Xenonauts
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…
Xenonauts is an indie developed by Goldhawk Interactive, released 17 July 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.99 at GOG.
What Xenonauts is
Xenonauts is an indie game developed by Goldhawk Interactive and released in 2014. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Playground SDK.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Xenonauts is a turn-based science fiction video game developed and published as the maiden title of London-based independent game studio Goldhawk Interactive. Inspired by the 1994 game UFO: Enemy Unknown, gameplay involves the player taking the role of the commander of a clandestine organization known as the Xenonauts, and attempting to defeat an alien invasion of Earth in the alternative history year 1979. The game was released on June 17, 2014 for Microsoft Windows. Ports to Mac OS X and Linux were initially based on the Wine compatibility layer, until native ports became available in September 2015. A sequel, Xenonauts 2, was released through early access in 2023.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Xenonauts holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and Integrated Graphics. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Xenonauts launched on 17 July 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Divinity: Original Sin and Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Divinity: Original Sin, Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Xenonauts yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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