Xeno Crisis
Fair · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h 8.5h to 100%
- Value
- $7.40/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 218 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Xeno Crisis is an arena shooter in which up to two players take control of battle-hardened marines embarking on a deadly mission to confront an alien menace! Run and gun your way through thousands of adversaries, searching for survivors, and ultimately facing the origin of the outpost's demise.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 19 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Chippy ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Polygoneer ($4.99, scores 35).
More about Xeno Crisis
HowLongToBeat players log 2.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 9, 3.1 times as much.
At 2.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
84% start to 2% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's just like all the old arcade games you used to tolerate, especially in its love of stalling out by copy pasting the same room and encounter with 6 waves of identical reinforcements before finally letting a stage mercifully end.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TL;DR - Xenocrisis is a very good game that I cannot in any reasonable way, recommend to anyone other than masocore fanatics. It accomplishes what the developers set out to do, which is one way of measuring success in game development I suppose, but just because a game meets the devs' goals, doesn't mean it should actually be recommended to players. Predominantly, this is because the game is viciously difficult...
TLDR: A twin-stick shooter with satisfying gameplay and fantastic soundtrack. Devs understand how to make a good arcade game with high difficulty and no bs concentrated intense gaming. Achievements encourage you to learn the game and face harder challenges: felt very rewarding completing 100%. Totally worth it playing! An arcade game the way it should be: no time to explain - grab the gun and shoot the enemies...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Xeno Crisis scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/464260/xeno-crisisReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.