

X4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the successful X series, brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. Fly every ship, EXPLORE space or manage an empire; TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD and THINK carefully, while you embark on an epic journey. In X4, you can start your journey from a number of different gamestarts and as a number of different characters, each with their own role, set of relationships and different ships and technologies to start with. No matter how you start, you are always free to develop in any other direction. Focus on exploration, make money with illegal trading and theft, command large battle fleets or become the greatest entrepreneur ever. It's all up to you to decide.
SimulatorStrategyActionScience fictionSandbox4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)space simulationflighttradingsteam trading cardseconomysteam achievementsxbox controller support for pcsteam cloudsteam workshopcontroller supportsteam deckai-generated voicesLinux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Character
Plot-driven, earnest, epic and cool.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the game
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- Egosoft
- Publisher
- Egosoft
- Released
- November 30, 2018
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Time to beat
- 66 h rushed · 341 h main story · 1434 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.7/10 from 21 ratings.
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