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Xenonauts

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Xenonauts
Description
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. A detailed strategic lay...
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Sci-fi
Tags:
Indie, Strategy, Atmospheric, 2D, Sci-fi, show 9 more... Turn-Based, Classic, Science, Tactical, Management, Isometric, Base Building, Grand Strategy, Remake
Critics reviews
63 %
Recommend
PC Gamer
85/100
IGN
7.8/10
Eurogamer
7/10
User reviews

4/5

( 178 Reviews )

4

178 Reviews

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Product details
2014, Goldhawk Interactive, ...
System requirements
Windows 7, Intel 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Integrated Graphics, 3 GB HD space, Sound:Integrated, Monitor:1280...
Time to beat
33 hMain
52.5 h Main + Sides
94 h Completionist
46 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Description
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. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet, using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs and researching captured artefacts to learn about your foes and unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions.

Xenonauts is a spiritual successor to the classic X-Com strategy games from the 1990s. We aim to improve the graphics, add new content and streamline the interface whilst still retaining all of the key mechanics of the original games. Devoted fans should love this game, but we're also keen to introduce the joys of old-school grand strategy to a whole new generation of players who might not otherwise experience it!
  • Ground Combat: Xenonauts delivers tense turn-based combat across realistic, varied and fully-destructible battlefields, against almost fifty different variants of enemy. Missions range from capturing crashed UFOs or alien bases to defending cities (or even Xenonaut facilities) against alien attack. You'll experience the chill of encountering a new alien for the first time and the joys of test-firing a new weapon for the first time. Deeply asymmetric combat keeps the battles interesting - after all, you're fighting intergalactic invaders with 1970's ballistic technology!
  • Persistent Soldiers: Soldiers in Xenonauts are persistent from mission to mission, improving their stats and gaining ranks with combat experience - but their deaths are always only a single bad move away. You will grow to care about the brave men and women under your command as they slowly grow from green rookies into hardened veterans, but that only makes it more painful when their heroic tale is cruelly cut short by a burst of plasma fire...
  • Research Tree: Xenonauts has an extensive research tree with almost a hundred projects to unlock, each with its own unique description and painted artwork. It slowly reveals the intentions and origins of the invaders, while also unlocking new battlefield equipment, aircraft and vehicles for you to use as you harness alien technology and turn it against them.
Goodies
manual quick start guide wallpapers soundtrack (MP3) avatars
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Recommended system requirements:

Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
33 hMain
52.5 h Main + Sides
94 h Completionist
46 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Sci-fi
Tags:
Indie, Strategy, Atmospheric, 2D, Sci-fi, show 9 more... Turn-Based, Classic, Science, Tactical, Management, Isometric, Base Building, Grand Strategy, Remake
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04)
Release date:
{{'2014-06-16T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Goldhawk Interactive / Goldhawk Interactive
Size:
2.5 GB
Links:
Forum discussion
Game features
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
Critics reviews
74
Top Critic Average
63 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
PC Gamerby Ian Birnbaum
85/100
With deep strategic systems, omnipresent dread, and clean turn-based combat, Xenonauts is a triumph of rebooted game design.
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IGNby Dan Stapleton
7.8/10
An incredibly challenging recreation of the classic X-COM: UFO Defense, Xenonauts a little too loyal for its own good.
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Eurogamerby Paul Dean
7/10
This game rewards the most patient of tacticians. If that's you - if you're the person with enough time units of your own - it will certainly satisfy. Xenonauts knows exactly who its audience is, exactly what it's aiming for and, while it may never achieve a wider appeal, it will capture that audience in a very familiar act of alien abduction.
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User reviews

Posted on: June 17, 2014

Foonch

Verified owner

Games: 158 Reviews: 2

It's no X-Com

Played it for 20 minutes.. Got frustrated and bored. Bad art, Bad models. Reserving for shots never seemed to work. Original X-Com is still king... I really wanted this to be good....

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