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X3: Reunion

Egosoft · 2006-07-21

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Nov 04, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 04, 2005 (Linux), Nov 04, 2005 (Mac)

X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.

X3: Reunion is a 2006 Strategy game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 739 reviews).

8
playing now
72%
positive of 743 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
68/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

X3: Reunion is a single-player space trading and combat video game developed by Egosoft and published by Deep Silver. It is the third installment in the X series and the sequel to X2: The Threat (2003), which in turn followed X: Beyond the Frontier (1999). X3: Reunion was released originally for Windows in 2005. The game was later ported to Mac OS X and Linux.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 14,119 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 30k–59k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 743 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GreenManGaming$0.90-91%
GOG$1.99-80%
GOG$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.80 at GreenManGaming (2022-05-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 104 of 142 observed days · $1.19 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1822026-09-15 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 9 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 16 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 14 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 11 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 16 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 14 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 9 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 13 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 8 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 9 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 13 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 10 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 12 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 11 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
637Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 54 · peak 139Dec 2012 — avg 28 · peak 73May 2013 — avg 40 · peak 125Oct 2013 — avg 41 · peak 96Mar 2014 — avg 25 · peak 52Aug 2014 — avg 28 · peak 54Jan 2015 — avg 31 · peak 69Jun 2015 — avg 20 · peak 45Nov 2015 — avg 20 · peak 44Apr 2016 — avg 19 · peak 46Sep 2016 — avg 19 · peak 40Feb 2017 — avg 17 · peak 39Jul 2017 — avg 16 · peak 39Dec 2017 — avg 23 · peak 72May 2018 — avg 14 · peak 34Oct 2018 — avg 17 · peak 40Mar 2019 — avg 18 · peak 47Aug 2019 — avg 13 · peak 32Jan 2020 — avg 14 · peak 41Jun 2020 — avg 12 · peak 34Nov 2020 — avg 12 · peak 35Apr 2021 — avg 13 · peak 31Sep 2021 — avg 9 · peak 24Feb 2022 — avg 12 · peak 31Jul 2022 — avg 9 · peak 26Dec 2022 — avg 13 · peak 26May 2023 — avg 9 · peak 22Oct 2023 — avg 12 · peak 32Mar 2024 — avg 8 · peak 21Aug 2024 — avg 12 · peak 27Jan 2025 — avg 14 · peak 34Jun 2025 — avg 9 · peak 25Nov 2025 — avg 9 · peak 22Apr 2026 — avg 14 · peak 29Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 27
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.71$0.802015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $4.992016-02-27 — best price $9.992016-12-28 — best price $9.992017-12-13 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-12-31 — best price $5.002019-06-18 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $6.992020-02-12 — best price $9.812020-04-20 — best price $8.992020-07-13 — best price $9.992020-08-20 — best price $8.892020-09-28 — best price $9.992020-11-07 — best price $5.992020-12-11 — best price $7.342021-01-25 — best price $9.992021-03-01 — best price $9.992021-04-15 — best price $8.382021-05-25 — best price $8.382021-08-19 — best price $1.992021-11-03 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-05-13 — best price $0.802022-08-22 — best price $1.992022-12-12 — best price $2.992023-04-04 — best price $9.992023-07-23 — best price $1.992023-12-06 — best price $9.992024-03-20 — best price $1.992024-08-01 — best price $1.992024-11-26 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-13 — best price $9.992026-02-02 — best price $9.992026-04-28 — best price $9.992026-07-31 — best price $0.942026-09-02 — best price $1.002026-09-27 — best price $1.992026-10-14 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

80212026-05-29 — 25 pageviews2026-06-02 — 23 pageviews2026-06-06 — 21 pageviews2026-06-10 — 39 pageviews2026-06-14 — 39 pageviews2026-06-18 — 43 pageviews2026-06-22 — 37 pageviews2026-06-26 — 47 pageviews2026-06-30 — 34 pageviews2026-07-04 — 40 pageviews2026-07-08 — 34 pageviews2026-07-12 — 38 pageviews2026-07-16 — 26 pageviews2026-07-20 — 36 pageviews2026-07-24 — 27 pageviews2026-07-28 — 40 pageviews2026-08-01 — 31 pageviews2026-08-05 — 39 pageviews2026-08-09 — 48 pageviews2026-08-13 — 27 pageviews2026-08-17 — 28 pageviews2026-08-21 — 26 pageviews2026-08-25 — 34 pageviews2026-08-29 — 28 pageviews2026-09-02 — 21 pageviews2026-09-06 — 28 pageviews2026-09-10 — 35 pageviews2026-09-14 — 32 pageviews2026-09-18 — 80 pageviews2026-09-22 — 27 pageviews2026-09-26 — 25 pageviews2026-09-30 — 30 pageviews2026-10-04 — 21 pageviews2026-10-07 — 26 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2013-05-07 (Steam store data)

Player tags

4XSpaceActionFlightSci-fiEconomySandboxTradingStrategySpace Sim

Census log

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

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