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UFO: Aftershock

ALTAR Interactive · Fulqrum Publishing · 2014-04-16

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player

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.

5
playing now
75%
positive of 261 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
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)
$3.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 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.

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  • · Top 55% of 5,933 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.5k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 261 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.79-80%
Humble Store$0.79-80%
GOG$0.79-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.79-80%
GreenManGaming$0.80-80%

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 132 of 178 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1102026-08-11 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.13$0.522015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — 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 $3.992026-08-30 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

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.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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