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X3: Albion Prelude

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App ID 201310
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Egosoft
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Last Changenumber 29114872
Last Record Update 21 May 2025 – 23:10:54 UTC ()
Release Date 16 December 2011 – 00:15:00 UTC ()
😎 88.22%
2k reviews
57
In-Game
🖥️ Simulation 🌠 Space 💥 Action 🧱 Sandbox 🚀 Sci-fi

X3: Albion Prelude is the latest game in the X3 space game series. TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD, THINK in a living and breathing universe. A new plot and many additions to the open free-form gameplay.

Additional Information

Developer Egosoft
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MustOwnAppToPurchase X3: Terran Conflict (2820)
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Publisher Egosoft
SortAs X3.2
Store Release Date 16 December 2011 – 00:15:00 UTC ()
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Social Media https://discord.gg/ZwctxzXhhG
Primary Genre Simulation (28)
Store Genres Action (1), Simulation (28)
Steam Release Date 16 December 2011 – 00:15:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 15 December 2022 – 09:47:53 UTC () (1671097673)
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Detected Technologies (?) Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK
First seen on SteamDB 4 March 2013 – 18:18:19 UTC (), in changelist #188988

Supported Languages

10 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes

Tags

🖥️ Simulation 🌠 Space 💥 Action 🧱 Sandbox 🚀 Sci-fi 💼 Trading 👤 Singleplayer 🚀 Space Sim 🏦 Economy 🛠️ Moddable 🌍 Open World ▶️ Real-Time 🎶 Great Soundtrack 💡 Strategy 💎 Epic 🗺️ Adventure 🗺️ 4X 👣 TrackIR 💼 Management

Categories

Single-player Downloadable Content Steam Achievements Captions available Steam Cloud Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

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Steam charts

  • 57 players right now
  • 67 24-hour peak
  • 1,917 all-time peak 18 May 2013
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  • 4,018 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 😎 Very Positive
  • 88.22% SteamDB Rating
  • 1,950 92.5% positive reviews
  • 159 7.5% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
16 December 2011 Steam Release -
19 September 2013 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Weekly Sale: Egosoft Games -
12 March 2015 Free Weekend -
20 April 2022 ⇄ Humble Bundle: The X Universe Collection -

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Steam player counter indicates there are currently 57 players live playing X3: Albion Prelude on Steam.

X3: Albion Prelude had an all-time peak of 1917 concurrent players on 18 May 2013.

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