X: Beyond the Frontier
Skip · Strategy · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.03/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 401
- Critics
- 67 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 26% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.9h
- To 100%
- 84.5h 2.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 December 2022
- Sale every
- 43d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 57% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was December 2022. It has been discounted 86 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 26 percent. Among the games that feel like it, X3: Terran Conflict ($3.19, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Cosmonautica ($9.99, scores 2).
More about X: Beyond the Frontier
67 from critics against 75 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
30.9 hours to finish it, 85 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 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
Recommended for fans of the X-Universe or anyone who enjoys chill trading sims. X: Beyond the Frontier is definitely showing its age. The graphics are old, the UI is clunky, and you're stuck with a single ship for the entire game. But once you settle in, it becomes a surprisingly relaxing trading and factory building experience. You start with basically nothing and slowly trade your way up, upgrading your one ship...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Decided to just test this game to see where the X universe started as im new to the franchise and x4, what i thought was just gonna be a half hour for trying out of what i presumed was the basic formula of X but then i honestly got hooked. after 103 hours completed the main mission, and thinking about doing X tension next... it is a bit grindy but honestly not bad for a game from 1999
This was an important game. Do not get my "not recommended" wrong. I enjoyed it back in the day and even when I replayed it. The truth is, though: Every other game in the X Series: X-Tension X² x³ X³-TC X⁴ is better, And even if u want a slow and restricting game with unintuitive input, just go for x-rebirth.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, 4 MB DirectX-compliant video card, 358 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
X: Beyond the Frontier scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2840/x-beyond-the-frontierReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.