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Game2016
XenoShyft
Developer CMON
In this base-defense deck-building card game you and your teammates will have to work together to survive the continuous onslaught of powerful alien threats and horrors! From the Steam store page
99 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Jul 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
63
Fresh
61 positive · 36 negative
95% range 53–72%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 61 | 36 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
92 of 137 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 99 · most liked firstEdit: Played a couple of 3 player games on the recent April 12th patch. It's still a fun core game, but the glitches and game issues make it too frustrating. This game is hard, and requires every resource to be used effectively. If you can't use something because of a game glitch, it pretty much kills the enjoyment. So the game itself is great. I'm a veteran of tabletop and electronic card games of a similar nature, although I never played the tabletop version of Xenoshyft. The mechanics were…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This recommendation depends on how you intend to play this... If you are primarily interested in playing it single player, enjoy deck building, and like marines vs. aliens, then you are going to love this game! If you are expecting to multiplayer-on-demand then do not buy this game because the online player base simply can't sustain that kind of experience. If you are primarily planning on playing multiplayer-with-friends then it is a big MAYBE. Depending on your threshold for glitches.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game, but I did not. The interface is very clunky. And the balance is tight enough that mis-clicks or mis-applied abilities can ruin a game. The multiplayer is empty. The 9 rounds it takes to play through to a victory ends up feeling like a real slog. And you will have to hit a "Done" button like 20-30 times a turn. It is ridiculous. As near as I can tell the game is easier the more divisions (players) you have... and when playing single player you can control up to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like many have stated the interface is to bad, but I needed to try it for myself. I love the board game version. It is a intense white knuckle nail-biter; every choice you make has pros and cons. Each troop placement and equipment card matters. What partly helps out is your locations powers. The problem is the location powers are buggy and sometimes do not even work. This game does not get to the table enough and I would have really wanted a digital version. This is not a working game.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love that so many board/card games are being given digital versions these days, but this is the kind of release that mars the trend. To address my low playtime, my issues with this game are not related to the actual game mechanics of XenoShyft, but rather the technical and design choices made for this digital version. First off, there isn't even an exit button on the main menu (that I could see), so you have to ALT+F4 to exit if you're playing in fullscreen. (This is incorrect, as pointed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To start, this game isn't a walk in the park. After playing (at this point) four-five hours, I haven't won a single match even on the easiest difficulty and even when I was playing with two friends we failed countless times. However, the challenge makes it much more fun and honestly semi-addicting. The closer you get to success, the more you want to try again - and that's what led me to play from midnight to 4:30 am (only to stop because our play was getting sloppy due to exhaustion at that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR -- Too slow with willful timer that willfully makes you wait for the cards to resolve their actions. (Note "willful" and "willfully".) This greatly extends the length of the game---and even without it, the game is slow. I just minimize the screen while the game plays out...not-much-fun. ---- This game has a countdown timer between card plays...you do nothing while waiting for the "pause" timer to count down and the card to activate. It is like sitting at a red light...light turns…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off their feedback button needs to work.. theres a lot of bugs a glitches id liek to report.. such as players grabbing the same cards and xeno is spent but you dont have the card... the UI looking crowded and ugly... and many other things.. its still a very tough yet fun game though again it needs a lot of patching and fixing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They removed multiplayer??? What the ♥♥♥♥???
