Xenonauts 2
Skip · RPG · 2026
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon R7 260X (2 GB), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Steel Division 2 ($39.99, scores 41) beats it on value, while it beats ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV ($59.99, scores 9).
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 292 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
161 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Xenonauts 2 scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/538030/xenonauts-2The 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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