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Games like Alien (Avalon Hill)

1982 · Avalon Hill · Turn-based strategy · Open the game page

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245 games like Alien (Avalon Hill) · 1978 – 2023

  • PlayStation exclusive

    dazz · PS2

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionBird view / Isometric

    Robot Warlords is a Sci-fi turn based strategy game that was released on the PS2 back on December 14th 2001. It didn't get very good reviews, or sales and, hence, is very very rare.

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  • Epyx · Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +2

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionBird view / IsometricTextScience

    You fight the Klaatu in this turn-based straretgy game.

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  • Epyx · Commodore PET, Apple II, TRS-80 +1

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionBird view / IsometricTextScience

    Turn-based space strategy wargame.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Cooking Mama Limited · Nintendo DS

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedScience fictionActionDinosaurs

    Dino Master is a game for the Nintendo DS system similar to a fusion of Pokémon and the arcade game Qix. The player takes the role of "Dave the Digger", who excavates fossils from various sites while avoiding enemies. The fossils can then b

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Irem · PlayStation Portable

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionScienceTacticalSide view

    R-Type Tactics II is a turn-based strategy game/tactical role-playing game released in 2009 in Japan for the PlayStation Portable game console. It is the sequel to 2007's R-Type Tactics, known as R-Type Command in North America. The main p

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  • Turn-based strategyScience fictionBird view / Isometric4XScience

    Galactic Civilizations II (GalCiv II) is a 4X Grand strategy game set in the 23rd century, when multiple alien civilizations scramble to conquer the galaxy, planet by planet, by force, diplomacy, influence (culture), or technology. GalCiv I

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  • Nigel Taylor · Atari 8-bit, ZX Spectrum

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionBird view / IsometricTextAdventure

    The War of the Worlds is a 1-player strategy war game for the Atari 8-bit. Based on the H.G. Wells novel, you control infantry, cavalry, and artillery units in combat against an alien invasion. Played on a terrain map, your troops can move

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  • Microcomputer Games, Inc. · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET +5

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricTextStrategyHistorical

    The Dnieper River Line is a fictionalized engagement between German and Russian forces in the Southern Ukraine in late 1943. As the Germans you are challenged to repel Russian efforts to breach your critical defensive position. The Soviet u

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  • Datamost, Inc. · Apple II

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionTextStrategy4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

    A strategy game written by Walter Hochbrueckner and published by Datamost for the Apple II.

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedStrategyWarfareThird person

    Players assume the role of GDF Commander and control GDF units in turn-based missions against the giant bug menace. Missions take place on 2D hex-maps, with attacks depicted by brief animated cutscenes.

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  • Commodore C64/128/MAX, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +1

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionTextScienceWarfare

    You have to defeat the Berserkers, automated war machines programmed to kill all life they encounter.

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  • Artic Software · Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1

    Science fictionTextAdventure

    You are marooned on a strange planet and have to repair your space ship in order to get back home.

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  • Atari exclusive

    Atari · Atari 2600

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionTextAdventureShooter

    Stellar Track is a text- and turn-based strategy game where the player controls a Terran Super Warship that must clear out alien ships from all quadrants of a galaxy. It was a conversion of a college mainframe Star Trek game released by Sea

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  • Rocket Science Games · Atari 8-bit, Arcade, ZX Spectrum

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionBird view / IsometricSurvivalEducational

    To reach an abandoned research station far away is your only chance of survival after you have crash landed on an alien world.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Aretha

    1993

    Japan Art Media · SNES, Game Boy

    Turn-basedBird view / IsometricRole-playingFantasy

    The game is a console-style RPG, where Ariel and her party travel on the world map, through forests, mountain paths, and caves, occasionally visiting towns and fighting monsters in turn-based combat viewed from first-person perspective, usi

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Japan Art Media · SNES

    Turn-basedBird view / IsometricRole-playingFantasy

    The game is a console-style RPG - you fight random enemies in turn-based combat viewed from first-person perspective. Enemies may attack you from the sides, and you should pay attention which enemy you face. A unique feature the game uses i

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  • Data Design Systems, Stewart Green · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum +1

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricHistoricalWarfare

    Pegasus Bridge is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services. It was released exclusively in the United Kingdom for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 in 1987. The game is set during th

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Mindcraft · Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MS-DOS +1

    Turn-basedBird view / IsometricRole-playingFantasy

    The Magic Candle is best described as an Ultima clone. Its a top-down party-driven RPG. The plot revolves around you (Lukas) and your party of intrepid adventurers, whose task it is to seal the demon Dreax within the Magic Candle (which is

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  • Paradox France · macOS, Windows

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricGrand strategyHistoricalWarfare

    AGEOD's American Civil War: 1861-1865 - The Blue and the Gray is a historical operational turn-based strategy video game that places players at the head of the United States or Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861–1865). P

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  • Carnell Software Ltd · Sinclair ZX81, Texas Instruments TI-99, ZX Spectrum +2

    Bird view / IsometricTextAdventureActionFantasy

    You have to defeat the Lords of Chaos in this action adventure.