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am playing this game for the first time in 2023, and I love it. I have seen a lot of previous reviewers mention the amount of bugs and/or issues they have run into, but that has not been my experience. The game is fun, challenging, and stable. I encourage more people to give this game a shot. This is mostly a solo game though, so if you're looking for a multiplayer experience, there does not seem to be a very large community of active players.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's no in game resolution option. It's nearly impossible to see anything. The controls are also pretty ass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played about 10 rounds solo and have only made it to Wave 3 Round7 once. At the end of round 7 there were 2 enemies left but the game kept on spawning enemy cards and dealing damage to the base till it was destroyed. The only way I have been able to make progress is by using the science lab and loads of grenades. Every card and ability counts. I am playing on easy with 20 hitpoints for the base. I would not consider this easy. I do enjoy the intensity and the close combat of this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this title. It was originally a board game, and is about defending your base from attacks by alien creatures. Each game consists of nine waves, in which you can drop up to four soldiers to reveal and fight four aliens, one by one. Hopefully, you've chosen the right soldiers to defend your base, and equipped them in a way that plays to their strengths. Additionally, there are "instant" cards that can be played in the middle of the wave to bolster your soldiers in the heat of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to recommend this game. I still play it, hoping it'll get better. Fact is, the game is broken which is a shame because there is a great deck building game here that only needs some tinkering to be a solid "recommend" Here are the issues: Too many OP enemy cards - These games should be hard but a card that kills any troop it damages? That's just ONE example Bugged troop cards - Troops get "stuck" in your deck. You are unable to deploy or trade in for better units. Some really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good card game, has a great concept, and is pretty balanced actually. Haven't played much into it tbh, but, from someone who standardly hates cardgames, I found this one to be quite fun, and I found the challenge fair for the time I played. Will definantly be putting more into this, and I will give a more indepth review after I put a couple hours into it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend this game due to "Cross-Platform Multiplayer" being advertised, but online multiplayer is actually disabled in-game when logging in thru your Asmodee account. If this is ever fixed in the future, then I'll revise my review accordingly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The interface for this game is very frustrating. There are many card effects that are supposed to be about careful planning where getting things in the right order maters a lot. But sometimes it's not at all clear where you need to click so often a single missed click can completely derail your plans with no undo function. If it was really great below that interface it might be fun all the same but the deck builder game itself is pretty bland.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play this solo. It's a fun port of a co-op, deck building, alien killing board game where all the players have a lane that they have to defend by using yellow crystals to buy troops and upgrades. That's pretty much it. If you're solo, you can play a single lane or multiple. Lanes can help each other by using the cards in their hand. It's difficult. Your troops will pretty much always lose if you let them trade with the aliens, so you have to be smart and use instant use items/armor and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unforgiving, but every win feels like it was earned. Newbies will find it very difficult until they start to understand the various synergies on offer with division, troops, abilities and when to pop them. It'd be nice if it was cross platform with the mobile app versions too. Interface is a bit clunky, but it feels like the desire was to stop misclicks. Take a little time over what you are doing. This is a direct translation of the board game. I have to say it's nice to play this without…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Same as the board game. Only cheaper. Still hard as ♥♥♥♥.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the physical version of this game but the bugs killed yet another attempt for me to enjoy the digital version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the first game i do not know what is a bigger treat aliens or the UI. After first game i made to the 9 wave and just skip because i do not care if i lose or win. Whoever designed the UI should be fired and if he does not work for the company should be hired and fired again. This would be a good game and even worth buying if the UI would be fixed(or rather redesigned from scratch).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Xenoshyft once and foremost is a deck building game which shines mostly in multiplayer. While the amount of total cards is highly limited, it has significant tactical depth and probably half of the existing cards are enemies the player is trying to defend against, meaning there's a lot of variety and tactical difference to the approach one has to take. Units can be upgraded to veteran status and additionally equipped with a total of four different kinds of equipment slots, meaning to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept of this game is initially very intriguing and fun. Where the significant issues come to light is when you get further into wave 2 and then ultimately wave 3. I am all for difficulty and a challenge that requires strategy, however, after playing several times you quickly realize that strategy becomes nullified. How does the game nullify the initial strategy? The enemies becomes so all powerful in wave 3 that their special effects (reveal) consider near all strategies you may have.