X: Beyond the Frontier

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.

X: Beyond the Frontier is a simulation, space and strategy game developed and published by Egosoft.
Released on October 08th 2010 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and German.

It has received 358 reviews of which 267 were positive and 91 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified X: Beyond the Frontier into these genres:

Simulation Space Strategy Sci-fi Singleplayer Space Sim Trading Economy Sandbox Action Open World Flight Exploration Adventure

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 95 or higher
Processor: Pentium II 200 MHz
Memory: 32 MB RAM
Graphics: 4 MB DirectX-compliant video card
DirectX®: DirectX 7.0 or higher
Hard Drive: 360 MB hard-disk space
Sound: DirectX-compliant sound card

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

I played the game X while watching the movie X (2022).

Sept. 2024

Holds up fairly well despite its age, but I would not recommend it except to fans of Egosoft's X series. Newcomers should probably look at X2 or one of the X3 titles to start with. Those games are of much higher quality, and are a bit less frustratingly cryptic. If you do buy this and get stuck, a walkthrough is included in the game files. For fans of X though, this game is pretty nice. You get to see how it all started. It has a bit more of an atmosphere than the more recent games (X4, Rebirth). It is also much simpler than later games, which is both a blessing and a curse. Less complexity, but also less to do. You will probably finish the main plot, and then move on to one of the more recent titles. As for compatibility, despite Egosoft's best efforts this was still made for Windows 9x, and there is only so much they can do. They still patch the game to try and keep it working. But realistically you will need to spend some time debugging in order to get this working on anything newer than Windows 7. Also, you may have issues getting gamepads and joysticks to work. I had no issues with the keyboard or mouse controls. Ironically, you may actually have an easier time getting this to work on Linux. The game runs out of the box on Proton Experimental as of September 2024, but is prone to crashes, so save often. Also NPC portraits are broken and only display a test pattern. I highly recommend installing GE-Proton. With GE-Proton9-11, the game runs much better and portraits mostly work, although sometimes the wrong portrait will be displayed. Lutris' Wine-GE also works fine and is more stable. Even Lutris' Wine-GE still crashes periodically, so remember to save. Overall, a very strong showing for a 25 year old game. One of my all-time favorites, even if it is a somewhat niche title.

May 2024

In a future where Chat GPT has had enough of everyone's bullsh!t, a lone pilot must trade to save the fate of the universe.

April 2024

Imagine this: You're dropped into an alien star system. You don't have anything: no local means of exchange, no technology, no knowledge of even where you are. The only reason you can communicate with aliens at all is because they translated your language out of pure whim. You are loaned a pocket change simply because a local fleet commander comes from a species believing in allowing others to take a chance at "profits." You have two goals: return the pocket change (at the risk of being disposed of as an unholy contract breaker) and a name of a system "somewhere out there" where "there might be somebody who knows anything about your situation." That's it. The universe is your oyster. Dozens of systems. Dozens of supply chains. Dozens of enemies. What you do is up to you. The perfectly polished gameplay is there for you to engage in it. When you arrived, dear Brennan, you had nothing, not even shields to protect you from space dust. When you finished, oh dear Brennan, you had the world. It was not given to you. It was earned by your own tenacity, acumen, flying skills, and patience. You weren't born a hero. But you became one. The X series is a masterpiece of space economics simulators. X: Beyond the Frontier is the first instalment in a rich series. A perfectly polished well-designed game that excels at economics and provides a decent fighter experience and a simple, yet meaningful storyline representing a vast, detailed setting. I love this game. I hope you will too.

Feb. 2024

it's hard to describe how deeply satisfying X: Beyond the Frontier is to play. the freedom of when and if to pursue the story does a lot for making it into a good comfort game to visit whenever i have the time and the slow pace means most of the time i won't get into stressful situations unless i seek them out. there's a lot of freedom in how to approach the game but naturally making a profit is as satisfying as it's ever been as a space trader just make sure to play in 4:3 so the UI doesn't get cut off

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4.99€

7.0

267

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Developer

Egosoft

Publisher

Egosoft

Release 08 Oct 2010

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