UFO: Aftermath
UFO: Aftermath
Game
Game2014
UFO: Aftershock
Developer ALTAR Interactive
UFO: Aftershock is a real-time tactics/strategy video game developed by Altar Interactive and released by Cenega Publishing in Europe and Tri Synergy in North America in 2005. It is a squad combat game at its core with overlying strategic elements inspired by the 1994 classic UFO: Enemy Unknown, though less than its own 2004 predecessor, UFO: Aftermath. It was followed by UFO: Afterlight in 2007. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
296 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 6, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
69
Fresh
61 positive · 28 negative
95% range 58–77%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 40 | 4 | 160 |
| Steam reviews | 61 | 28 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
75 of 105 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
69% recommend · 62 yes, 28 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 90 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (198 of 263 positive).
Many reviewers note that the game suffers from bugs and a repetitive endgame that drags on too long. [1][2][3] Some players recommend applying a fan patch to fix game-breaking issues and improve widescreen support. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [2]
This is, by no means, a bad entry in the UFO saga. but it's one I cannot recommend. It's a pretty solid game, with plenty of emergent storylines that will make you love the game, like the old UFO games. The fact that's in real time shouldn't matter, because you can always pause the game to give your orders. There's also an implemented class system, to customize your squad, and, while the "base building" part is less …
- [13]
UFO Aftermath, the prequel to this game, is a good tactical game: fast paced, great ambiance, and with a good sense of progression. Aftershock is built upon the gameplay of its prequel and is pushing further by introducing economy, friendly fire and even a diplomatic system. However, the game's progression is awful. The first hours are very difficult, and that's nice. Then you'll reach a phase where you have pretty …
- [7]
(Youtube link the bottom of review) UFO Aftershock is the second of the three and in my opion the best of them. Aftershock follows on after the first, the Biomass has taken over and colonies of mutants are appearing, both friendly and unfriendly. Aftershock follows more of a story line with side missions of helping other fractions for rewards such as territory and favour. The weaponry is far larger than Aftermath, …
- [1]
Just picked this up on Steam recently but played this game several times years ago. Forgot how long it was. Far too long. Should have ended after the mothership is destroyed. Once your team is geared up, it's ez mode and you just fight the same stuff over and over on the same maps. Of the 3 games in the UFO series, this is the worst of them. Not that the game is bad, it just goes on for way too long.(Edit) Held the …
- [19]
A deeply flawed but incredibly inventive squad based strategy game in the vein of XCOM. Don't think this is just a eastern european XCOM knockoff though; more than any other game based on the original UFO Defense series, UFO: Aftershock tries to do something really, truly different. Almost every aspect of the game you would expect to find in an XCOM-esque game is present, but each has been taken to the next level. …
Summarised from 34 of the 209 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked UFO: Aftershock talk about deep tactical gameplay with customizable soldiers and weapons; those who didn't talk about numerous bugs, some game-breaking without fan patches. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received mixed critical reviews upon release. It is notoriously buggy even after several released patches.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 296 · most liked firstGame of the year: UFO 50 Album of the year: The Jesus Lizard - Rack Movie of the year: Furiosa Book of the year: I can’t read
neutral · AI labelView post →Why would you pay $80 for GTA VI and get one game when you could buy UFO 50 for $25 and get fifty games
neutral · AI labelView post →Indiana opened as a touchdown favorite in the national title game. At some point typing facts about the 2025 Hoosiers will stop feeling like I'm telling you I just saw a UFO
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 won a New York Game Award tonight for Best Indie Game! Extremely cool - thank you so much! 🍒 Proud of our dev team and feeling lucky to be part of it: @perryjon.bsky.social @strotchy.bsky.social @phubans.bsky.social (📸 credit) @fourbitfriday.bsky.social ...and Ojiro Fumoto!
