Xenonauts

Released: Jun 16, 2014
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 07 Sep 2026, 08:32 GMT

Updates & announcements

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17 Apr 2023Developer post
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
17 Jul 2018Developer post
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: It's been very successful, so huge thanks to anyone that backed us - we asked for £50,000 and were fully funded in 8 hours, and we're now well ove
20 Jun 2018PC Gamer
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 days left to go. An update posted by studio
20 Jun 2018Developer post
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: Full details of the new game are available on the Kickstarter page, along with a free alpha demo of a tactical combat mission - we've
04 Jun 2018PC Gamer
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, June 6 at 6am PST / 2pm BST. First, let's
24 Feb 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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. You can play one sin
29 Oct 2016Developer post
Cloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community Edition
Two things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be able to access them if you want to play Xenonauts on a different machine. Hopefull
29 Oct 2016Developer post
Cloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community Edition
Two things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be able to access them if you want to play Xenonauts on a different machine. Hopefull
08 Aug 2016Developer post
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 b
08 Aug 2016Developer post
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 b
04 Feb 2016Developer post
Xenonauts 2 confirmed and expected in 2017!
We have now officially confirmed we are working on Xenonauts 2, and we're currently hoping for a 2017 release for the game! The full statement and some basic details on the sequel can be read here (with more to follow in the next couple of months): Thanks to everyone that has sup
04 Feb 2016Developer post
Xenonauts 2 confirmed and expected in 2017!
We have now officially confirmed we are working on Xenonauts 2, and we're currently hoping for a 2017 release for the game! The full statement and some basic details on the sequel can be read here (with more to follow in the next couple of months): Thanks to everyone that has sup
03 Feb 2016PC Gamer
Xenonauts 2 is officially confirmed
Released in the summer of 2014, Xenonauts is a turn-based tactics game that was heavily inspired by X-COM: UFO Defense . (That would be the 1994 predecessor to the 2012 update XCOM: Enemy Unknown .) But it grew into a deeper and more detailed game that proved a triumph of reboote
19 Jan 2016Developer post
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
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.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/5958-Xenonauts-Experimental-Builds-Instructions We will also merge these fixes into the native Mac / Linux builds in the future if they prove to be stable. Most of these fixes are drawn from improvements to the game made by the Xenonauts: Community Edition team, so a public thank you to those who contributed to X:CE in general and to Solver specifically for putting this patch together for us. Changes:

Miss shots should no longer go through walls; the trajectory code has been updated so they should only hit tiles that a "hit" shot would be able to hit.
Grenade scatter calculation updated, so "miss" throws can actually miss by a meaningful amount. This applies to both Xenonauts and aliens throwing grenades.
Stunned zombies (which appear dead) will no longer spawn zombies. This will eliminate the bug where Reapers apparently spawn from thin air, and occasionally were also invulnerable for reasons that remain unclear
Damage from base defence turrets now correctly reduces the number of attacking aliens it fails to destroy an attacking UFO.
Soldiers now gain Bravery from taking suppression damage, as it was virtually impossible to train up before.
Soldier Strength now updates correctly, as there was a bug in the formula before.
Manufacturing screen now displays the number of required items in your stores when previewing a project, rather than just the number of required items.
Saviour Medal and Crux Solaris medals can now be awarded and displayed correctly.
Alien bases are now correctly destroyed if you blow the Cores and then suffer a squadwipe.
Fixed an issue in the air combat where the aircraft throttles would sometimes not work properly.
Geoscape performance has been optimised on some systems.
Game startup speed has been improved.
Fixed crash when a building collapses with a drone inside.
Minor revisions to game manual.
This is likely to be the final gameplay update for vanilla Xenonauts, but Xenonauts: Community Edition is still under ongoing development so be sure to keep up to date with their progress in the future!
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19 Jan 2016Developer post
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
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.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/5958-Xenonauts-Experimental-Builds-Instructions We will also merge these fixes into the native Mac / Linux builds in the future if they prove to be stable. Most of these fixes are drawn from improvements to the game made by the Xenonauts: Community Edition team, so a public thank you to those who contributed to X:CE in general and to Solver specifically for putting this patch together for us. Changes:

Miss shots should no longer go through walls; the trajectory code has been updated so they should only hit tiles that a "hit" shot would be able to hit.
Grenade scatter calculation updated, so "miss" throws can actually miss by a meaningful amount. This applies to both Xenonauts and aliens throwing grenades.
Stunned zombies (which appear dead) will no longer spawn zombies. This will eliminate the bug where Reapers apparently spawn from thin air, and occasionally were also invulnerable for reasons that remain unclear
Damage from base defence turrets now correctly reduces the number of attacking aliens it fails to destroy an attacking UFO.
Soldiers now gain Bravery from taking suppression damage, as it was virtually impossible to train up before.
Soldier Strength now updates correctly, as there was a bug in the formula before.
Manufacturing screen now displays the number of required items in your stores when previewing a project, rather than just the number of required items.
Saviour Medal and Crux Solaris medals can now be awarded and displayed correctly.
Alien bases are now correctly destroyed if you blow the Cores and then suffer a squadwipe.
Fixed an issue in the air combat where the aircraft throttles would sometimes not work properly.
Geoscape performance has been optimised on some systems.
Game startup speed has been improved.
Fixed crash when a building collapses with a drone inside.
Minor revisions to game manual.
This is likely to be the final gameplay update for vanilla Xenonauts, but Xenonauts: Community Edition is still under ongoing development so be sure to keep up to date with their progress in the future!
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10 Jan 2016Developer post
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 re
10 Jan 2016Developer post
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 re
06 Oct 2015Developer post
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
06 Oct 2015Developer post
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
30 Sep 2015PC Gamer
Xenonauts 2 is being prototyped right now
Over on the Goldhawk Forums , Xenonauts project lead Chris England is raising everybody's hopes for Xenonauts 2. His language is tentative but promising. "We're still evaluating the possibility," he says, "But I'd say the chances of us making Xenonauts 2 as our next game are bett