Xenonauts on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

Xenonauts is a turn-based strategy, turn-based tactics and turn-based combat game developed and published by Goldhawk Interactive.
Released on June 16th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 4,869 reviews of which 4,252 were positive and 617 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *:Windows 8 / 7 SP1 / Vista SP2
  • Processor:Intel 2 GHz
  • Memory:1 GB RAM
  • Graphics:Integrated Graphics
  • Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
  • Sound:Integrated
  • Monitor:1280x720 pixels minimum
MacOS
  • OS:OSX 10.6 or better
  • Processor:Intel 2 GHz
  • Memory:1 GB RAM
  • Graphics:Integrated Graphics
  • Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
  • Sound:Integrated
  • Monitor:1280x720 pixels minimum
Linux
  • OS:Any Linux distribution since 2010
  • Processor:Intel 2 GHz
  • Memory:1 GB RAM
  • Graphics:Integrated Graphics
  • Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
  • Sound:Integrated
  • Monitor:1280x720 pixels minimum

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
This game is awesome. I like it more then xcom cause there is much more control.| make sure to use community edition under beta in the games steam properties..... for the community enhances editio thank you for another steam reviewer for making me aware of the community enhances edition
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Nov. 2024
Game is fun, good lore, cool animations, gives good nostalgia vibes of an old game, but can sometimes be unbearably unfair even on easy difficulty.
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Nov. 2024
It's basically XCOM. And I love XCOM. It's not XCOM. Nothing is XCOM except XCOM, but this is pretty good. It can get a little repetitive, but that's when you load your whole squad with rocket launchers and go have a blast. The game is stable on vanilla, I tried using the Community Edition with Lore+ and Armored Assault mods, but the game crashed like every 10 minutes with those. I reinstalled and haven't had a crash in days. If you never played XCOM before, this is a good place to start your alien defense simulator adventure. You manage everything and it's really like 3 games in 1 where you manage your development, do air battles with UFOs, then go to the crash sites to get tactical on dem AYYYS. It's kinda like Fallout 1&2 and Fallout Tactics. Turn-based, beer&pretzels, save anytime type of deal. Plus they did a really good job with the hardware, I love just looking at them planes and guns.
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Oct. 2024
Played more than 77 on another launcher. This game is ridiculously hard - I have never come anywhere near completeing... in other words 10/10
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Sept. 2024
The game is really good. I've never played the original XCOM so this was a little challenging(but in a good way). Has a couple of bugs but nothing game breaking.
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Xenonauts
8.4
4,252
617
Online players
59
Developer
Goldhawk Interactive
Publisher
Goldhawk Interactive
Release 16 Jun 2014
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