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50, our collection of 50 games in one, is on sale for the #SteamSummerSale! A game for every mood (or at least fifty of them). Includes local multiplayer and ✅Verified on Deck! 🛸: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 is great to play when a game you want to play is coming out soon, and you can’t commit yourself to another big, lengthy game. Perfect waiting-for-another-game game.
positive · AI labelView post →UFO 50 is coming to Nintendo Switch in two physical editions, along with a recently unearthed 100+ page UFO Companion guidebook! Preorder now: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →New on the Ponett Gazette: To coincide with its recent Switch port, I've finally finished my ginormous piece on UFO 50, my favorite game of 2024! Come learn about my 14 favorite games in the anthology and how some of them have forever changed how I engage with retro games ponett.dog/blog/my-14-f...
neutral · AI labelView post →The UFO 50 Art Collab!! To celebrate the first anniversary of a game that means a lot to me (and many others), we brought together artists from the UFO 50 Discord to create this grand collage! #art #artcollab #ufo50 #ufo50artcollab v More of the collab in the replies below v
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Awards really just ought to be which UFO 50 game is best.
neutral · AI labelView post →someone made a UFO 50 picross fan game and it's fantastic m3zik.itch.io/lx-nonograms
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 is an astonishing accomplishment — a pack of fifty full-fledged games that may make you nostalgic for a 1980s video game console that never actually existed. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, all the other winners are just so boring. God of War Ragnarok is the best game on SteamDeck? Elden Ring --a 2022 game-- the best Labour of Love? In a year when UFO 50 and Caves of Qud released? Shenanigans, I say.
positive · AI labelView post →Game of the Year is Magic Garden specifically from UFO 50
positive · AI labelView post →some more pixelart inspired in that deep divers game from UFO 50 but with desert
neutral · AI labelView post →playing a game with a tutorial after UFO 50 is like, oh i see, you think i hate the thrill of discovery. you want to save me from the joy of wonder
positive · AI labelView post →( NSFW ) ( Part Time UFO ) Ankh This game is fun, please play it ( 1 / 3 )
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 IS ON SWITCH NOW YEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! It was my GOTY 2024! An absolute outstanding achievement in game design. It's my most played game on Steam by a mile!
positive · AI labelView post →I’m UFO 50 pilled. Warptank game of the year
positive · AI labelView post →here's a specific one that gambler lady from that party house game that's in UFO 50 I think she's REALLY hot :>
neutral · AI labelView post →The Indie Game Awards - Game of the Year Nominees (by Metascore): UFO 50 [91] Animal Well [91] Balatro [90] Lorelei and the Laser Eyes [88] ARCO [86] Neva [86] 1000xRESIST [85] Mouthwashing [83] Nine Sols [83] Crypt Custodian [82] All 2024 Games: www.metacritic.com/browse/game/...
neutral · AI labelView post →The first UFO 50 game I finished was Divers! #RiverArt
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm making a tiny open world game where you play as a lil' UFO exploring the Earth and getting up to shenanigans in order to write a travel guide store.steampowered.com/app/3314190/...
neutral · AI labelView post →the clerk at the game store may have given me some weird looks when I bought an HDMI to AV converter but now I have UFO 50 on my CRT
positive · AI labelView post →#IGNAwards nominees for Best PC Game of 2024: Animal Well Balatro Satisfactory The Rise of the Golden Idol UFO 50 1000xRESIST Full nominees: bit.ly/3ZLTKky
neutral · AI labelView post →Today’s Video Game Plush of the Day is: Kapu Kapu from the 2000 UFO Sega Collection by SEGAPrize
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW GAME. YOU'RE ALIEN NOW 👽 Control a UFO, abduct animals, and find knickknacks
neutral · AI labelView post →Been in a bit of a video game funk and UFO 50 might be saving me
positive · AI labelView post →Fellow Workers! We are proud to announce the demo for our newest game, 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦! Now available on Steam! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #uap #UFO #arcade
neutral · AI labelView post →time to play PART TIME UFO on @prozdplaysgames.bsky.social with special guest @mewd.bsky.social, i was immediately OBSESSED with this game, it's SO GOOD www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUQ...
positive · AI labelView post →On the game review front, my favorite game of the year was probably UFO 50, and I tried to capture why in this nostalgia-heavy piece arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a part of my game designer heart I didn't know had died, but playing UFO 50 rekindled it.
