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X: Beyond the Frontier cover art

X: Beyond the Frontier

Egosoft · 2010-10-08

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 08, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

1
playing now
75%
positive of 397 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

X: Beyond the Frontier is a video game created by Egosoft for Windows. The first of the X series, it is a space trading and combat simulator game, mostly set in the fictional X-Universe. Upon release, it was frequently compared to the older Elite.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 48% of 6,748 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 397 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GreenManGaming$0.68-86%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.68-86%
Humble Store$0.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.44 at GamesPlanet UK (2024-04-19) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 48 of 82 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

702026-08-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $2.492016-05-20 — best price $4.992017-03-12 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $3.492018-10-30 — best price $2.492019-04-01 — best price $2.292019-11-01 — best price $4.992020-02-10 — best price $4.412020-05-26 — best price $4.082020-07-09 — best price $1.002020-08-12 — best price $4.992020-09-21 — best price $4.992020-10-31 — best price $4.992020-12-04 — best price $4.992021-01-20 — best price $4.992021-02-26 — best price $4.992021-04-06 — best price $4.992021-05-24 — best price $4.992021-09-27 — best price $4.992021-12-16 — best price $1.202022-04-22 — best price $0.892022-08-19 — best price $0.992022-12-22 — best price $0.492023-04-19 — best price $4.992023-09-04 — best price $0.492024-01-22 — best price $4.992024-06-20 — best price $0.992024-11-21 — best price $0.992025-03-27 — best price $4.992025-07-31 — best price $0.742025-11-20 — best price $0.992026-04-01 — best price $4.992026-07-20 — best price $0.992026-08-25 — best price $0.68
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

66202026-05-30 — 33 pageviews2026-06-02 — 39 pageviews2026-06-05 — 42 pageviews2026-06-08 — 35 pageviews2026-06-11 — 61 pageviews2026-06-14 — 36 pageviews2026-06-17 — 39 pageviews2026-06-20 — 45 pageviews2026-06-23 — 37 pageviews2026-06-26 — 43 pageviews2026-06-29 — 33 pageviews2026-07-02 — 36 pageviews2026-07-05 — 66 pageviews2026-07-08 — 34 pageviews2026-07-11 — 31 pageviews2026-07-14 — 24 pageviews2026-07-17 — 45 pageviews2026-07-20 — 30 pageviews2026-07-23 — 28 pageviews2026-07-26 — 33 pageviews2026-07-29 — 28 pageviews2026-08-01 — 26 pageviews2026-08-04 — 43 pageviews2026-08-07 — 27 pageviews2026-08-10 — 45 pageviews2026-08-13 — 27 pageviews2026-08-16 — 42 pageviews2026-08-19 — 23 pageviews2026-08-22 — 27 pageviews2026-08-25 — 23 pageviews2026-08-27 — 24 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

SpaceActionFlightSci-fiEconomySandboxTradingStrategyAdventureSpace Sim

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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