Xenonauts Reviews

We’ve rounded up a few more reviews for Xenonauts, the X-Com: UFO Defense spiritual successor from indie development studio Goldhawk Interactive. The game doesn’t seem to have captured the interest of the press quite yet, but the few reviews available are all positive.

Eurogamer, 7/10.

This game rewards the most patient of tacticians. If that’s you – if you’re the person with enough time units of your own – it will certainly satisfy. Xenonauts knows exactly who its audience is, exactly what it’s aiming for and, while it may never achieve a wider appeal, it will capture that audience in a very familiar act of alien abduction.

GameSpot, 8/10.

Xenonauts is an unlikely success, a challenging clone of a beloved classic with enough tweaks to entice fans and newcomers alike. It might look rather cheap at first glance, but underneath that rough exterior lies something special. Breaking the game down and looking at all of its pieces in isolation would do the game a disservice, because every facet helps focus the true luster of the whole.

Anything Geeky Reviewed, 9/10.

Xenonauts may be a game that has spent five years in the making, but to me it feels like its been twenty. We’ve all waited so long now for a truly great new XCOM game that we’ve often settled for poor imitations of the original idea. This is the true thing. Better than the original, better than the latest XCOM game and it will probably be the king of Turn Based Games for some years to come. If you love the original, you’ll love Xenonauts.