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UFO: Aftershock

ALTAR Interactive · Fulqrum Publishing · 2014-04-16

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 21, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

UFO: Aftershock is a combination of tactical squad combat and global strategy that enhances and expands upon its prequel, UFO: Aftermath.

UFO: Aftershock is a Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $3.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 263 reviews).

4
playing now
75%
positive of 263 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$3.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

UFO: Aftershock is a real-time tactics/strategy video game developed by Altar Interactive and released by Cenega Publishing in Europe and Tri Synergy in North America in 2005. It is a squad combat game at its core with overlying strategic elements inspired by the 1994 classic UFO: Enemy Unknown, though less than its own 2004 predecessor, UFO: Aftermath. It was followed by UFO: Afterlight in 2007.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 14,104 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.6k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 263 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.79-80%
Humble Store$0.79-80%
GOG$0.79-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Fanatical (2023-12-11) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 157 of 199 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620152026Week of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 7 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
302Apr 2014Aug 2026Apr 2014 — avg 30 · peak 69Aug 2014 — avg 6 · peak 20Dec 2014 — avg 7 · peak 25Apr 2015 — avg 5 · peak 17Aug 2015 — avg 6 · peak 18Dec 2015 — avg 6 · peak 25Apr 2016 — avg 5 · peak 15Aug 2016 — avg 4 · peak 13Dec 2016 — avg 5 · peak 16Apr 2017 — avg 4 · peak 15Aug 2017 — avg 4 · peak 13Dec 2017 — avg 6 · peak 17Apr 2018 — avg 5 · peak 16Aug 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Dec 2018 — avg 5 · peak 15Apr 2019 — avg 4 · peak 15Aug 2019 — avg 4 · peak 15Dec 2019 — avg 6 · peak 19Apr 2020 — avg 6 · peak 16Aug 2020 — avg 4 · peak 13Dec 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2021 — avg 4 · peak 11Aug 2021 — avg 5 · peak 16Dec 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Apr 2022 — avg 6 · peak 15Aug 2022 — avg 5 · peak 15Dec 2022 — avg 6 · peak 17Apr 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Aug 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2023 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2025 — avg 4 · peak 15Aug 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 15Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.13$0.522015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-11 — best price $0.992015-11-23 — best price $3.992016-06-24 — best price $5.342017-01-07 — best price $3.992017-11-04 — best price $0.992018-05-01 — best price $1.002018-09-14 — best price $1.592019-01-21 — best price $0.802019-05-24 — best price $0.792019-09-17 — best price $3.992020-01-02 — best price $3.992020-03-28 — best price $0.722020-06-26 — best price $3.992020-10-09 — best price $3.992021-01-04 — best price $3.992021-04-08 — best price $0.792021-07-02 — best price $3.992021-09-30 — best price $0.672021-12-15 — best price $0.792022-03-12 — best price $3.642022-07-03 — best price $0.792022-09-29 — best price $0.792023-01-07 — best price $3.992023-04-28 — best price $0.802023-08-17 — best price $3.992023-12-02 — best price $3.992024-03-18 — best price $0.702024-07-04 — best price $3.992024-10-24 — best price $3.992025-02-13 — best price $0.682025-05-24 — best price $3.992025-08-17 — best price $0.822025-11-01 — best price $0.822026-01-21 — best price $3.992026-05-01 — best price $0.792026-07-25 — best price $3.992026-09-14 — best price $0.802026-10-14 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

11822026-06-02 — 6 pageviews2026-06-06 — 10 pageviews2026-06-10 — 10 pageviews2026-06-14 — 10 pageviews2026-06-18 — 6 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-30 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-12 — 7 pageviews2026-07-16 — 10 pageviews2026-07-20 — 16 pageviews2026-07-24 — 8 pageviews2026-07-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-05 — 10 pageviews2026-08-09 — 9 pageviews2026-08-13 — 14 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-25 — 8 pageviews2026-08-29 — 8 pageviews2026-09-02 — 17 pageviews2026-09-06 — 14 pageviews2026-09-10 — 14 pageviews2026-09-14 — 12 pageviews2026-09-18 — 8 pageviews2026-09-22 — 7 pageviews2026-09-26 — 6 pageviews2026-09-30 — 4 pageviews2026-10-04 — 11 pageviews2026-10-08 — 7 pageviews2026-10-11 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

SpaceAliensSci-fiStrategyTacticalSingleplayerReal-Time with Pause

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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