X Rebirth

Every market we collect.

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Hours played at review time, across 806 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

I went into this game looking for a Freelancer-like experience and thus focused on combat, exploration and the main story. From this perspective, I wasn’t too inconvenienced by the terrible UI and certain questionable design decisions. But let me be clear here: even with 45 bug-fix plus QoL mods to rid the game of pointless busywork, the interface was still borderline intolerable. Even a basic thing as navigating by using the map was anything but easy to use and straight-forward, and anything involving station management or global trade command was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nightmare! I did build only two stations in total, one of which is mandated by the story. Frustration was to be found, ranging from acquiring the required components (when most suppliers are hostile), personnel management, general and minute maintenance options as well as the game not teaching me a thing about any of this! Enjoy flying around blindly looking for a particular production specialist? Like pointless ferry missions? Not being able to cross-reference important information when setting up your station? Why are there so many different trade commodities and freighter types and which ones do I need? Why can the Albion Skunk only transport certain cargo? Oh, the architect can manage their building materials supply, but what’s involved to set it up? And did you know the station manager can buy their own drones, which are essential and cannot be equipped by default when setting up the construction site? It just happens to be buried in multiple menus and it super easy to overlook. These complaints extend to other aspects of the game. For instance, why does a shipyard allow me to order ships when they don’t have any drones in stock? Cannot function without cargo or mining drones at all! Getting and equipping drones after the fact is also a pain and didn’t even work for me. Ship in the same sector, in my squad, other shipyard had drones but still couldn’t equip. As is common in XR, there also wasn’t any contextual information about anything, such as error messages or other useful hints. Also, any ship movement takes a long time as even Out-of-Sector, docking & undocking is simulated for larger ships apparently. Many highways are one-way only, so there’s a lot of pointless looping involved for AI-controlled ships or the useless autopilot (it doesn’t use boost). Friendly wingman simply cannot keep up and are always miles behind. On the technical side, I did notice quite a few glitches with collision detection and other basics, but the game never hung or crashed on me, not even once. It has however not been prepared to be played at 4K… passable with some tweaking, but some parts of the interface simply do not scale. So yeah, this game certainly has problems. But since I tried to ignore trading for as much as possible, I still had a pretty decent time. XR looks stunning still, the soundscape was well-done and combat with mouse and keyboard worked really quite well… only wish there was more than one screen in the cockpit. Hard to see the radar when unimportant info (trade or reputation changes) get overlayed every 10 seconds or so. There’s plenty of random missions to do, though I did eventually tire of capital ship assault and the boarding mechanics. Fun enough to do the first couple of times (and an excellent source of income), but quickly turned into yet more busywork. Blasting fighter squadrons never got old. Exploration was okay too, but you really need both DLCs to get good mileage here. Sadly, these didn’t seem to tie into the main story at all (even when mentioning certain events or locales would have been logical). Even so, the overall story arc as well as voice acting was better executed than X3. My verdict: with some bugs and much of the busywork modded out, XR really wasn’t such a bad experience for me. But should you prefer trading and empire management over plain combat, better look to X4 instead! After all, the game did lay many of the foundations and one can see a direct lineage. Much of is is pretty rough here, though.