Steam News announces that Xenonauts is now available on Steam as an early access release, offering eager players a crack at the work-in-progress versions of this xenophobic strategy game. Word is: "This project is a huge undertaking for an indie studio but by purchasing an Early Access copy, you are adding more funds to our development pot and helping us improve the final product. It saves you some money too, as we will be raising the price of the final game for release!" Here's the deal on the game and its XCOM-inspired aspirations:

Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.