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XERA: Survival
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“this game is good for the free price but is boring after 20hrs of gameplay”
— a player, Steam review · 47 hrs played“Jocu are potential mare, foarte misto mai ales daca joci cu tovarasi”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I can’t recommend this game. The gameplay itself is fun, but there’s a major issue: if you stop playing for a while and then return, you risk getting banned. The only way to regain access is by emailing the creator and waiting one to two weeks for the ban to be lifted, which is…”
— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:47 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Season 8.5 Begins Now!
🎉 Welcome to Season 8.5 of XERA: Survival! 🎉The servers have been reconfigured for this maintenance wipe and OCE servers have been decommissioned and EU and US East servers will be available during th
Wipe Announcement
Greetings Survivors! It's been awhile since we've touched base - we really appreciate everyone who has stuck around for the many years of XERA: Survival's development. As you are well aware we a long
Special XP Boost Event Now through January 20th!
XP Boost Event! We have enabled the first XP Boost event of the season for all players which will be active during the next server restart. This event will run beginning today and is scheduled to end
Patch Notes 1.2.12 - Season Pass and PVE Updates!
Greetings Survivors! Patch 1.2.12 includes multiple features requested by the community over the past couple of months! We're excited to hear your feedback and have released a few changes based on you
Scheduled Maintenance 1/13/2024 6:00PM CST - 6:15PM CST
Greetings Survivors! There will be a brief downtime today at 6:00PM CST for server maintenance. At this time the downtime will last for about 15-20 minutes to deploy patch 1.2.11. Enhanced Weapon Cosm
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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 | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Base-Building · Open World Survival Craft · Multiplayer · Free to Play · Survival · Crafting · Open World · Post-apocalyptic · Robots · Building · Sandbox · Shooter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Thai |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://xeragame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64-bit Windows 10, Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 50 GB available space Additional Notes: Installing on a SSD is highly recommended.