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Xenonauts
Developer Goldhawk Interactive
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… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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60 of 71 · most liked firstXenonauts 2 releases into 1.0 on April 2, 2026! This is a huge milestone for the game after a stream of major content updates. Thank you to @TurnBasedThursday.bsky.social for hosting us! #TurnBasedThursdayFest https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/538030/view/503977720511727976
unlabelledView post →I ran a last-minute rpg for my (adult) sons and some friends last week. Four steelworker Vietnam vets in 1972 go deer hunting in Pennsylvania and encounter aliens. Concept came from younger son watching The Deer Hunter and then playing Xenonauts. Used GURPS. It was a fun game. No Russian roulette.
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts 2 just left early access, and the v1.0 patch notes are ENORMOUS. Mostly balance. Sounds like they've made the early & late game a little tougher. It's a nice refinement over the first, which was like a polished up DOS-era XCom. Big squads and time units over Firaxis style boardgame design
unlabelledView post →This week, @len.bsky.social, @jonbolds.bsky.social, and Sin Vega strap in for Xenonauts 2, a sequel to a throwback to a classic tactics game. www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes...
unlabelledView post →Steam's tagging system is busted, but sometimes in wonderful ways. I look at the store page for Xenonauts 2, a classic DOS-style squad tactics game, and the 'Games Like This' segment recommends... My Little Pony: Murder Is Magic.
unlabelledView post →Losing my shit at how great Menace is shaping up - feels like *the* game to next sit alongside the likes of XCOM and Xenonauts, if the RPG/management side of the game is half as good as the combat I played at Gamescom www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
unlabelledView post →Heh-heh, this contains a bit of my art that's in Xenonauts 2 game - see the little people in the bottom left and right? Some classic Me(tm) rim lighting going on. Modelled the console-greeble off photos of Cold War era military command/control rooms. The chairs, however, are Herman Miller.
unlabelledView post →I really, really liked Xenonauts 2 despite bouncing off of the first one. Everyone who told me old X-COM was better was right, actually. www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
unlabelledView post →Just two more days until Xenonauts 2 launches into 1.0! 👽 Check out this release times map to see when the game will be available in your region. 📅 April 2, 2026 🕐 10 AM PDT | 1 PM EDT | 7 PM CEST https://store.steampowered.com/app/538030/Xenonauts_2/
unlabelledView post →Review (91%): While the learning curve might be steep at first, Xenonauts 2 offers incredibly rewarding tactical action for those willing to ascend it.
unlabelledView post →Oh yeaaah, I forgot Xenonauts (2) is the game where explosives always hit your friends xD
unlabelledView post →4 PC-games that have captivated me Dominions 6, Xenonauts(BPL edition veteran ironman), Morrowind, Elden Ring Pretty much always do have these installed. Some in very specific setups as i'm an advocate for playing a game exactly how you want too. #Gaming #PcGames #GameDev #Modding
unlabelledView post →...I think I like Xenonauts 1 more than 2. It hurts a little to realise that. The second game feels... dumbed down, to be more 'user friendly' - but user friendly is the fuck not what XCom games are. It also is now 3D, yet doesn't really do anything with that. Like, at all. It plays the same.
unlabelledView post →When I streamed a billion years ago, Xenonauts was a commonly played game for good reason
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts kind of does that, 1979 with some ultra-tech. I'd love to see that kind of aesthetic in a 3D game
unlabelledView post →The game (Xenonauts) starts in 1979. It's based on the original X-COM.
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts 2 just hit version 1.0 Goldhawk Interactive's Cold War alien invasion strategy game leaves early access after three years. #Retro #Xenonauts2 #Strategy #Turnbased #IndieGames
unlabelledView post →No game makes me say stuff out loud quite like an XCOM, in this case, Xenonauts 2. "I'm sorry, on turn 2, you're shooting at me from *inside my own Skyranger*?"
unlabelledView post →LIve with Xenonauts 2, thanks to a devkey from @hoodedhorse.bsky.social ! First look at this spiritual successor to one of my favorite games, XCOM. twitch.tv/jimorian #Xenonauts2 #Twitch #LiveStream #IndieGames #devkey
unlabelledView post →Been dwelling on this a little, as I think I may have done a bit of a rage-quit. The game in question was Xenonauts. I may go back to it later, but it has got me wanting to play the modern XCOM, so that's something good at least.
unlabelledView post →You might want to check out Xenonauts (and the Xenonauts 2 early access) if you’re looking for an XCOM game more like UFO Defense and less like Enemy Unknown.
