Xenonauts 2 reaches 1.0

Xenonauts 2 left Early Access and hit version 1.0 on April 2, 2026, after nearly three years of public development. (store.steampowered.com) The game launched in Early Access on July 18, 2023, and developer Goldhawk Interactive said the run to 1.0 included seven major updates. Those updates added new alien races, new unidentified flying object types, more research projects, more battlefield equipment, and expanded mission content. (store.steampowered.com 1) (store.steampowered.com 2) Xenonauts 2 is a turn-based strategy game about running a multinational force against an alien invasion. Its Steam store page says players manage covert bases, research alien technology, and command both ground squads and interceptor aircraft in an alternate 2009 where the Cold War never ended. (store.steampowered.com) Goldhawk paired the 1.0 launch with a major content patch, version 7.18.3, and said the update was large enough to break saves from Milestone 6 or earlier. Players who wanted to finish older campaigns were told to use a Legacy branch. (goldhawkinteractive.com) The release also marked a handoff from feature-building to post-launch support. Goldhawk said the next few weeks would focus on stability fixes, then shift to a roadmap for additional content and modding tools. (goldhawkinteractive.com) That matters for a game that spent most of its life being shaped in public. Goldhawk said Early Access sales funded more content than originally planned, and the studio credited player bug reports and suggestions with helping define the final version. (goldhawkinteractive.com) The commercial response was immediate enough that the studio posted a follow-up note saying more than 30,000 people had bought the game since the Tuesday launch. In the same update, Goldhawk said player feedback was already surfacing both strengths and weak spots in the 1.0 build. (store.steampowered.com) Steam listed the launch with a 35 percent discount, dropping the price from $39.99 to $25.99 through April 16. By the weekend after release, the store page was already showing hotfixes and experimental builds for version 7.18.4 and 7.18.5. (store.steampowered.com) So 1.0 is the finish line for Early Access, not the end of work on Xenonauts 2. Goldhawk’s public plan now is bug-fixing first, then more updates and mod support after launch settles down. (goldhawkinteractive.com)