Xenonauts 2
Updated v7.24.2
Updated June 10, 2026 5:30 am (18 hours ago)
Xenonauts 2 is a simulation strategy game where players plan tactics, manage resources, and adapt to changing threats. It stands out for tactical depth, planning tension, and replayable decision-making, especially if you enjoy strategy experiences with a clear identity.
Xenonauts 2 overview
Xenonauts-2 is a strategic planetary defense simulator that puts you in charge of a clandestine military force attempting to protect the planet from extraterrestrial invasion. It is a hugely complex strategy / tactics game that gives you total control of your organization all the way from the command staff in your base down to the troops on the battlefield, updating and expanding the classic X-Com formula into something deeper and more distinctive!
- TACTICAL COMBAT: Xenonauts-2 delivers tense turn-based combat across realistic, varied and fully-destructible 3d battlefields. The combat is just as deep as it was in the first Xenonauts - but now you have a wider variety of missions to tackle, a larger selection of equipment to do it with, and more deadly enemies to face in battle!
- STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: You have been tasked with defending the planet against extraterrestial infiltration, trying to hold humanity together as the aliens try to spark a nuclear war that will end our species forever! The Geoscape is expanded and improved since Xenonauts 1, giving you more freedom and more choices to make. Your interceptors will need to defend your funding regions against UFO activity, but your soldiers can also intervene directly in funding regions as field agents to support your strategic goals.
- RESEARCH TREE: Xenonauts-2 has an even more extensive research tree than its predecessor, allowing the player to unlock new battlefield equipment and aircraft whilst slowly revealing the intentions and origins of the invaders. There is now more varied and exotic equipment for you to play with, and players now have the ability to further develop technology and equipment they have already researched - provided they can spare the scientists!
- PERSISTENT SOLDIERS: Soldiers in Xenonauts are persistent from mission to mission, improving their stats and gaining ranks with combat experience - but their deaths are always only a single bad move away. You will grow to care about the brave men and women under your command as they slowly grow from green rookies into hardened veterans, but that only makes it more painful when their heroic tale is cruelly cut short by a burst of plasma fire...
Will this game run on your PC?
Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: i5-4690 (or equivalent)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 770 (or equivalent)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: i5-7600 (or equivalent)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 970 (or equivalent)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Download, Install, and Play
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- Before you begin, make sure you have a supported client installed.
- Download Xenonauts 2 v7.24.2 (latest). Wait until it is 100% complete, then locate the files.
- Install the game:
- Run or double-click
setup_********.exe. - If a DLC folder is included, run any
.exefiles inside it as well.
- Run or double-click
- After the installation is complete, launch the game and start playing.
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Player Reactions and Ratings
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The game is still instable. Loading is painfull... 4 or 5 minutes to load a savegame, impossible to have fun in the tactical map because dying can happen anytime and reloading take forever. Red flag.
Game Update: v7.24.2 from June 5, 2026