Spirits of Xanadu

At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Spirits of Xanadu is a atmospheric, sci-fi and adventure game developed by Good Morning, Commander, allen trivette and Lee Williams and published by Nightdive Studios.
Released on March 26th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, German and French.

It has received 458 reviews of which 358 were positive and 100 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Spirits of Xanadu into these genres:

Atmospheric Sci-fi Adventure Space Immersive Sim Exploration FPS Indie Singleplayer Action Action-Adventure Mystery Story Rich Female Protagonist Horror Psychological Horror Shooter First-Person Open World Great Soundtrack

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP2 or later
Processor: 2.451 GHz dual-core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Dedicated graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and shader model 3.0
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.6+
Processor: 2.4 GHz dual-core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Dedicated graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and shader model 3.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu/Mint
Processor: 2.4 GHz dual-core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Dedicated graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and shader model 3.0
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Nvidia GPU recommended

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

Spirits of Xanadu is a short and sweet simple game that plays like a very simplified System Shock 1. The atmosphere is surprisingly effective for the simplistic graphics, the attention to detail and environmental interactivity is very commendable, and there are a fair few secrets jam packed into the experience. It's a game that I feel I've thoroughly experienced (at just around 3 hours), so it's a very short experience. The first playthrough probably took me about an hour and a half, with subsequent playthroughs being much shorter. An enjoyable short experience that certainly reads like a simple love letter to the masterpieces of old. As long as you keep your expectations in check, I think fans of the first person immersive sim genre will be pleased.

July 2024

1. The game has a lot more immersive sim elements compared to "horror FPS" or whatever; 2. Finished it while trying to explore as much of the ship as possible in an hour and a half. It is somewhat replayable / speedrunable; Overall I really do recommend this. Would I have paid 5 euros for it? maybe not (even though it's still really cheap), but at 1,24? it's a steal and I highly recommend it if you're a fan of immsims

May 2024

I really enjoyed playing this game. I spent most of my time aboard the Xanadu in peaceful mode, exploring every room, reading every e-mail, eating donuts, and playing an arcade game. The story is simple and unfolds at a good pace. The graphics and music won't win any awards, but they get the job done. Full disclosure: I am not a FPS fan and I rarely play those games. I got killed a lot in easy mode. If you're an experienced FPS player, you'll probably survive longer than I did.

March 2024

This game is very short and not a lot happens but I had fun. I only wish that there was just a little more direction from the game on what to do. I kind of just fumbled around for a bit and then got the bad ending cuz I couldnt figure out how to get the good one.

Feb. 2024

If you can look beyond the graphics from the early FPS era, this game is pretty interesting.

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Developer

Good Morning, Commander, allen trivette, Lee Williams

Publisher

Nightdive Studios

Release 26 Mar 2015

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