How many people are playing Xenonauts right now?

26 people are playing Xenonauts on Steam right now, making it the 4900th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 37 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is Xenonauts's all-time peak player count?

Xenonauts's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 1,601, reached in June 2014.

Is Xenonauts good? What do Steam reviews say?

86% of 3,828 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).

How much does Xenonauts cost on Steam?

Xenonauts costs $24.99 on Steam (US).

Does Xenonauts work on Steam Deck?

Xenonauts is Unsupported on Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Xenonauts

by Goldhawk Interactive · Released Jun 16, 2014

Steam Deck UnsupportedLinux & Deck: Platinum

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#4,900

▲ 23.8%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

86% positive

Very Positive3,828 reviews

Owners (est.)500K–1M

24h peak

Highest seen1,601

Jun 201412.4 years ago

Price on Steam

$24.99

Lowest ever $24.99 Nov 2026

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Players +23.8% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 15:28 UTC · tracking since 2013-05-01

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86% positive of 3,828 · Very Positive · Live from Steam

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Nov 21, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC
Build 12760814the current build when we started tracking5.7 GB on Windows

Patch notes

Apr 17, 2023
PatchLauncher 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…
Aug 8, 2016
PatchXenonauts 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 W…
Aug 8, 2016
PatchXenonauts 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 W…
Jan 19, 2016
PatchXenonauts 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 any…
Jan 19, 2016
PatchXenonauts 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 any…
Jan 10, 2016
PatchFurther 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 h…

Other news (13)

Jul 17, 2018
Xenonauts-2 Kickstarter: 72 hours left!
Another quick update to let everyone know that the Kickstarter for Xenonauts-2 has entered its final three days. You can see it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts-2-strategic-planetary-defence-simulator/ It's been very successful, so…
Jun 20, 2018
Xenonauts 2 successfully crowdfunded in half a day (Updated)
Update: Xenonauts 2's Kickstarter campaign has been successfully funded, several hours after going live. As outlined in our original story below, the project sought £50,000. At the time of writing, its total has reached £67,698—with 29 da…
Jun 20, 2018
Xenonauts-2 Kickstarter is live!
If you played and enjoyed the original Xenonauts, you may be interested to know that the Kickstarter for the sequel Xenonauts-2 has now gone live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts-2-strategic-planetary-defence-simulator/ Full details of …
Jun 4, 2018
Get Xenonauts free in GOG's Summer Gaming Sale
GOG's Summer Gaming Sale —or #SummerGaming Sale as it's stylised on-site—is live now through June 18. To mark the occasion, the digital storefront is giving away sci-fi strategy game Xenonauts free-of-charge from today through Wednesday…
Feb 24, 2017
XC mon: Xenonauts 2 releasing free dev builds
When X-COM cast off its hyphen and complexity to become XCOM, Xenonauts was handily here with old-school alien-busting . Now you can see how its sequel is shaping up, as developers Goldhawk Interactive are releasing development builds of Xenonauts 2 for free. …
Oct 29, 2016
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Review score: 86% on 2026-11-01 → 86% today (3,828 reviews)

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Xenonauts player count and quick facts

How many people are playing Xenonauts right now?: 26 people are playing Xenonauts on Steam right now, making it the 4900th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 37 players. The number updates every few minutes.
What is Xenonauts's all-time peak player count?: Xenonauts's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 1,601, reached in June 2014.
Is Xenonauts good? What do Steam reviews say?: 86% of 3,828 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).
How much does Xenonauts cost on Steam?: Xenonauts costs $24.99 on Steam (US).
Does Xenonauts work on Steam Deck?: Xenonauts is Unsupported on Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

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Store info

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.

Developer: Goldhawk Interactive
Publisher: Goldhawk Interactive
Release date: Jun 16, 2014
Install size: 3 GB minimum
Platforms: macOS · Linux · Windows
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy · All
Steam app ID: 223830

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