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts | Day 1 | Chat, is this a retro game? I have never played this before... www.twitch.tv/WillSleepsNot youtu.be/pkN6XT25oO8 #Vtuber #Vsky #xenonauts
unlabelledView post →I finished Xenonauts 2 last night! Amazing game, loved my time with it, and I’m definitely going to be modding it in the near future!
unlabelledView post →finished my first ironman run of Xenonauts 2! This game had some flaws but it was loads of fun and an excellent entry in the genre, really excited to see how the expansion will turn out
unlabelledView post →Do it! And once you've done the main game, you have to get War of the Chosen. It really changes it up. Its a fab game. I'm playing Xenonauts 2 now to get my Xcom fix and replayed the first (new) Xcom again too with and all the DLC. I'm a bit obsessed with these games tbf.
unlabelledView post →Artwork done for the game Xenonauts 2 store.steampowered.com/app/538030/X... The sketch was done by the awesome Skwerl_art, I had to base my image on it . Not sure if I can post the sketch since NDA but it looked nuts #conceptart #gamedev #art #digitalart
unlabelledView post →Xcom-like game recommendation: Xenonauts 2 On sale currently on steam.
unlabelledView post →And they finally managed to make the Geoscape a very interesting part of the game, including more interactions with the various geographical factions! If you liked Xenonauts 1, just go for it. If you liked the new X-COM 1, go for it. There is no guerilla like in X-COM 2 and I’m glad for it :)
unlabelledView post →I backed the game waaaaay back in 2018 (I think) and I finally started a playthrough last month. I didn’t want to bother with early bugfixing 😅 And I’m happy to report it’s all I wanted of a Xenonauts sequel and more! Tech tree is huge, ground battles are intense, air combat is fun… 🤩
unlabelledView post →I don't disagree with the idea but xcom is a weird example because even xcomheads like myself will generally play stuff like Long War or Xenonauts instead of the original game!
unlabelledView post →Dopaminers 😉 Speaking of which, keep an eye out for this exact type of game with Sandustry: store.steampowered.com/app/2764460/... (published by Hooded Horse, also known for Manor Lords, Against the Storm, Menace, Xenonauts 2 etc) It's Terraria meets Factorio
unlabelledView post →OC loosely based off the tactical UFO response video game 'Xenonauts'. Jack Harper is a P.I. working out of Manhattan. Before that he spent years as an agent of the US government... first in Vietnam, then during the 1979 alien invasion... Where he became Xeno, a psychic capable near perfect ~
unlabelledView post →obviously there are outliers - Marathon is close to having actual Art Direction and look at how people have responded to it! The most "art direction" games currently are non-A/AA/AAA - things like Baionlenja, Xenonauts, Underspace, Funi Raccoon Game, Brigand Oxaca... (deliberately very wide list)
unlabelledView post →My main criticism of Xenonauts 2 is that it starts as a vastly more interesting game that does some really exciting things with the genre before dropping all of these things pretty quickly in the second act and becomes vastly less ambitious
unlabelledView post →Have played Titanium Court, Dap, Demon Dust, Crisol, Relooted, Xenonauts 2, Love Eternal, Labyrinth.OS and Moves of the Diamond Hand and can confirm they're very good. Labyrinth.OS is basically an old-school SNES-era Shin Megami Tensei game with big Gender Feels. Slow, heavy dungeon crawling.
unlabelledView post →Progression of the Xenonauts 2 air game is like Struggle to kill anything > Get missiles, become untouchable > UFOs advance, game is balanced for 3 hours > UFOs advance again, absolutely miserable mid game > get the tier 2 fighter, become untouchable again Still better than any mainline XCOM lol
unlabelledView post →👽 Xenonauts 2 has officially left Early Access: the early build launched in Summer 2023 from Goldhawk Interactive, and after nearly three years and 7 major updates the game hit version 1.0. A turn-based tactics game with RPG elements... #SteamAndEpic #Steam #Version #Early #Interactive #Xenonauts
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts 2 is a fine game but at least half of the time while playing it I just wish I was playing Menace instead. so I'll probably end up just doing that
unlabelledView post →Sorry I'm late! We're gonna' check out that game that looks kinda' like Xenonauts that we got all excited about. MENACE! They let me into the PR campaign woohoo! twitch.tv/wobblypython
unlabelledView post →Me at 20: "I just finished that game I bought yesterday. When does the next one come out?" Me now: "Xenonauts 2 is out? That's ridiculous - I've only finished the first one four times!"
