X Rebirth
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 69.3h
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 44% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 84 times in the 13 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.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, X3: Terran Conflict ($15.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Kinetic Void ($9.99, scores 0).
The press gave it 33; the people who bought it give it 44 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 10 percent of players ever finish it. On a 69.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 2 of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 17 percent of the 635 reviews written there were positive, against 44 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 10% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 69.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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
A game so bad, Egosoft apologized for making and releasing it. (no cap, they actually apologized for the absolutely terrible launch state and production, then released x4 foundations fixing most of the game for more money.) this is the game that pretty much stopped me from purchasing anything before either testing the game out, or having a working copy, no pre orders anymore. even X4 is not recommended. X3TC and AP...
Not Recommended. This is the game that made me stop pre-ordering forever. This is made by the same team from the great X3 games. It wasn't rushed by a new team or an outside publisher, it was just a massive unforced error. Ripping out what made X special and replaced it with broken trading/commands (XML save edits required), endless looping traffic-jam AI, tedious copy-pasted station walking with repetitive...
I like this game a lot. However, i did use a fair amount of mods in my playthrough. Hopefully i will get around to play it some more in the future.
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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X Rebirth scores 2/100 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/2870/x-rebirthThe 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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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