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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.

UFO: Afterlight is a strategy, tactical and sci-fi game developed by Altar Games and published by Bohemia Interactive.
Released on January 06th 2014 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Russian.

It has received 514 reviews of which 334 were positive and 180 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. šŸ˜

The game is currently priced at 5.99ā‚¬ on Steam.


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  • OS *: Windows XP or newer
  • Processor: Intel PentiumĀ® III or AMDĀ® Athlon - 1GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidiaĀ® GeForceā„¢ 5700 or ATI RadeonĀ® 9500 *
  • Storage: 2550 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: *Intel integrated cards are not supported at this time. We are looking into a fix.

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March 2025
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.
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March 2025
Bit janky but stil a lot of fun.
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Feb. 2025
Torture of the worst kind from beginning to end.
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Aug. 2024
Its very deep. But you can not afford to lose a single soldier as you can not replace them
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May 2024
If you're craving for more X-Com -like gameplay, this might be a good candidate. +The save game system is quite smart, you select a 'profile' from the main menu, and each one has its separate saves. This reduces clutter a lot. +Decent variety of weapons +Only 1 base to manage, reduces micromanaging -It's not always possible to determine which techs give you an immediate advantage (unless you read the wikia page and guides) -No way to mute annoying characters. A much older game, Jagged Alliance 2, even got this right. -Path-finding and auto formation will result in units clumping together, manual micromanagement is often necessary. Gets especially bad with the heavy suits. -Somewhat repetitive missions, especially towards the late game. Variety of enemies and random spawn locations of enemies helps somewhat. Feels like this would have been sooo much better if the developer had polished some aspects of the game, but still can be enjoyable. Buy it when it's on sale!
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UFO: Afterlight
6.3
334
180
Online players
5
Developer
Altar Games
Publisher
Bohemia Interactive
Release 06 Jan 2014
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