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Xenonauts
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“[h3]In brief: highly competent remake of Gollop's [i]X-COM[/i] with solid community mod support. An understated classic, though probably too old-school for the younger generation.[/h3] Way back in 1994, an up-and-coming game designer named Julian Gollop led the independent…”
— a player, Steam review · 392 hrs played“Rock hard and unforgiving, but you want a challange...right??”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“Solid game, playing it again to completion before checking out Xenonaughts 2”
— a player, Steam review · 103 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:56 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Launcher Update
Hello everyone - today's update is just a minor update that shouldn't affect gameplay in any way! As Xenonauts 2 will be launching into Early Access in the next couple of months, we've just replaced t
Xenonauts-2 Kickstarter: 72 hours left!
Another quick update to let everyone know that the Kickstarter for Xenonauts-2 has entered its final three days. You can see it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts-2-strategi
Xenonauts-2 Kickstarter is live!
If you played and enjoyed the original Xenonauts, you may be interested to know that the Kickstarter for the sequel Xenonauts-2 has now gone live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonau
Cloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community Edition
Two things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be ab
Cloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community Edition
Two things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be ab
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat · Base-Building · Grand Strategy · Management · Singleplayer · Strategy · Tactical · Aliens · Sci-fi · Indie (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.xenonauts.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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