X: Beyond the Frontier

X: Beyond the Frontier follows Kyle Brennan, a pilot stranded far from home in a group of alien-inhabited sectors. You play as Kyle aboard the Experimental Shuttle, trying to find a way back while helping uncover the truth about humanity’s past and continuing to fight the Terraformers, now known as the Xenon.

Kyle’s story

Humanity once used giant automated machines to colonise other worlds. A fault in their programming turned the machines against humanity, forcing people to trap them to protect Earth and remain on the planet. Five hundred years later, Kyle’s Experimental Shuttle malfunctions while using new technology to cross vast distances on its own, leaving him trapped in sectors connected by jumpgates.

Kyle owes credits to an alien who helped save him and is hunted by several people, including a secret service group trying to hide the truth about its race: its members are descended from the humans who saved Earth from the Terraformer fleet. As Kyle searches for a way home, he helps people discover their ancestry and continues the fight against the Xenon.

Trade and build

You can trade across more than 50 sectors, dealing in over 50 different goods. Five different races offer dozens of ship upgrades, and you can adapt your trading empire to the needs of each sector’s local economy. You can also construct stations and build a production empire.

Fight and survive

You can search for hostile pirates and survive attacks by the Xenon. The game is the first part of the X-Universe series and tells the story of humanity’s rise and fall in the universe.