X3: Reunion
Skip · Strategy · 2006
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 24.8h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB 3D card compatible with Direct X 9, 4.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in September 2024. It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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.
Value puts it in the top 43 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 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 Cosmonautica ($9.99, scores 2).
1 of the 263 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Players
8 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
TL;DR - Not recommended unless you're playing it for completion's sake. X2 and X3:Terran Conflict are better experiences. If you're exploring the X-Universe, I'd suggest playing X2, then skipping straight to Terran Conflict. My Steam hours are not correct as didn't run the game though Steam. I probably have 60+ hours of gametime. I completed the story and did all the missions to get my own HQ. I ran the EXE directly...
I would love to play this the concept is great but the mechanics are so bad I used to play one version of this and built a empire but this time or this version I give up. So I get pirate to bail out and I try to claim his ship but it wont let me then trying to get back in my ship it wont let me then I get so close I collide and die. This is just the last of many bugs that make the game not playable.
X3: Reunion from Egosoft is a space simulation that fully commits to the idea of player-driven freedom, offering a universe that feels less like a guided experience and more like an open-ended system waiting to be understood and shaped. Rather than funneling players through tightly scripted missions, it drops them into a sprawling network of sectors connected by jumpgates and lets them decide what kind of life they...
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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X3: Reunion scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2810/x3-reunionThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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