X2: The Threat
Fair · Strategy · 2006
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 35.1h
- Value
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32MB 3D card compatible with Direct X 8.1, 1.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
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The value story
February 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 86 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, X3: Terran Conflict ($15.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats X4: Foundations ($49.99, scores 60).
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 216 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 35.1 hours; clearing it takes 474, which is 14 times the campaign.
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Recommended for anyone who wants a great blend of story, sandbox, and classic X-Universe empire building. I am playing through all the X-Universe games and finished my playthrough of X2: The Threat. It's a large leap forward from X-Tension. The graphics and overall style feel like a big jump in quality, and the presentation holds up surprisingly well for its age. It also combines a proper storyline with the...
have the original disk as well as steam version. a good fun game and time sink. Bad thing it wasnt made for win 11. Occasional crashes on the video cutscenes. Tip, ddont give up try to take a run at it from diff gates and directions to avoid crashes. On the paranid quest at priest rings i turned on Video record in options and poof i got past the repeated crash on exiting the station. After you buy the goods from the...
This is way too good. Picked this up when the Steam Summer sale started a week ago, first X game I have played, and can easily say this is the most fun I have had for under $2, at $1.12 Australian dollars this is an absolute steal. Well done to the team at EgoSoft for creating such an awesome space game, definitely will be buying more games in the X series.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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X2: The Threat scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2800/x2-the-threatThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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