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In life, you feel sad that the world is cruel and everything is unforgiving. In this game, you either rage or laugh when you know it is over-unforgiving. This game needs re-balancing, it is already so hard when you play easy mode...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER?!? Xenoshyft: The Video Game is a Recreation of the Board Game Variation, a Kickstarter project that was successfully funded and moved on into Retail. The game plays almost identically to its Tabletop Component. You are charged with the defense of your Mining Base while they extract Xenosanthem, a Mineral that powers all of Mankind's machines in the future of today's world, typically found on foreign planets, the presence of such produces high levels of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was disappointed. This is not a full review but the result of very bad impressions. The GOOD: ++ interested in this game because it "mentions" deckbuilding. ++ interested in this game because coop. Please note I do not own the boardgame. The BAD: -- Tutorial is unclear and actually not working well. -- card illustrations are a very common. --- card mechanics are very very simplistic. ---- There is NO deckbuilding - you don't build you deck. this is a card game, yes, but you don't do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →didn't encounter any technical issue, and the UI is fine (doesn't irritate me at least)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I encountered the bug where I could not deploy the same ranger 2 rounds in a row, and in the 2nd round I also had a militia i could not deploy. In that same round I had a vindicator armor that I could not use after a trooper died. I checked the steam community and found these bugs were reported back in late March and early April, 3 months ago. The devs are unwilling to fix bugs, so do not buy this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has several severe bugs such as troops not being deployable and the Eater Of Hope's reveal ability not doing anything and simply stalling the game forever. In addition most of the enemy abilities are ZERO fun as they are overpowered to the point that ANY strategy you come up with quickly be nullified without ANY recourse. Literally they have cards that can kill any soldier with 1 hit no matter what you do. It is a poorly designed and programmed game. DO NOT PURCHASE!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too simplistic and luck-based. One can only plan and strategize to a very limited degree to keep The Hive at bay. I was expecting a strategy game with a bit more meat to it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A card game with a lot to it! Its a rotating board with different things to do and equip. Hard gameplay, make sure you do the tutorial to get the most from this game! https://youtu.be/n1ARWDh1R5g
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UI really kills it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is actually amazing. We really enjoyed the board game, and this is just like the board game except I can zoom in on the cards and read them better. There doesn't appear to be a thriving online community to play this with, but as long as you would like to go solo or only plan on playing with your friends, you are good to go.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played XenoShyft before as a physical board game and I was really excited to have it on PC. I bought the game and all the expansions, loaded the game, and started playing. I was immediately frustrated by the game's UI. At first I didn't go through the tutorial because I already knew how to play so I figured it would be easy enough to figure out the UI as I went. Most of the acquiring phase was easy enough to figure out, but I did have a little trouble trying to figure out when to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exactly what I was looking for, a difficult card game I can play by myself or localy with friends at an affordable price. You can zoom and the cards look lovely. My one con would be th UI is slightly unresponsive. If you like this for solo play I also recommend the first Chainsaw Warrior game. Its also a brutal card game AND has dice!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They released an update that supposedly fixed the bug that didn't allow people to play cards in multiplayer, but the problem is still there. We'll go into combat mode, and the units just sit there. They don't fight, and nothing happens. Neither can cancel a turn, so we basically have to quit. We have gotten to wave 3, round 8, and basically had to start over when we were winning immensely. This new patch did NOTHING. And this bug happens in solo too, so it isn't a multiplayer lag. My friend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most frustrating game ever but for some strange reason I cant stop playing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whooof tah. Normally I don't write bad reviews for games but this one deserved it. Starting with needing to make an account to play online is the first red flag. Made one and still couldn't play. Tried the tutorial and that attempts to steer you in the right direction but I couldn't follow it. I tried to refund the game but I had it for too long and now I'm stuck with it. There is a game somewhere inside of this, but it feels like they did everything in their power to prevent you from playing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →sure! they're mostly just adaptations of existing tabletop games though. Tanto Cuore, XenoShyft, Aeon's End, that kind of thing I'm actually not personally aware of a purely digital fixed market game beyond Party House, but I'd be surprised if some didn't exist and I just missed them
