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A tactical auto-battler about commanding an alien purge from a remote control room, balancing time-pressured indirect orders and escalating waves in a short but repetitive campaign.

Gunlocked
A compact sci-fi roguelike that replaces twin-stick aiming with strategic positioning and upgrade-driven combat against alien fleets.
2022-12-06
- Shooter
- Action
- Indie

Role-playing (RPG)

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Aliens: Dark Descent

A lengthy single-player real-time tactical Alien game where you command a marine squad against Xenomorphs on Planet Lethe.

2023-06-19

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric

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Xenonauts 2

A tense single-player strategy game of leading an alien resistance through tactical battles, covert bases, and interceptor combat, with a median reviewer playtime of around 33 hours.

2026-04-02

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Void Marauders

A challenging single-player turn-based tactical game about space pirates raiding alien worlds, with an XCOM-style combat loop and roguelike restart progression.

2025-11-20

Science fiction
Strategy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Recon Control

A single-player indie tactics hybrid that puts a special ops squad through tense, deadly turn-based missions, with reviewer playtime suggesting around 29 hours.

2021-11-04

Warfare
Platform
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Swarm Grinder

A single-player action roguelite mech game against alien swarms and evolving cells, with skill-based builds and a survivors-style loop that reviewers found fun but thin after several hours.

2024-04-22

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Exogate Initiative

A sci-fi management simulation about building an underground base, recruiting specialists, and exploring alien worlds via a gate, with moderate pacing but potential technical issues.

2025-01-28

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator

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Buggos

A casual single-player RTS auto battler where you lead a bug swarm, customize 120+ evolutions, and assault human bases in a simple, addictive, chaotic campaign of roughly 8-10 hours.

2022-03-17

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Xeno Crisis

A demanding arena shooter with run-and-gun combat and local co-op, offering a short but intense alien-blasting campaign.

2019-10-28

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Bird view / Isometric
Arcade

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Space Crew: Legendary Edition

A real-time space crew management game about defending Earth from alien and android armies, with permadeath and a short campaign, hampered by clunky controls.

2020-10-15

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Rebel Cops

A tense, turn-based tactical game about leading a desperate, under-supplied police rebellion against a criminal takeover.

2019-09-17

Adventure
Strategy
Tactical
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion – Turn-Based Strategy

A compact ~3.5-hour turn-based strategy game with class-based SOF units, alien-invasion investigation, and decision-driven narrative; reception is Mostly Positive but some players report bugs.

2025-07-17

Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)