Xenonauts

Released: Jun 16, 2014
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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 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
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
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
29 Sep 2015Developer post
Native Mac / Linux Builds!
Xenonauts now has native Mac and Linux ports available rather than the WINE-wrapped Windows version that we previously used as "ports" for these platforms. These have been produced by a porter who works with the Humble Bundle team and are not directly being produced by us. This i
29 Sep 2015Developer post
Native Mac / Linux Builds!
Xenonauts now has native Mac and Linux ports available rather than the WINE-wrapped Windows version that we previously used as "ports" for these platforms. These have been produced by a porter who works with the Humble Bundle team and are not directly being produced by us. This i
13 Apr 2015Developer post
Xenonauts V1.59 Released!
We've just released Xenonauts V1.59 for PC and Linux, and will be releasing the Mac version shortly if no bugs appear in the next 24-48 hours. V1.59 is the revised version of V1.58, which we rolled back a week or so ago because we were concerned about stability issues. V1.58 incl
13 Apr 2015Developer post
Xenonauts V1.59 Released!
We've just released Xenonauts V1.59 for PC and Linux, and will be releasing the Mac version shortly if no bugs appear in the next 24-48 hours. V1.59 is the revised version of V1.58, which we rolled back a week or so ago because we were concerned about stability issues. V1.58 incl
29 Mar 2015Developer post
V1.58 Rolled Back to V1.56
As we've had a few reports of a bug within V1.58 that may be worse than the bugs fixed by the patch (it prevents some people loading ground combat), we've now rolled back the default branch to V1.56 while we look into it. This should not affect save games etc, but if it does or i