01/12/2021

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

No Plan B is a tactical role-play game where you plan missions to neutralise various threats. Unusually, you don't directly control your team during the action. Instead, you plan orders for them ahead of time then watch as they execute your commands in...

Planetside 2

Release Date: 20/11/2012, updated in 2019

Out Now: PC and PS4

Components: 3D First-Person and Open World

PlanetSide 2 is a free online game you play with thousands of other players online. Set in a sci-fi universe, players join factions and then fight together to win territories. These massive battles feature typical first person shooter elements such as...

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Release Date: 30/08/2016

Out Now: PC, Switch and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a game based on the choose-your-own-adventure books from the 90's.

Pikmin 2

Release Date: 08/10/2004, updated in 2009

Out Now: GameCube and Wii

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Pikmin 2 is the second in the Pikmin Series, Captain Olimar is joined by his assistant Louie on a mysterious planet. You are collecting treasures consisting of scrap metal, and broken toys. You do this by controlling plant-like creatures called Pikmin,...

Wargroove

Release Date: 01/02/2019

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid

Wargroove is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.

Fire Emblem Engage

Fire Emblem Engage (Series)

Release Date: 20/04/1990, updated in 2023

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, GBA, GameCube, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Grid

Fire Emblem Engage is a series of strategy games where you help an ensemble cast of characters fight off evil. You gather heroes, unlock weapons and special abilities to aid your fight in tactical turn-based combat. It's not just a tactics game though,...

Pawnbarian

Release Date: 24/09/2021

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Board and Grid

Pawnbarian is a puzzle game where you attack enemies in a dungeon based on chess moves. You build a deck of different pieces and use them in battles

Live A Live

Release Date: 02/09/1994, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Live A Live is a remake of the 1994 game released only in Japan, it's a fighting role-playing game where you play seven characters across time in unique stories. In each, you defeat enemies in tactical turn-based fights where each attack has a distinct...

Really Bad Chess

Release Date: 13/10/2016, updated in 2017

Out Now: Android, iOS and iPhone, iPad

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text

Really Bad Chess is like chess, but with random pieces selected for each player. Try 8 Knights, 4 Bishops, and 3 pawns. Starting positions are also non-standard. It sounds like a bad idea (hence the name) but actually opens the imposing chess challenge...

Tactical Breach Wizards

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Tactical Breach Wizards is a small-scale, turn-based fighting and shooting game. You play a team of wizards in modern-day tactical gear, breaching and clearing rooms full of enemies with a combination of guns, abilities and spells.

Triangle Strategy

Release Date: 04/03/2022, updated in 2022

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

Triangle Strategy is an action role-playing game that combines a complex branching plot with grid-based battles like Fire Emblem or Advance Wars. It stands out not only for its unusual diorama visuals, but by creating an intertwining story of many...

Wandering Sword

Release Date: 15/09/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

Wandering Sword is a combat-focused role-play game where you traverse ancient China with a band of swordsmen to master the highest forms of martial arts. You explore the countryside, towns and cities to bond with townspeople and recruit warriors to help...

Disintegration

Release Date: 15/06/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person

Disintegration is a sci-fi shooting game, from some of the developers behind Halo and XCom, that combines first-person combat and real-time battlefield strategy.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Release Date: 14/09/2012, updated in 2014

Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

FTL: Faster Than Light is a strategic simulation game where you combat enemy spaceships and survive the dangers of the galaxy. Unusually, you have complete control of every function of your ship and must manage systems, crew and scenarios. It's a hard...

Spaceland

Release Date: 30/10/2019

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.

After Midnight

Release Date: 16/10/2020

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made

After Midnight is a small puzzle-style role play game where you lead a team of animal medics to contain a virus outbreak in a hospital. It's a simple game that offers a window into the life of a health worker. Subsidised by the National Centre for...

Aliens: Dark Descent

Release Date: 19/06/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Aliens: Dark Descent is a strategy game where you command a squad of soldiers as they face creatures from the Alien films. However, rather than using brute force, you must sneak around and avoid detection, both to keep the aliens unaware of your...

Inkulinati

Release Date: 31/01/2023

Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text

Inkulinati is a strategy game where you fight an opponent using medieval drawings. Using a range of weapons, attacks, defences and abilities, you move your characters, based on real medieval drawings, around the page to defeat enemies as a story about...

Midnight Protocol

Release Date: 13/10/2021

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Text

Midnight Protocol is a strategy game about hacking that is controlled entirely with the keyboard. You type commands and interactions to hack into different systems and drain them of resources while trying to keep yourself hidden and safe. It's this...

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Release Date: 06/12/2016

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth strategy game set in Japan, where a new Shogun employs five recruits to use assassination, sabotage and espionage to enforce peace in the country. Play involves commanding a team of specialists to sneak...

The Last Friend

Release Date: 30/09/2021, updated in 2022

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid

The Last Friend is a strategy fighting game where you defend your team of dogs from the waves of baddies and bosses on a mission to save all the doggos. Play is a combination of managing your turret defences and running around beating up the onslaught...

Luckitown

Luckitown (Sokpop)

Release Date: 20/01/2022

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Dice and Grid

Luckitown is a turn-based strategy game. You build a town around your castle to defend it from incoming enemies. You then roll dice and select combinations of results that allow you to buy and place defensive buildings while every turn the enemies move...

Howl

Release Date: 14/11/2023

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Board, Grid and Hand-Made

Howl is a turn-based tactical game set in a folktale world where you battle feral beasts. Play involves planning a string of moves and attacks to outwit your enemies. It stands out for the unusual deaf hero and the welcoming forward-planning challenge.

Jagged Alliance 3

Release Date: 14/07/2023, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Weather

Jagged Alliance 3 is a strategy battle game where you lead a squad of mercenaries tasked with finding the President and bringing order back to the country. Play involves recruiting a team of heroes to take on tactical turn-based combat. It stands out...

Pit People

Release Date: 02/03/2018

Out Now: PC and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid

Pit People is a tactical strategy game where you herd a menagerie of medieval soldiers to take on all manner of strange foes. Play is about moving your characters tactically so they can maximise their attacks while staying out of range of counters.

37 Younger Content Rating than XCOM

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Luckitown

Pawnbarian

Transformers: Battlegrounds

Slay the Spire

Spaceland

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

The Lamplighters League

Pit People

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes

Fire Emblem Engage

Wandering Sword

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

Moonbreaker

Live A Live

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Triangle Strategy

FTL: Faster Than Light

Into The Breach

Midnight Protocol

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

For The King

Disintegration

Age of Empires IV

Sid Meier's Civilization

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Really Bad Chess

The Last Friend

Wargroove

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes

Luckitown

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope

Inkulinati

Transformers: Battlegrounds

Pikmin 2

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Marvel's Midnight Suns

Live A Live

Triangle Strategy

Into The Breach

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

Pikmin

FTL: Faster Than Light

Sid Meier's Civilization

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8 Video Games With a Similar Theme to XCOM

Here are a selection of games with a similar theme to XCOM:

Carrion

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed

Aliens: Fireteam Elite

3 Board Game Alternatives to XCOM

These are our hand-picked alternatives to XCOM. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.

Deep Sea Adventure

Pandemic

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16 Video Games Like XCOM Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to XCOM. This includes games from the Fighting, Action, Strategy, Shooting, Simulation, Role-Play, Adventure and Battle genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall

Moonbreaker

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