Games Like Strain Tactics

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Top-Down 18.8%, Aliens 16.1%, Action 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!

Why similar: Zombies 21.1%, Strategy 19%, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Top-Down 11.3%

Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 27.6%, Strategy 18.4%, Aliens 14.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Top-Down 8%

Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.

Why similar: Strategy 35.4%, Sci-fi 23.2%, RPG 16%, Action 15.1%, Adventure 7.4%

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Strategy 20.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Action 9.3%, Top-Down 8.5%

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.

Why similar: Aliens 41.8%, Strategy 29.5%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Indie 7.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 51.7%, Aliens 24.5%, Strategy 22%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Sequel to the best-seller ​The Red Solstice​. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 25.5%, Zombies 21.9%, Aliens 16.5%, Top-Down Shooter 11.4%, Strategy 10.8%

Beat the Humans is the turn-based tactical strategy game. Here you lead an army of aliens against invaders from the human race. Collect your squad, protect planets, strengthen your army with equipment and look for allies if you want to survive and win.

Why similar: Strategy 45.7%, RPG 20%, Action 16.7%, Action RPG 13.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Real-time combat in the zombie apocalypse! Guide your survivors through hordes of the infected to escape the epicentre of infection!

Why similar: Strategy 44.1%, Indie 43.2%, Sci-fi 12.6%

2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 25.5%, Aliens 19.4%, Zombies 16.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Top-Down 10.9%

Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Why similar: Zombies 25%, Gore 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Strategy 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 9.9%

Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion - a turn-based strategy where you command SOF forces against an alien threat. Investigate disappearances, fight the invaders, and uncover the mystery. Every decision affects the fate of humanity.

Why similar: Strategy 48.2%, Aliens 43.2%, Indie 4%, RPG 2.5%, Adventure 1.3%

Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!

Why similar: Strategy 47.2%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Action 12.1%, Aliens 10.6%, Indie 8.7%

A deadly new breed of human monster is on the rise, and it’s up to players to stop the infestation before it spreads. Breach & Clear: DEADline Rebirth is a new and greatly improved version of B&C: Deadline, the follow-up to Breach & Clear, the critically acclaimed hybrid tactical strategy game.

Why similar: Zombies 36.6%, Real Time Tactics 24.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Action 7.8%, RPG 5.9%

Dustwind: Resistance is a single-player tactical game. Lead your squad—including your dog—against a brutal raider army. Pause to plan tactics. Use overwhelming firepower, stealth, traps, turrets, or an armored car to outmaneuver enemies. Protect your home and freedom. No surrender!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 35.8%, Strategy 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Action 10.4%, RPG 8.6%

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 25.8%, Zombies 23%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Top-Down 9.7%

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: Strategy 49.1%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Aliens 14.1%, Gore 9.2%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%

Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.

Why similar: Strategy 74.7%, RPG 25.3%

10-4 Indirect Contact is a RTT game. Player who acts as a commander , commands the girl operators to complete missions,like exterminating enemies,liberating hostages and dismantling installations,etc.

Why similar: Gore 42.5%, Violent 24.8%, Strategy 24.1%, Indie 8.6%

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 41.9%, Strategy 22.5%, Gore 9.7%, Action 6.3%, Indie 5.9%

HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.

Why similar: Zombies 44.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Strategy 19.6%, Indie 4.7%, Action 2.4%

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 32.3%, Zombies 26.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Top-Down 11.3%, Sandbox 7.5%

Experience the brutality and randomness of war as an Allied tactical commander in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Train, equip, and command a squad of soldiers as you fight against the fanatical Imperial Japanese Empire.

Why similar: Strategy 26.1%, Violent 20.2%, Gore 19.2%, Top-Down 13.1%, Action 12.6%

Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.

Why similar: Aliens 40.5%, Strategy 26.5%, Sci-fi 19.7%, RPG 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 18.4%, Gore 16.8%, Top-Down Shooter 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Strategy 10.4%

Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!

Why similar: Strategy 80.4%, Action 4.1%, Sandbox 4%, Sci-fi 3.6%, Gore 3.4%

Experience non-stop, real-time tactical combat with a 4-person squad. Upgrade and recruit units, enhance special abilities, while acquiring better weapons and gear. Take your toughest recruits into action in single player or co-op multiplayer and save humanity from the suppressive Manta force.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 42.8%, Strategy 25.5%, Action 13.3%, Cyberpunk 10.2%, Indie 8.2%

Tactical Combat Department is a tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by Swat games. You command a special intervention squad that intervenes in various situations and environments.

Why similar: Gore 28.7%, Top-Down Shooter 25%, Violent 15.8%, Strategy 15.4%, RPG 8.4%

Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.

