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Xenonauts

86% positive of 3,819 Steam reviews

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Released
2014
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Goldhawk Interactive.

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.

Tagged by players

  • Grand Strategy
  • Cold War
  • Turn-Based Tactics
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Turn-Based Combat
  • Base Building
  • Aliens
  • Turn-Based
  • Management
  • Isometric
  • Tactical
  • Sci-fi

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Wanted to like this game, but its just so dull. Want a decent Xcom experience and already tried the Xcom and Xcom 2 remakes? Just get Pheonix Point, its a lot better than this. The biggest problem is the awful control scheme when playing ground missions - just terrible. The AI has a habit of the alien just running away and setting overwatch. You spend ages looking for the last alien, it's just tedious. Yes, the…

    2.4 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    This is a tough one to recommend. As a die-hard fan of the X-COM series I would say you can pick it up but even then you will be miserable. During my play-through I produced 179 crashsites and did 77 missions excluding the final one. There is not much variety or tech tree progress to make these missions interesting after the 10th. So for a normal person I guess this game is not fun. I still gave it a thumbs up…

    23 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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