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  • Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore 64

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedBird view / IsometricPuzzleStrategy

    Godzilla is a strategy game in which you must command the military in an attempt to kill Godzilla before he destroys Tokyo. If Godzilla reaches Tokyo, the game is over. The game is a large grid on the map of Japan and nearby waters. There a

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  • Switch, PS4, PS5 +1

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedBird view / IsometricAdventureIndie

    In Stars and Time is a time-looping RPG adventure. With each loop, Siffrin gains a new perspective on the world around them, opening up new solutions to puzzles and allowing them to make better choices in conversation. Equip memories as arm

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Big Blue Bubble · Nintendo DS

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedStrategyTactical turn-based combat

    The year is 435 Tz, and every faction in the Land is at war, and if it continues there won't be much Land left to fight over. The strain on the world's magical energy is literally tearing the Land apart. The Land's fate lies in your hands.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Monolith Soft · Nintendo 3DS

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedScience fictionBird view / IsometricRole-playing

    In the sequel to the original world crossing adventure, legendary characters from Japan's most prolific video game publishers come together to create the biggest mashup strategy game ever! Developed by MONOLITH SOFTWARE INC., Project X Zone

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Genius Sonority · Nintendo DS

    TextEducational

    100 Classic Book Collection turns your Nintendo DS into a portable library containing must-read novels from iconic authors such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and many more. From Sense and Sensibility to Treasure Isla

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  • Elite Systems · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE +3

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedBird view / IsometricQuizSimulation

    A computerised version of the old pencil and paper game combining simple strategy with sheer guess-work.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    TextEducational

    Dr Kawashima brings his popular brain exercise software to Nintendo DSi, with fun, new features and the return of many Brain Training favourites!

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  • Personal Software Services · Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum

    Turn-based strategy

    Iwo Jima is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1986. The game is set during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II and

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  • Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +4

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricStrategyFantasyHistorical

    The game is based on the board game Borderlands by Eon Productions (best known for their highly acclaimed board game, Cosmic Encounter), and was marketed with the slogan "Better than Risk!" to identify it as a global conquest game similar t

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  • Android, iOS, Windows

    Turn-based strategyIndieSimulationStrategy

    MULE is a ridiculously fun and addictive strategy game that combines real-time and turn-based styles as you battle for land and resources on a newly colonized planet. The game is easy to grasp but provides great depth of game-play.

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  • Proxy Studios · Linux, macOS, Windows

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedScience fiction4XSimulation

    The ancient Messari return to Pandora with all their might, deploying portals and terrifying ion storms. From these portals come forces never before seen by mankind, and an infestation spreads across Pandora. The strongest factions are the

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  • Delta Tao Software · macOS, MS-DOS, Windows +3

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedScience fictionBird view / IsometricText

    Spaceward Ho! is a turn-based science fiction computer strategy game that was written by Peter Commons, designed by Joe Williams (Joedelta) and published by Delta Tao Software. The first version was released in 1990, and further upgrades fo

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Axes Art Amuse · SNES

    Turn-based strategyWarfare

    In Stealth, the player takes control of a squad of six U.S. Army soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Gameplay is turn-based on a platoon's level, each squad member has the option to move, attack, wait, and in the case of the radio o

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  • Strategic Simulations, Inc. · Amiga, Atari ST/STE, MS-DOS +1

    Turn-based strategyScience fictionText4XStrategy

    Stellar Crusade is a two player game of exploitation and conquest on an interstellar scale. Two rival factions, The League and The People's Holy Republic, compete over a span of decades for control of a small, but richly endowed, star clust

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  • Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricStrategyHistoricalWarfare

    The Operational Art of War (TOAW) is a series of computer wargames noted for their scope, detail, and flexibility in recreating, at an operational level, the major land battles of the 20th century. A Norm Koger design, TalonSoft published t

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  • Strategic Studies Group · Windows

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricStrategyFantasy

    Warlords III: Reign of Heroes is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy universe. The Selentine Empire has been overrun by undead and a number of warlords are fighting to determine who will control what remains of the world. Players m

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  • Strategic Simulations · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +4

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricRole-playingFantasy

    Wizard's Crown is a party-based fantasy role-playing game in the vein of Wizardry and Bard's Tale that was incredibly detailed for its time.

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  • Ubisoft Blue Byte · MS-DOS, Windows

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedScience fictionBird view / IsometricStrategy

    Battle Isle 2200 is the second title in Blue Byte's Battle Isle series. After a long space flight, the player arrives on the planet of Chromos and must save the planet's civilization from the Titan-net Empire. Titan-net, the computer overfi

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Turn-based strategy

    Daikaiju Deburasu is a 1990 strategy video game for the Family Computer. The game involves has a kaiju-movie theme, where the player assists the military in guiding a giant egg through a large city and then protecting it from a huge monster

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Genki · PlayStation Portable

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricStrategyHistoricalWarfare

    Daisenryaku Portable is a military turn-based strategy game for the PlayStation Portable published by Genki. The game takes place on a battlefield of hexagons, upon which the player assembles an army. The aim is to capture cities and facto

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Success · Nintendo DS

    Turn-based strategyBird view / IsometricStrategy

    Transported to an alien world, you find yourself in the middle of a great conflict. An army of evil Drones is on the march, threatening to obliterate the land of Cimexus. Its inhabitants now turn to you to lead them in battle against the Bl

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  • Hex

    1985

    Mark of the Unicorn · Atari ST

    Turn-based strategy

    Hex is a turn-based strategy game developed by Mark of the Unicorn and published in 1985 for the then-new Atari ST and later for the Amiga. The player controls a unicorn that is trying to turn all the hexes on the game board to the same col

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  • Wargaming · Windows, macOS

    Turn-based strategyTurn-basedScience fictionBird view / IsometricStrategy

    Take the command of Free Nations Union forces and defeat the Phantom League on one of six distant planets. The rebels decided to seize the power on Earth by first conquering the space colonies, which provide vital energy resources to AOG. T

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