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Xenonauts
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 eliminate the extraterrestrials and 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 and unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions.
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 eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
About Xenonauts
- Released
- July 2014
- Developer
- Goldhawk Interactive
- Engine
- Playground SDK
- Platforms
- Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac
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- Community AnnouncementsLauncher UpdateHello everyone - today's update is just a minor update that shouldn't affect gameplay in any way! As Xenonauts 2 will be launching into Early Access in the next couple of months, we've just replaced the old development update RSS feed in the Xenonauts launcher with an image that links through to the Steam page for the sequel (in case anyone that enjoyed the first game was not aware that the seq...
- Community AnnouncementsXenonauts-2 Kickstarter: 72 hours left!Another quick update to let everyone know that the Kickstarter for Xenonauts-2 has entered its final three days. You can see it here: It's been very successful, so huge thanks to anyone that backed us - we asked for £50,000 and were fully funded in 8 hours, and we're now well over 300% funded! Some cool stretch goals have already been unlocked (like weapon attachments and locational injuries in...
- Community AnnouncementsXenonauts-2 Kickstarter is live!If you played and enjoyed the original Xenonauts, you may be interested to know that the Kickstarter for the sequel Xenonauts-2 has now gone live: Full details of the new game are available on the Kickstarter page, along with a free alpha demo of a tactical combat mission - we've still got plenty of work left to do, but hopefully you can see the improvement! Xenonauts-2 is not a chronological s...
- Community AnnouncementsCloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community EditionTwo things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be able to access them if you want to play Xenonauts on a different machine. Hopefully that will make things more convenient for you guys! The second thing is the Community Edition of Xenonauts. A lot o...
- Community AnnouncementsCloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community EditionTwo things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be able to access them if you want to play Xenonauts on a different machine. Hopefully that will make things more convenient for you guys! The second thing is the Community Edition of Xenonauts. A lot o...
- Community AnnouncementsXenonauts V1.65 Stable Released!This is a brief update, as we've pushed V1.65 from the Experimental branch to the Stable branch. I've post the patch notes from V1.65 Experimental below so you can see what has changed, but the main reason we've pushed this update to Stable is that there's a Windows 10 specific bug that is fixed by V1.65 which is affecting some of our users. We'll be monitoring V1.65 to see if it causes any add...
- Mods indexed
- 234
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- 0
- Newest tracked
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Measured from the source's own counts, summed across every release.
- Xenonauts: Community EditionXenonauts: Community Edition (X:CE) is an unofficial community-made update for Xenonauts, produced by volunteer programmers who have been given access to the source code of the game by the developers of the original game (see details). X:CE is not only a mod, it is an update of the game itself, b...59.4k downloads
- X-Division 1.00.01 ( 1.00.11c )57.5k downloads
- Lore+Lore+ is a fanon Xenopedia addon which provides additional (and useful!) lore about alien classes and ufo missions, presented in the same conversational style as the main game. CREDITS: Artwork by: a333 and Henry Ponciano Writing and coding by myself.36.4k downloads
- Armoured AssaultArmoured Assault! - A Vehicle Rebalance Mod for Xenonauts Authored by Kabill Artwork by skaianDestiny --- Overview --- Armoured Assault! makes some various tweaks and changes to the Xenonaut combat vehicles making them a little tougher and adding a little differentiation between the different veh...33.1k downloads
- 120 degree view angle v1.1The angle of view most people is approximately equal to 120 degrees in the horizontal plane. And this is without turning your head. Ridiculous, when for a better overview, you must turn the whole body! Following this, the angles of view in the game were changed. Basic 90 > 120 Jackal 90 > 120 Wol...32.1k downloads
- Enhanced Crash SitesEnhanced Crash Sites v2.0 Authored by Kabill --- Overview --- Enhanced crash sites adds in smoke, fire, ground and prop damage in and around UFOs so as to make crash sites actually look like there has been a crash! --- Known Issues --- There are no current known issues. If you encounter any bugs...28.7k downloads
- Random Map Pack - Farm Edition--- Overview --- This mod adds hundreds of new farm maps comprised of random elements. --- Known Issues --- There are a few minor graphical issues and some slightly mis-placed tiles which require tidying up. None of these should be problematic for gameplay however. If you encounter any other issu...25.1k downloads
- Random Map Pack - Desert StyleRandom Map Pack - Desert Style v0.2 Authored by Kabill --- Overview --- This mod adds in a large number of desert maps comprised of random elements. --- Known Issues --- There are currently no known issues with the mod. If you encounter a bug or want to provide feedback please post in the comment...24.7k downloads
