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UFO: Afterlight cover art

UFO: Afterlight

Altar Games · Bohemia Interactive · 2014-01-06

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

5
playing now
66%
positive of 537 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.39
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

UFO: Afterlight is a 2007 real-time tactics/turn-based strategy video game and the third in Altar Games' UFO series. Like its predecessors UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock, it combines squad-level tactical combat with overlying strategic elements inspired by the 1994 classic UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 537 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.39-80%
Steam$1.39-80%
GOG$1.39-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.39-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2014-11-21) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 48 of 72 observed days · $0.70 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.742015-03-07 — best price $5.412015-05-07 — best price $1.392015-07-08 — best price $6.162015-10-23 — best price $1.392016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-04-23 — best price $1.402016-08-01 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-11-22 — best price $1.392018-04-25 — best price $1.402018-11-28 — best price $6.992019-07-10 — best price $6.992019-11-11 — best price $1.392020-07-17 — best price $6.992021-01-04 — best price $6.992021-11-22 — best price $6.992022-04-04 — best price $6.992022-10-09 — best price $1.392022-12-22 — best price $1.392023-03-04 — best price $6.992023-08-08 — best price $6.992023-12-21 — best price $1.392024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-07-31 — best price $6.992024-11-11 — best price $1.392025-01-27 — best price $6.992025-05-09 — best price $6.992025-07-26 — best price $1.392025-09-29 — best price $1.392025-12-11 — best price $6.992026-03-03 — best price $1.392026-05-12 — best price $1.392026-07-27 — best price $6.992026-08-25 — best price $1.392026-08-30 — best price $1.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2152026-05-31 — 11 pageviews2026-06-03 — 12 pageviews2026-06-06 — 11 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-12 — 12 pageviews2026-06-15 — 12 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-24 — 7 pageviews2026-06-27 — 14 pageviews2026-06-30 — 14 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 11 pageviews2026-07-09 — 10 pageviews2026-07-12 — 9 pageviews2026-07-15 — 17 pageviews2026-07-18 — 19 pageviews2026-07-21 — 7 pageviews2026-07-24 — 9 pageviews2026-07-27 — 19 pageviews2026-07-30 — 9 pageviews2026-08-02 — 15 pageviews2026-08-05 — 13 pageviews2026-08-08 — 13 pageviews2026-08-11 — 12 pageviews2026-08-14 — 12 pageviews2026-08-17 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 12 pageviews2026-08-23 — 17 pageviews2026-08-26 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 18 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerCaptions availableFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Polish

Player tags

RPGMarsIndieAliensSci-fiViolentStrategyTacticalTurn-BasedSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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