Browse Games like Other platforms How it works

/

Obscure

Ultimate Space Commando

81% positive of 48 Steam reviews

Released: 2015
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Platforms: Steam

Made by Creatio 49. Published by Angry Cat Studios.

About the game

USC is a turn-based, top-down view tactics game in which you control the crew of a stranded recon vessel in a "first contact war" for survival, featuring a detailed combat system with RPG elements, fully interactive randomized maps, unique weapons and gadgets, crafting, and custom multiplayer modes.

Tagged by players

RPG
Strategy
Turn-Based Tactics
Turn-Based

What players say

Games like this

See all games like this

Telepath Tactics

68% matchRPG, Strategy

Shock Tactics

64% matchStrategy, RPG

Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic)

61% matchTurn-Based Tactics, Strategy

Voidspire Tactics

57% matchRPG, Turn-Based Tactics

Galactic Keep

53% matchRPG, Strategy

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

54% matchTurn-Based Tactics, Strategy

89%13.3K reviews

Starlight Tactics™

47% matchStrategy, Similar premise

Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)

56% matchStrategy, Turn-Based Tactics

Origin Space

46% matchRPG

Strike Team Hydra

52% matchTurn-Based Tactics, Strategy

FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake

43% matchStrategy, RPG

77%753 reviewsDeck

X-Team

47% matchRPG, Strategy

Not affiliated with Valve. Steam is a trademark of Valve Corporation.Privacy Settings

Mostly Positive

What players say

Recommended
This is a tactical squad game in the mould of classics like Rebelstar (if you're old enough to remember that), Laser Squad and XCOM or, more recently, Halfway. It doesn't perhaps expand on them a great deal. You do the usual of equipping your squad with a range of weaponry and other equipment, finding upgrades, crafting materials and protoypes to get better weaponry, whilst gunning down aliens en masse on te…
29 h played when written. 23 found it helpful.
Read on Steam
Recommended
Demanding and full of tactical options! The top down view is clean and allows to make informed decisions, while the AP system provides actual freedom compared to the "move-shoot" standard of many other games. Don't expect to save the world though. The game is tough and unforgiving, x-com of old type of punishment, but it does it well. I had fun getting eaten by aliens, burnt by friendlies or even blown up by what…
3.8 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.
Read on Steam
Not recommended
Compared to USC counterforce, This lack QOL and other refinement of the sequel. However, if you find similar idea to this and your rig can not handle the beefy requirement of the sequel, pick this. Cheaper, fit for potato PC, and if you desperately want to play USC, go pick this. A word of warning though: override circuitry minigame can be quiet the PITA, which the sequel luckily remove, but I just plain rage…
46 min played when written. 1 found it helpful.
Read on Steam

All reviews on Steam