Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation. Defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion. Using small squads of persistent soldiers to end the extraterrestrials. Recover their technology in turn-based ground combat. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet. Using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs and researching captured artefacts to learn about your foes. Unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions.     Key Features   Ground Combat: Xenonauts delivers tense turn-based combat across realistic. Varied and fully-destructible battlefields, against almost fifty different variants of enemy. Missions range from capturing crashed UFOs or alien bases. Defending cities (or even Xenonaut facilities) against alien attack. You'll experience the chill of encountering a new alien for the first time and the joys of test-firing a new weapon for the first time. Asymmetric combat keeps the battles interesting after all. You're fighting intergalactic invaders with 1970's ballistic technology!   Strategic Management: You will also be managing the defence of the planet. Dealing with the invading alien UFOs with your customisable interceptors. You need to balance the needs of your funding nations with your own. Your funds are limited - are you going to spend them on battlefield equipment, more scientists, or expanding your coverage of the planet? Your priorities must be balanced if you are to win the war.   Research Tree: Xenonauts has an extensive research tree with almost a hundred projects to unlock. Each with its own unique description and painted artwork. It reveals the intentions and origins of the invaders. While also unlocking new battlefield equipment. Plane and vehicles for you to use as you harness alien technology and turn it against them.   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...   Detailed, Emergent Simulation: Xenonauts contains no scripted missions. Broad rules setting the pace of the invasion. As such, no game plays out the same twice. If you shoot a Scout UFO down over a polar area, you get a Crash Site mission where you can capture a crashed Scout UFO in an Arctic tileset. Begin or start a battle at night and you'll be fighting the mission in the darkness with reduced sight range. If your base is attacked, you fight the defence in a perfect replica of your base. A lot of time has gone into weaving the two very different halves of the game together into something that feels both natural and enjoyable.

Xenonauts

Platform
steam

Region
Worldwide