X: Beyond the Frontier overview

Overview

X: Beyond the Frontier comes from Egosoft and is published by Egosoft. It arrived on Steam on Oct 8, 2010, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

X: Beyond the Frontier's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 1 players at 5 October 2026 - 00:45:42 UTC, with a tracked peak near 10. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 75% positive across 387 reviews.

Language and system requirements

X: Beyond the Frontier is available in 2 languages including:

4 regional rating boards including dejus, usk, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

X: Beyond the Frontier has sold up to 20,347 units and has 296 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $67,279. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

X: Beyond the Frontier overview details

X: Beyond the Frontier combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again. 500 Years later Kyle Brennan starts his journey by piloting an experimental ship equipped with a new piece of technology allowing it to cross vast distances on its own. However it malfunctions and traps him in a group of sectors inhabited by Aliens, hunted and with no way home, this is his story of survival... Beyond the Frontier... X: Beyond The Frontier is the first part in the X-Universe series of games developed by Egosoft. It tells the story of mankind's rise and fall in the universe, and the attempt by Kyle Brennan to help repopulate the stars using a new ship called the Experimental Shuttle, and how he became trapped in a closed group of sectors linked by a series of jumpgates, owing credits to an alien for helping to save him, and hunted by several people. Unknowingly, a group of secret service people are after him, a group who have tried to hide their races secret, that they are the descendants of a group of Humans who saved earth from the Terraformer fleet they created to help colonise the universe. Now with the Truth coming out, X: Beyond the Frontier allows the player to play as Kyle Brennan on his hunt to find a way home, whilst helping a group of people find the truth about their ancestry, and continue to help save earth from the Terraform…

SteamPulse editorial summary

X: Beyond the Frontier is listed as a game with $4.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Simulation and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 1 players at 5 October 2026 - 00:45:42 UTC, a tracked peak of 10, and 75% positive reviews.

Overview tags

SimulationSpaceStrategySci-fiSingleplayerSpace SimTradingEconomySandboxActionOpen WorldFlightExplorationAdventure

Support and legal notes

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