Game
App 223830
Xenonauts
Goldhawk Interactive · released Jun 16, 2014
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.
Price
$24.99
US store
Reviews
86%
3,828 · Very Positive
Playing now
15
sampled 20h ago
24h peak
15
all-time seen 18
Followers
—
Steam community hub
Owners (est.)
~191K
95.7K – 306K
YouTube activity
0
videos · 30 d9
creators53.7K
views · 1 yTwitch activity
0
avg viewers · 30 d3
hours watched · 30 d1
streamers · 30 dProduct info
from Steam's PICS · read 3d ago- Change number
- 37,432,492
- Public build
- 12,760,814 · Nov 21, 2023 (2y ago)
- Operating systems
- windows, macos, linux
- Architecture
- —
- Install size
- 11 GB · 9.7 GB download
- Install folder
Xenonauts- Controller support
- —
- Metacritic
- 77
- Homepage
- www.xenonauts.com
- Release state
- —
- Community
- hub · Workshop
Steam Deck
UnsupportedTested Nov 4, 2022 on build 1,007,626
- ✕Steam osdoes not support
Branches · 5
every build Steam serves for this app| Branch | Build | Updated | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| public | 12,760,814 | Nov 21, 2023 · 2y ago | |
| community | 4,987,080 | May 5, 2020 · 6y ago | Xenonauts: Community Edition branch |
| compatibility | 543,488 | — | No tile atlases / sprite archives; slower load times but better performance on low-end machines. Warning: has ~150,000 files. |
| experiment | 1,007,626 | — | Public test branch; contains latest updates, possibly unstable |
| legacy | 794,369 | — | Contains Xenonauts V1.09 |
Build history
every build id we have seen on a branch (history starts with our first read)| Build | Branch | Released | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12,760,814 | public | Nov 21, 2023 13:44 | 3d ago |
| 4,987,080 | community | May 5, 2020 21:42 | 3d ago |
| 1,007,626 | experiment | — | 3d ago |
| 794,369 | legacy | — | 3d ago |
| 543,488 | compatibility | — | 3d ago |
Depots · 6
content of the public branch| Depot | Name | OS | Language | DLC / shared | Size | Download | Manifest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 223831 | windows | english | 3.0 GB | 2.6 GB | 2571778493951657023 | ||
| 223833 | linux | english | 2.7 GB | 2.4 GB | 6578508371997597324 | ||
| 223835 | macos | english | 2.7 GB | 2.4 GB | 5341086061831798490 | ||
| 223836 | windows | english | — | — | |||
| 223837 | windows | italian | 2.7 GB | 2.3 GB | 2197630807150670993 | ||
| 223849 | all | — | — |
Launch options · 5
| Executable | OS | Description |
|---|---|---|
xenonauts.exe |
windows | Launch Game |
Xenonauts.app |
macos | Launch Game |
Xenonauts.bin.x86 |
linux | Launch Game |
Xenonauts.app-nolauncher |
macos | Skip Launcher |
Xenonauts.bin.x86-nolauncher |
linux | Skip Launcher |
Languages · 1
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | ✓ | ✓ | — |
Packages · 1
all packages| Sub | Name | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28223 | Xenonauts | Store | $24.99 |
Bundles · 1
all bundles| Bundle | Games | Bundle discount | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cold War Bundle | 5 | -15% | $61.15 |
Updates · patch notes
Steam announcements tagged as patch notes, linked to the public build they followed
| When | Note | Build | Update size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2023 | 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 the old development update RSS feed in the Xenonauts launcher with an image that links through to the Steam page for the sequel (in case anyone that enjoyed the first game was not aware that the sequel |
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| Aug 8, 2016 | Xenonauts V1.65 Stable Released! This is a brief update, as we've pushed V1.65 from the Experimental branch to the Stable branch. I've post the patch notes from V1.65 Experimental below so you can see what has changed, but the main reason we've pushed this update to Stable is that there's a Windows 10 specific bug that is fixed by V1.65 which is affecting some of our users. We'll be monitoring V1.65 to see if it causes any additi |
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| Jan 19, 2016 | Xenonauts V1.65 Experimental Released! We've released a new version of Xenonauts for Windows on the Experimental branch, V1.65. It contains some gameplay updates, but it will need some testing to see if it is stable before being rolled out to the default Stable branch for all Steam users, so if anyone can test it that would be appreciated. To access the Experimental branch, please follow the instructions here: http://www.goldhawkintera |
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| Jan 10, 2016 | Further fixes to Mac / Linux builds! We've had another patch for the Mac / Linux versions of Xenonauts available on the Experimental branch over the festive season, and it appears to fix some compatibility issues that some users have been experiencing without introducing any additional bugs. We have therefore now released it to the main default Steam branch. There's no changes to the gameplay mechanics so there are no changes to the |
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| Oct 6, 2015 | Mac / Linux Builds Updated Just a quick note to say there's been a further patch to the Mac / Linux native builds that were released last week, bringing them up to V1.60. This should address some bugs that were only affecting the Mac / Linux builds, the most annoying being the crashes / freezes during the alien turn that were making the game unplayable for some. Initial reports seem to suggest that the majority of these iss |
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| Sep 29, 2015 | Native Mac / Linux Builds! Xenonauts now has native Mac and Linux ports available rather than the WINE-wrapped Windows version that we previously used as "ports" for these platforms. These have been produced by a porter who works with the Humble Bundle team and are not directly being produced by us. This is obviously great news and we've just made these versions available on Steam (the WINE builds are available in the Legac |
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| Apr 13, 2015 | Xenonauts V1.59 Released! We've just released Xenonauts V1.59 for PC and Linux, and will be releasing the Mac version shortly if no bugs appear in the next 24-48 hours. V1.59 is the revised version of V1.58, which we rolled back a week or so ago because we were concerned about stability issues. V1.58 included several fixes over V1.56, the biggest of which was a fix for an annoying AI hang. Thanks for your patience! |
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