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little game. The implementation is fine as well. There are some balance issues, though. There is little up-front information, which makes adaptation irrelevant, and direct damage is so powerful as to invalidate practically any other option, which makes a shallow game even more so. Still I enjoyed the core mechanics, a variant (I can't say a refinement, despite being far newer) of Legendary Encounters.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The theme would have so much potential, but ... hell ... this game is so repetitive, static, unrewarding. Got this in a bundle. Some (or many?) game mechanics are chosen badly. It's just miserable. Additionally the UI feels very clunky.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NorTec General, baby! I have all the badges. ("Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!") I do enjoy this game. I prefer it as a cooperative game so avoid the Dreadmire DLC until the bug get fixed that won't let you play coop.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this on sale for $4. At that price the game's a win. You'll need to figure out the best screen size because it'll have some dead space on the sides. There aren't too many cards in the game you are able to figure them out after your first couple games. People say more divisions (players) is easier but don't complicate it on your first runs. If you're adept at deck building the easy levels should just warm you up for a real game. Normal shouldn't be too difficult to post wins, and hard will…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy to understand rules and good play for multiplayer. Also at $10 for the base game plus $10 for all of the expansions it makes for an affordable multiplayer experience. Have played alot of deckbuilder games and this is one of the few coop ones.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5 min. to learn. 15 min. per play. 5 hours of play to accumulate 20-something defeats [1 lane hard solo mode, have yet to drag friends into this]. Would still start it up to try it again. It is a nicely contained package and doesn't need more of anything.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →find it fun but hard solo game when using 1 lane
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was having a good time with this game until I attempted to play multiplayer. Could not get passed the login screen. If you are interested in the multiplayer for this game (which seems like the main draw), i would suggest skipping this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's so slow and glitchy, and thats just solo. The only plus side is not spending 4x more for the board game, on the other hand, the board game takes about 10-20 seconds per round vs 5-8 minutes with the computer/glitches/lazy coding/etc....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy the physical version as well as the digital version for solo play. Can't speak to online multi, but pass n play works just fine. Some small things, like having to hit undo to edit some kinds of troops deployments and too many clicks for certain things are present, but they're not bad. The game is hard. I got the complete edition, and the hive expansion makes it... much harder. The new enemies make surviving really difficult. I do not recommend using that one, personally. Psychogenics…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too many damn bugs, and not in the cool, ingame way. Avoid!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok so this game is very hard, but as a veteran of deck building games I'm fairly happy with the way it works. I'd say you could really do with getting the DLC (but I got the lot during the Steam Sale so not too much more). Certainly not for those that like an easy game, but rewarding when you finally beat the deck :-)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing this game would be amazing if it didn't freeze every time we were doing half decently. Please fix the freezing that we suffer in multiplayer! Edit: 12\2\2016 There was an attempt to fix said lack of playability literally the day after I wrote the review initially. While I applaud the attempt to fix the issue, The new time bar for progressing the game can some times freeze, which unfortunately causes the game to not progress. We've made sure that everyone had a ready status in our…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Video review here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkBxZAVCZQ short version + Good Co-op board game /deck builder + Hard to beat, but fun when you win + solo play or pass and play work well - Some bugs in multiplayer (some have been patched but i still see reports of them) - Harder when cummication is limited ( or bugs hit) overal 7.5/10 a good buy if your need a co-op board game or like games with a lot of planing form turn to turn
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great price compare to the board game. You get all the expansions with the base game for 10-15$ compare to 80-100$ for the physical copy. Great if you were thinking to buy this just for solo. The game has some nice effects and seems to be well polished. The only gripe I have is that it sometimes does not let you end the turn thus you are stuck. Overall great game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great card game. It's been available on mobile for a while now and I have played a ton on tablets. I like it enough to buy it a second time on Steam which should prove my opinion isn't just talk. Looking forward to an influx of new players via cross platform multi. This is better than most Unity ports, having a full range of resolution options unlike some. Watch out for Berserkers!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enjoy it, has a couple of bugs to work out and I wish the matchmaking was a little better setup but the game itself is solid.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your goal is to survive long enough for the mining crew to carve out enough Xenosathem to turn a profit. It's the stuff that makes all the fancy tech and FTL travel possible, so it's pretty valuable. Given that, you might be wondering why you don't get the fancy-schmancy power armor at the beginning. You might also be wondering how some angry alien critters can compete against guns. A bit of literature for your edification.... "On my first tour of duty, my commanding officer was turned into a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →XenoShyft is a PC port of a mobile port of a physical deckbuilding game called XenoShyft: Onslaught. The deckbuilding game itself was the result of a successful Kickstarter, raising a touch over $242,000. The deckbuilder is a tough as nails cooperative romp that has been overall well received, currently holding a rating of 7.21 on BGG. All of that being said I do feel this is a game better played in it's physical form. There's just something about the drawing of cards and having friends around…
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