UFO: Afterlight
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews▼
- 66% of 540
- Critics
- 71 players 5 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 73% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 34.6h
- To 100%
- 60.5h 1.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.69 November 2014
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 49% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 16% of its genre
Price and player charts
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 31, 05:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 89 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Xenonauts ($24.99, scores 74) outscores it, and so does Original War ($9.99, scores 91). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about UFO: Afterlight
Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Also works on Linux if you manage to put it in windowed mode. Don't know the reason but it does not work in full screen yet. Same for the other games in this series
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a classic game, with solid base building, story, and character development. It doesn't take the "disposable soldiers" approach that other x-com style games take, and encourages you to play the way most folks used to save scum to play x com.
A disgusting piece of code that punishes for playing it well. For correct walkthrough, it's must to play with an open Wiki for knowing where not to go ahead of time - despite the fact that skills of playing of this game are allow it. Or try to go through it like in the first time - without understanding how everything works here. Worst game in whole trilogy. But, at least, it's big finale happened in the best part ...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The story is situated on Mars. It starts where UFO: Aftermath left off and runs simultaneously with UFO: Aftershock. While the Laputans on Earth are fighting Wargots and Starghosts and finding out what caused the destruction of their home planet, a small colony on Mars is trying to survive and flourish.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, nVidia GeForce 5700 or ATI Radeon 9500 *, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
UFO: Afterlight scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/237950/ufo-afterlightReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.