X3: Reunion
Released Jul 2006
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.
72% positive · 735 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
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Evaluation
X3: Reunion launched on July 21, 2006 and has long since completed its content lifecycle. The game received one DLC — the Bonus Package, released on May 7, 2013 — which is the last piece of add-on content ever released for it. The store description highlights the X3 2.0: Bala Gi Research Missions update as a notable addition, indicating that was a significant post-launch update in the game's earlier life. No further DLC has been announced or listed.
The most recent developer communication (September 12, 2023) was a maintenance patch prepared for Steam's 20th Anniversary celebration — fixing resolution support, controller input, and crash bugs — along with an 80% discount. Importantly, in that same post Egosoft directed attention toward X4: Foundations as their actively developed current title, framing X3: Reunion purely as a legacy game being kept in good working order. There is no suggestion of any new content planned for X3: Reunion.
The game is a complete, finished product. Anyone interested in it can buy and play it knowing the full content is available.
Evidence
Egosoft patched X3: Reunion for Steam's 20th Anniversary event (resolution fixes, crash fixes, controller support) and promoted an 80% discount. The post redirects players interested in new content toward X4: Foundations, treating X3: Reunion as a legacy title.
X3: Reunion Bonus Package released on May 7, 2013 — the only DLC for the game, and it has shipped.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Egosoft
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
The Sequel to the award winning X²: The Threat introduces a new 3D engine as well as a new story, new ships and a new gameplay to greatly increase the variety in the X-universe. The economy of X³: Reunion is more complex than anything seen in the X-universe before. Factories are being built by NPCs, wars can affect the global economy, NPCs can trade freely and pirates behave far more realistically.
The Technology: Extensive development has gone into the X³ engine, making full use of DirectX 9 technology, to create dramatic visual effects and stunningly realistic starships. Coupled with the massively enhanced A.L. (Artificial Life) system, X³: Reunion presents players with an ever changing, evolving universe; where a player's actions really can shape the future of the universe.
The new X³ 2.0: Bala Gi Research Missions: The X³ 2.0: Bala Gi Research Missions offers a host of new features and missions, allowing the player to delve deeper than ever before into the X universe.
Space just got a whole lot bigger with the addition of two new sectors and the introduction of the gargantuan Player HQ which allows many exciting new features including the ability to build your own ships and even give them customized space paint finishes. In addition to the new M7 battleship, there is an assortment of new weapons and onboard ship devices to use and explore.
The Technology: Extensive development has gone into the X³ engine, making full use of DirectX 9 technology, to create dramatic visual effects and stunningly realistic starships. Coupled with the massively enhanced A.L. (Artificial Life) system, X³: Reunion presents players with an ever changing, evolving universe; where a player's actions really can shape the future of the universe.
The new X³ 2.0: Bala Gi Research Missions: The X³ 2.0: Bala Gi Research Missions offers a host of new features and missions, allowing the player to delve deeper than ever before into the X universe.
Space just got a whole lot bigger with the addition of two new sectors and the introduction of the gargantuan Player HQ which allows many exciting new features including the ability to build your own ships and even give them customized space paint finishes. In addition to the new M7 battleship, there is an assortment of new weapons and onboard ship devices to use and explore.
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Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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