Crosshair X is a PC utility rather than a standalone shooter: it places a custom crosshair over other games, including titles that do not provide one themselves. Its purpose is to let players tailor their on-screen aiming marker across first-person and third-person shooters, battle royales, survival games, and other genres.
Personalization is central to the experience. Players can build a reticle by adjusting lines, dot, outline, color, opacity, and animations, or choose from community-shared designs and Steam Workshop creations. The tool also supports uploading an image as a crosshair. Players can save and switch among designs, select which monitor displays the overlay, and set a keyboard shortcut to show or hide it; an optional behavior hides it when right-clicking to aim down sights.
Crosshair X does not describe a shared game lobby or one unified player population, because it is designed to accompany many separate PC games. A count associated with its Steam listing therefore concerns the utility itself, not the combined audiences of the games where players may use it. Its stated compatibility with fullscreen titles through the official Xbox Game Bar further underscores that the product functions as an overlay, rather than as a conventional game session.