Xenonauts overview

Overview

Xenonauts comes from Goldhawk Interactive and is published by Goldhawk Interactive. It arrived on Steam on Jun 16, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Xenonauts's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 20 players at 13 September 2026 - 04:41:02 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1,601. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 87% positive across 5,070 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Xenonauts is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Xenonauts has sold up to 220,000 units and has 3,812 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $3,600,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Xenonauts overview details

Xenonauts combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

WISHLIST XENONAUTS 2 About the Game 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. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet, using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs and researching captured artefacts to learn about your foes and unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions. Xenonauts is a spiritual successor to the classic X-Com strategy games from the 1990s. We aim to improve the graphics, add new content and streamline the interface whilst still retaining all of the key mechanics of the original games. Devoted fans should love this game, but we're also keen to introduce the joys of old-school grand strategy to a whole new generation of players who might not otherwise experience it! Please note that the native Mac / Linux versions of the game are still in beta, however older WINE-wrapped "ports" are available and known to be stable whilst development of the native ports is still ongoing. Key Features Ground Combat: Xenonauts delivers tense turn-based combat across realistic, varied and fully-destructible battlefields, against almost fifty different variants of enemy. Missions range from capturing crashed UFOs or alien bases to defending cities (or even Xenonaut facilities) against alien attack. You'll experience the chill of encountering a new alien for the first time and the joys of test-firing a…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Xenonauts is listed as a game with $24.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 20 players at 13 September 2026 - 04:41:02 UTC, a tracked peak of 1,601, and 87% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Turn-Based StrategyTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatBase-BuildingGrand StrategyManagementSingleplayerStrategyTacticalAliensSci-fiIndieIsometricSimulationTurn-Based

Content descriptors

This game allows you to inflict violence on extraterrestrials and humans. There are also autopsy images of dead extraterrestrial creatures.

Support and legal notes

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