Xenonauts 2
Skip · RPG · 2026
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 5,943
- Critics
- 82 players 1 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 36% RPG
Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 133 now
- Recent reviews
- 76% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 79% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 33 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 36 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Unity of Command II ($29.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Shadow Empire ($39.99, scores 34).
More about Xenonauts 2
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- 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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Xenonauts 2 scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-2Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.