positive · AI labelView post →This is, by no means, a bad entry in the UFO saga. but it's one I cannot recommend. It's a pretty solid game, with plenty of emergent storylines that will make you love the game, like the old UFO games. The fact that's in real time shouldn't matter, because you can always pause the game to give your orders. There's also an implemented class system, to customize your squad, and, while the "base building" part is less than optimal, it's still decent, even if it's decentralized. So, with that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, UFO 50 won the NYVGA for best indie. And with Tales of Kenzera: ZAU and I Am Your Beast as fellow nominees, 3 games with Black game devs on the leadership were nominated. Good shit.
neutral · AI labelView post →(Youtube link the bottom of review) UFO Aftershock is the second of the three and in my opion the best of them. Aftershock follows on after the first, the Biomass has taken over and colonies of mutants are appearing, both friendly and unfriendly. Aftershock follows more of a story line with side missions of helping other fractions for rewards such as territory and favour. The weaponry is far larger than Aftermath, bringing in alien weapons to begin with, to then creating various human…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UFO 50 is the perfect game to have on your Switch. What a good day.
positive · AI labelView post →Been slowing making my way through UFO 50 and I can’t put down this little game, Camouflage! I must keep Lizard safe 🦎
positive · AI labelView post →Thinkin' about Tetris Forever, Terry's Other Games, and UFO 50 as chronicles of a game/developer's history (albeit a fictive history in UFO 50's case) in playable format.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shout out to @nsuttner.bsky.social and the Eggplant podcast for committing to a full year of covering every game in UFO 50. Great idea when the game launched, great idea today. 50 game club discussions. eggplant.show
neutral · AI labelView post →I can confirm that my announced solarpunk game was screened on a brutalist UFO in a remote park in Toronto. Thank you for adventuring into the night, game ravers!
neutral · AI labelView post →You know what, fine, maybe I WILL play that there UFO 50 game everyone keeps talking about then.
positive · AI labelView post →Beat a game tonight, and got a Gold on a UFO 50 game, not too shabby tonight. Thanks to everyone who tuned in, we're back Saturday for Cookie, see ya then! www.twitch.tv/protonjon/cl...
positive · AI labelView post →Sega cracked the code for zero-effort game anniversary commemorations: slapping labels on their UFO catcher candy, like so
neutral · AI labelView post →Get ready for the very first episode where No Small Games reviews not one game, but 50!! Winter Season kicks off this Thursday with our episode covering UFO 50 🛸
neutral · AI labelView post →"Well it's actually the best game this year!" please, I'm playing UFO 50 *right now*
positive · AI labelView post →Barbuta is my favorite game in UFO 50. Please don't cancel me.
positive · AI labelView post →Part-Time UFO art from when I first finished that game 🛸💫 #parttimeufo
positive · AI labelView post →You too can have this much fun if you download my new UFO journaling game! owllog.itch.io/echoes-above... #ufos #ufo #ttrpg #rpg #journaling #journalinggame
neutral · AI labelView post →Given how old it is this is a fun little nugget in the vein of old school XCOM, easily worth $5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UFO 50, a massive collection of new games, was the best game of 2024... and here are the 10 best games within UFO 50. www.pastemagazine.com/games/ufo-50...
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 makes me want to make my own freakin video game man
positive · AI labelView post →This week's Disk Cleanup is with Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros, who told me about his lifelong love of Myst, playing Big Walk as his first proximity voice chat game, and going ALL IN on UFO 50. Read on! www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 not getting indie game of the year, the fraud awardssssss
negative · AI labelView post →A little old but very nice. Took over, in spirit, where the original XCOM left off. I really like the customizable soldiers, weapons and armour. I really like the ability to alter and adapt soldier load out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I ignored UFO 50's first game, but then Barbuta pulled me back in Barbuta is slow, clunky, and completely impenetrable. And it's become my favorite UFO 50 game. www.rogue.site/editorials/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →Normal UFO 50 game: “Here’s a quirky driving sim inspired by time as a delivery driver!” UFO 50 game developed by Thorson Petter:
neutral · AI labelView post →UFO 50 seems kind of like an indie game dev's dream or nightmare. Hey, you know how you're always distracted by side projects? What if your game was nothing but side projects? Like UFO 50....
neutral · AI labelView post →My kid, watching NES game reviews with me: “Which UFO 50 game is this one?”
neutral · AI labelView post →what would be the best ttrpg to use if i want to run a game of clandestine UFO War
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