Games like Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
If you like Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (stealth, real-time tactics and world war ii), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
X-COM: UFO Defense
- In common: thinking and a challenge
- Difference: more management
When you feel like weighing every move: in combat, each soldier spends time units to move, shoot or kneel.
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
- In common: thinking and a challenge
- Difference: more management
When you already know UFO Defense and want another campaign: same engine, set under the sea and reputedly harder.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
- In common: thinking and long sessions
- Difference: more story
When you've got plenty of evenings ahead: the longer missions take an hour and the campaign runs to around 25-30 hours.
XCOM 2
- In common: thinking and a challenge
- Difference: more progression
When you feel like thinking and have an hour or two: each mission is a small tactical drama.
Into the Breach
- In common: thinking and a challenge
- Difference: shorter sessions
When you want to think seriously but in little time: a mission lasts minutes and you can stop on any turn.
Star Wars: Empire at War - Gold Pack
- In common: thinking and long sessions
- Difference: more management
When you have a long afternoon and fancy moving entire Star Wars fleets with calm planning.
SteamWorld Heist
- In common: thinking and long sessions
- Difference: more progression
When you fancy turn-based tactics without endless battles: each mission usually takes 10 to 20 minutes.
FTL: Faster Than Light
- In common: thinking and a challenge
- Difference: more management
When you have an hour and want to make tough decisions in a compact adventure.
The Last Spell
- In common: thinking and a challenge
- Difference: more progression
When you have a free afternoon: a single night can run past 40 minutes and each map takes around ten hours.
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
- In common: a challenge and thinking
- Difference: more story
When you want a classic puzzle game with dark humour and fart jokes that you can put down at any moment.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Real-time tactics from 1998, set in the Second World War: you lead six commandos, each with his own speciality, through 20 sabotage missions. You dodge the guards' vision cones and, if one of your men falls, the mission fails.
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