X4: Foundations (2018)

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.

Simulator Strategy Action Science fiction Sandbox 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)space simulation flight trading steam trading cards economy steam achievements xbox controller support for pc steam cloud steam workshop controller support steam deck ai-generated voicesLinux, PC (Microsoft Windows)

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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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