- Random Map Pack - Arctic CollectionRandom Map Pack - Arctic Collection v1.0 Authored by Kabill --- Overview --- This mod adds in a large number of arctic maps comprised entirely of randomised elements. --- Known Issues --- There are currently no known issues with this mod. If you encounter a bug or want to offer feedback, please p...23.7k downloads
- Reinforcements v1.1Reinforcements mod; A Total of 16 Xenonuat infantry can now ride in The Chinook, Shrike, and Valkyrie. Also 16 Xenonauts can go to deployments, or one tank and 9 Xenonaut Infantry. --------------------------------------------------------------------- - 04OCT2019 - Success no issues as of 11MAR202022.3k downloads
- NamesOfTheWorldNOTE: Uninstall all my other soldier names mods. This one includes all their content and is tweaked for compatibility. This mod is a merge of all my previous nationality mods as well as new nationalities and tweaks. As of version 1.19 these are the nationalities added or edited: Austrian Argentin...21.8k downloads
- Full Soviet Weapons Extension PackThis mod expands the set of ballistic nato weapons by their soviet counterparts. Simply put, it makes it possible for players to equip their soldiers with soviet and nato weapons during the same campaign. The soviet weapons have identical ballistic stats to the nato weapons (the only significant...21.7k downloads
- BarleyTroopsA small mod to boost soldier minimum stats from 35 to 45. As a rule of thumb you should not hire anyone with stats <40 in any case so this is just creating viable soldiers while not touching the max value of 65. Special forces troops also actually do have minimum requirements. Starting soldiers g...19.6k downloads
- Jsleezy's Real Fighter Portrait Pack18.6k downloads
- X-Division 1.00.00 - New DawnX-DIVISION VER: 1.00.11b Xenonauts Total Conversation Mod with X:CE Support X-Division is a Total Overhaul Mod for Xenonauts. This Mod got more then 3 year development and now it's 1.0. The point is creating a X-Com atmosphere from this great game, but we overwhelmed it. You can think this mod as...18.5k downloads
- Better FoxtrotAdds 2 Light Weapon mounts to the Foxtrot allowing it to perform better against smaller alien ships that can dodge and give it a little more damage dealing power against larger ships that can't. Note that installing this mod may cause problems with existing Foxtrots in saved games. I would recomm...16.9k downloads
- Fire in the Hole!Fire in the Hole! - Destructible UFOs and Dynamic UFO Assaults v3.1 Authored by Kabill Additional artwork by Skitso Thanks in particular to Silencer for bug reporting --- Overview --- Fire in the Hole allows UFO hulls to be destroyed in designated places to allow dynamic entry when assaulting UFO...15.8k downloads
- Tropical and Swamp TilesetThis mod adds tropical and swamp tilesets to the game. It covers parts of Southeastern United States, South and Central America, Central Africa, North and South East Australia and South East Asia. Tropical maps feature lots of dense vegetation with lots of trees obscuring the view, while swamp ma...15.1k downloads
- Larger Living QuartersThis mod increases Living Quarters' capacity from 35 to 40. It can be introduced mid-campaign, but already constructed Living Quarters will still have 35 capacity. At the start of a game you have 10 engineers, 10 scientists and 10 soldiers. I usually get 5 additional engineers and scientists, and...14.9k downloads
- Xenophobia14.9k downloads
- German Weapons PackThis mod adds some German weapons of Cold War era. They do not replace the default ones and also do not conflict with the weapons from FullSovietWeaponsExtensionPack. Currently there are : - H&K P7 (weapon.gw_pistol) - H&K MP5 (weapon.gw_submachinegun) - H&K G3 (weapon.gw_battlerifle) - MG3 (weap...14.5k downloads
- Deluxe Geoscape CheatCOMMANDER, TAKE OUR MONEY, ALL OF IT. STOP THE ALIENS! Ridiculous money (800 Million!!!) Tons of alloy/alenium loot from UFOs Better soldier stats Epic plane upgrades Luxury base buildings Efficient refuel and rearm for planes Mindcontrol psionics nefred to hell Super flares for night ops Quantum...13.6k downloads
- Jsleezy's Real Armors13.6k downloads
- More Civilians and Local ForcesDid you ever play your first terror mission only to be instantly swarmed and torn to shreds? This mod raises the civilian and local forces count on terror mission maps (soviettown and town) to 12 civilians and 8 local forces. This change rebalances the terror missions to give the aliens a bit of...13.1k downloads
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Why Xenonauts mods break
A mod is compiled against one version of a game. When the game updates, anything that reached into the parts that moved stops working, and it usually stops working silently rather than with a message that explains itself.
That is what the table above counts. It is not a guess: each row is a mod the community has reported as broken by that specific release. The number is a fair measure of how disruptive an update was, and it is the reason people delay updating a game they have modded heavily.
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No, and it never will. Every download link points at the author's own page on Nexus, GitHub, CurseForge or wherever they published it. We index the ecosystem; the files stay with the people who made them.
Where does the compatibility data come from?
From the communities that maintain it in the open, not from guesswork. Each claim carries how it is known, so a reported breakage is never presented as though the author said it.
Why is a mod listed as broken when it works for me?
Compatibility depends on your exact game version and the rest of your load order. A mod marked as broken in one release may work fine on an older one, which is exactly why the version is recorded next to the claim rather than a bare yes or no.