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts 2 has been really fun so far Maybe xcom is actually my kind of game
unlabelledView post →is going live with a turn based game with aliens #xenonauts #xenonauts2 twitch.tv/bayboyzed
unlabelledView post →Sebillians, from the game Xenonauts~!
unlabelledView post →Heya Campers, and happy independance day! But don't start grilling just yet - the goddamn aliens are back again! Time to show them some fireworks, yeah? Starting a brand new alien-hunting strategy game tonight with Xenonauts 2, at 7pm UTC!
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts 2 Feels exactly the same as the original just sorta better in almost every way. I feel The game is really held back by sticking to conventions, like new enemies introduced every other mission, unique mission types, then after 6 hrs throw all that away to be the same mission every time. 1/2
unlabelledView post →come to Gary's Discord to hang out with all the strategy game nerds talking about Xenonauts, stay to listen to me rant about old movies & old Persona games
unlabelledView post →world's angriest store trolley (game is Xenonauts 2)
unlabelledView post →you gotta feel for the Xenonauts 2 guys in that the 10-15 years they spent developing the game, AI came along and adopted their entire art style
unlabelledView post →I say this after playing Xenonauts, Xcom 2 is very . . . chaotic. It feels like it's constantly throwing things at you. After playing Xenonauts and playing a game that will let an in-game week go by without any attacks it was weird to go to Xcom 2 where you get something every day that you HAVE to
unlabelledView post →I'm not usually a tactics game guy, but XCOM 2 is one of my favorite games ever made. It got me more into the genre, and I played Enemy Within, a bit of Phoenix Point, and struggled against Xenonauts because of it. Also go play Xenonauts. It's super hard, but very fun.
unlabelledView post →I'm going to play Xenonauts instead, since I remember that game trusting the player to not get bored and actually give you downtime between fights and much more strategic depth anyway.
unlabelledView post →It gets even more poignant I feel in Xenonauts. You don't get flag patches, but you've got a pretty even mix of NATO and WARPAC nationalities with your soldiers, despite the game very much being set during the Cold War
unlabelledView post →There's a game on Steam called Xenonauts that feels a lot like classic X-COM in execution. Might be worth checking out. It also has a sequel though it's been in Early Access for ages
unlabelledView post →Xenonauts (PC) Xenonauts is a tactical strategy game This is close to original X-COM, but with enough mechanical differences to make it its own thing. Air combat is much more involved, suppression mechanics, powerful vehicles, and shields. If you weren't into the XCOM remakes, give this a shot.
unlabelledView post →I'm in that really annoying stage of new game love where I want to play the game to the detriment of the rest of my life. Curse you, my lovely #Xenonauts
unlabelledView post →Today I learned that #UrbanStrife exists and now I am super hyped for the game. Post apocalyptic turn-based #rpg ! With #Xenonauts 2 in the pipeline as well, I better get back to finishing #Wasteland 2. https://store.steampowered.com/app/710230/Urban_Strife/ #gaming
unlabelledView post →78. Xenonauts (PC) I'm only 8 hours in but I've got the hang of the game. It's pretty good and I recommend it, but outside of the ground combat system with action points and the lore, I found myself just unengaged. The overall presentation and resource management aren't to my taste.
unlabelledView post →Looked up Xenonauts 2 after seeing that it's only $20 right now and I'm shocked that seemingly every game that wants to be X-Com (most egregiously those impostors called XCOM) forgot about the original's ballistics model. This game ran on a 386. Why do worse on purpose?
unlabelledView post →Prey good, mooncrash a great variation on the base game. It's old, but if you haven't played System Shock 2 it's a classic imsim. Someone did a remaster of the first one. Most of my faves are in other genres like Reccettear and Xenonauts, but if you haven't played Control it's by the Alan Wake guys
unlabelledView post →Rally Point: What's it like to be in charge of the Xenonauts? Um. Two? Commander Vega takes questions on 2023’s alien-fightin’ turn based strategy game Xenonauts 2.
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