Xenonauts Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-27
- X-COM spiritual successor
- Engaging air combat system
- Deep strategic base management
- Bugs and stability problems
- Overpowered aliens and difficulty
- Steep learning curve
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,076
- Positive
- 4,40186.7%
- Negative
- 67513.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 345,094
- Estimated revenue
- $8,623,899
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 51.92%
- Estimated copies lost
- 340
- Estimated revenue lost
- $8,497
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 51.9% Avg playtime 0.7h | 10.4% Avg playtime 0.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 4617.6% Avg playtime 60.7h | 20980.1% Avg playtime 166.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 5.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,686.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
261 total
Organic purchasers20076.6%
Voted up: 81%
Key activations6123.4%
Voted up: 80%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
261 total
First impression0-2h114.21%
Voted up: 55%
Mid game2-10h3814.6%
Voted up: 68%
Late game10-20h4015.3%
Voted up: 78%
Endgame20h+17265.9%
Voted up: 85%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 80.5%
1 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,076 total.