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Xenonauts

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App ID 223830
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Goldhawk Interactive
Franchise Goldhawk Interactive
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies PlayFirstPlayground Engine
Last Changenumber 28970368
Last Record Update 13 May 2025 – 23:57:39 UTC ()
Release Date 16 June 2014 – 20:12:00 UTC ()
😎 84.22%
4k reviews
24
In-Game
🎲 Turn-Based Strategy 🎲 Turn-Based Tactics 🛡️ Turn-Based Combat 🏠 Base Building 🛡️ Grand Strategy

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.

Additional Information

Developer Goldhawk Interactive
gamedir ValveTestApp223830
metacritic_name Xenonauts
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metacritic_score 77
NoServers No
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/xenonauts?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
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VisibleOnlyWhenSubscribed Yes
sourcegame Yes
workshop_visible Yes
thirdpartycdkey Yes
Publisher Goldhawk Interactive
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Store Release Date 16 June 2014 – 20:21:00 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Indie (23), Simulation (28), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 16 June 2014 – 20:12:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 14 June 2019 – 10:15:50 UTC () (1560507350)
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Detected Technologies (?) PlayFirstPlayground Engine, Lua SDK, SDL SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
  •  
  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
  • test_timestamp: 4 November 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 1007626
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 4 May 2013 – 21:12:21 UTC (), in changelist #185065
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes

Tags

🎲 Turn-Based Strategy 🎲 Turn-Based Tactics 🛡️ Turn-Based Combat 🏠 Base Building 🛡️ Grand Strategy 💼 Management 👤 Singleplayer 💡 Strategy 🤔 Tactical 👽 Aliens 🚀 Sci-fi 🌱 Indie 🌆 Isometric 🖥️ Simulation 🎲 Turn-Based 💰 Kickstarter ☢️ Cold War 🏽 2D 🔄 Remake 🌫 Atmospheric

Categories

Single-player Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing

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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
223831 Windows EnglishXenonauts Content 2.76 GiB 2.39 GiB
223833 Linux EnglishXenonauts Linux 2.56 GiB 2.24 GiB
223835 macOS EnglishXenonauts Mac 2.56 GiB 2.24 GiB
223837 Windows ItalianXenonauts Italian 2.53 GiB 2.19 GiB
223849 UnusedXenonauts Soundtrack No size
223836 Windows EnglishXenonauts Community Edition No size

Total size on disk is 10.41 GiB and total download size is 9.06 GiB.

Total size on disk is 2.76 GiB and total download size is 2.39 GiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 12760814 21 November 2023 – 13:44:14 UTC
community Xenonauts: Community Edition branch 4987080 5 May 2020 – 21:42:46 UTC
compatibility No tile atlases / sprite archives; slower load times but better performance on low-end machines. Warning: has ~150,000 files. 543488
experiment Public test branch; contains latest updates, possibly unstable 1007626
legacy Contains Xenonauts V1.09 794369

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