Why similar: Zombies 27%, Gore 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Violent 7.5%

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Why similar: Strategy 30.4%, Real Time Tactics 20.9%, Top-Down 20.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Action 8.8%

Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.

Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, Top-Down 31.6%, RPG 14.7%, Action RPG 14.7%, Singleplayer 5.6%

Enter the real time tactical nightmare of Nordic Warriors and use your handful of brave souls to stem an endless horde of undead horrors. You'll need to take advantage of the terrain and your Hero abilities to heal and lead your units as you blast, smash or slash your way through the unfolding apocalypse.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 33.4%, Gore 18.2%, Strategy 14.6%, Top-Down 12.1%, Violent 9.1%

Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 48.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Strategy 21%, RPG 9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.

Why similar: Strategy 77.2%, RPG 12.7%, Indie 10.1%

Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.

Why similar: Strategy 33.8%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Action 16.4%, RPG 15.2%, Adventure 7.6%

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 32.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Top-Down 12.2%, Action 9.5%, Strategy 8.4%

A Real-Time Strategy game with First-Person Shooter tactics.

Why similar: Strategy 58.6%, Action 26.3%, Indie 15%

In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety. Rescue, train and manage your squad for the upcoming war of survival.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 41.3%, Strategy 23%, Action 11.6%, RPG 9.7%, Indie 7.9%

Mud and Blood, the cult classic flash real time strategy game, returns with its signature take on infantry tactics. Command a small squad through brutal battles against unfair odds. This is combat. Experience the chaos and unceremonious violence of modern war, where every decision counts.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 35.2%, Gore 16.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Top-Down 13.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Blasted Road Terror is real-time tactical looter in post apocalyptic setting. Command mighty warcrawler and manage squadron of vehicles in order to get unseen riches of the world and reach immortal glory.

Why similar: Strategy 44.3%, Action 24.1%, RPG 17.3%, Indie 14.3%

Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads . Good luck Commander!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 42.2%, Top-Down 18.4%, Strategy 17.7%, Action 9.4%, Indie 5.6%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 35.8%, Indie 17%, Action 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 12%, RPG 9.7%

An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.

Why similar: Aliens 34.2%, Strategy 25.6%, Sci-fi 17.2%, RPG 11.5%, Action 9.4%

End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.

Why similar: Strategy 36%, Violent 23.1%, Action 17.8%, RPG 12.9%, Indie 8.7%

Lead your Space Commandos in a revival of turn-based squad tactics inspired by UFO/XCOM and Aliens. Utilize in-depth skill & combat systems in multiple game modes, including a full campaign. Discover the truth behind the demise of colony MC83-A and join the USC in defending humanity!

Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, Top-Down 29.6%, Sci-fi 22.5%, RPG 13.7%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...

Why similar: Strategy 65.7%, Action 15.1%, RPG 8.5%, Top-Down 5.7%, Indie 2.8%

Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Why similar: Zombies 31.4%, Gore 28.8%, Strategy 24.7%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Indie 5.7%

Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 28.3%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Top-Down 13.2%, Gore 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Sci-fi 34.1%, Adventure 8.7%, Singleplayer 3%

Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.

Why similar: Strategy 52%, Gore 28.3%, Violent 11%, Sci-fi 4.3%, RPG 3.5%

Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 38.5%, Aliens 17.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Top-Down 13.4%, Sci-fi 8.4%

Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.

Why similar: Zombies 38.9%, Post-apocalyptic 28.4%, Strategy 21.5%, RPG 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Based on the inhospitable frontier world of Mars, against the backdrop of a bacterial outbreak, Deadstone offers a compelling blend of frantic combat and tower defense, backed by a highly nuanced character development system and strategic elements of resource management.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.5%, Zombies 18.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Violent 12.6%, Action 11.7%

Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.7%, Strategy 23.5%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Sci-fi 15.6%, RPG 10.5%

Battle massive hordes of alien monsters to secure humanity's presence on planet Gore. Upgrade your base, hire troops, and install turrets to fight back the ever growing waves of aliens.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.3%, Gore 15%, Aliens 14%, Top-Down 12.9%, Action 10.1%

Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy. Play solo or team up through online co-op and matchmaking, coordinating movement, positioning, and split-second decisions to survive intense, high-risk missions.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 49.4%, Top-Down Shooter 37.3%, Action 5.2%, Violent 4.1%, Top-Down 3.2%

Gray Zone is best described as Men of War meets Commandos in a futuristic coat. It's an odyssey of a slave who turned against his masters. Use stealth or direct combat in a squad-based encounters. Expect memorable characters, fun dialogues and lots of action!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 34.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Top-Down 11.9%, Action 8.5%