X3: Terran Conflict
Worth it · Action · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.19.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.07/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 2,876
- Critics
- 73 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 48.4h
- To 100%
- 211h 4.4x the story
- Finish
- 13% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.59 July 2025
- Sale every
- 44d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 30 now
- Cheaper than
- 12% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
28% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.59, set in July 2025. It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Endless Sky (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats X4: Foundations ($9.99, scores 51).
More about X3: Terran Conflict
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 13 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 48.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 414 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 310 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
48.4 hours to finish it, 211 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I had been searching for a game in which I could relax and chill out, preferably with my own set of music, and I was fed up with my usual go-to games for this purpose. I needed something else entirely. That was the moment when I remembered I had a game exactly for that. Flying in space. That's the stuff! The X3 game for relaxing purposes? Insane, isn't it? Well, I'm not swayed that easily. Yeah, I was in the past...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Always loved this game. one of the better space games, old but definitely good and fun for many many many many hours :)
Compared to X2-The Threat and X3-Reunion, this one is even harder than X3-Reunion, more time consuming before you hardly notice any ranking improvements necessary for buying better goods/stations/ships. In X2 you were settled after the first 4-7 plot missions, had a good view on the universe and the ship speeds and maneuvrability felt better. This one just feels vast and soo very slow to do anything, like a time...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
X3: Terran Conflict scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2820/x3-terran-conflictReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.