Released Jun 16, 2014 $24.99 Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Xenonauts

By Goldhawk Interactive

Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based Tactics Turn-Based Combat Base Building Grand Strategy Management Singleplayer Strategy TacticalAliensSci-fiIndie

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Reviews 3,827 Very Positive

Players yesterday 53 at the busiest moment

Owners 500K–1M estimated

Xenonauts is a game tagged Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics and Turn-Based Combat by Goldhawk Interactive, released Jun 16, 2014. It has 3,827 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 500K–1M owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include GhostControl Inc., Derples Vs Xenos and Xenonauts 2.

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.

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GhostControl Inc. 72% match · Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Combat
Derples Vs Xenos 71% match · Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Combat
Xenonauts 2 71% match · Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Combat
XCOM®: Chimera Squad 70% match · Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Combat
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Everything Steam lists for Xenonauts · record updated 13 hours ago

Steam store

Overview

App ID223830

Release dateJun 16, 2014

Last change number37432492

Last record update13 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: Goldhawk Interactive
Publisher: Goldhawk Interactive
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise: Goldhawk Interactive
Metacritic: 77
Website: xenonauts.com

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes

Windows macOS Linux

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Single-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Prices

Price · US$24.99

On sale0 of 41regions right now

Lowest seen · US$24.99Oct 26, 2026

Checked14 hours agoin 41 regions

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Patches

Build	Branch	Updated
794369	legacy	Oct 25, 2026
1007626	experiment	Oct 25, 2026
543488	compatibility	Oct 25, 2026
12760814	public	Nov 21, 2023
4987080	community	May 5, 2020

Packages & DLC

ID	Name	Games	Price (US)
28223	Xenonauts	1	$24.99
15181 Bundle	The Cold War Bundle	4	$43.31

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
223831	— English	Windows	2.76 GB	2.39 GB	2571778493951657023
223833	— English	Linux	2.56 GB	2.24 GB	6578508371997597324
223835	— English	macOS	2.56 GB	2.24 GB	5341086061831798490
223836	— English	Windows	—	—	—
223837	— Italian	Windows	2.53 GB	2.19 GB	2197630807150670993
223849	—	All	—	—	—

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	12760814	Nov 21, 2023	Open
community Xenonauts: Community Edition branch	4987080	May 5, 2020	Open
legacy Contains Xenonauts V1.09	794369	—	Open
experiment Public test branch; contains latest updates, possibly unstable	1007626	—	Open
compatibility No tile atlases / sprite archives; slower load times but better performance on low-end machines. Warning: has ~150,000 files.	543488	—	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Xenonauts

Executable	Arguments	Systems	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