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X4: Foundations

79% positive of 25,381 Steam reviews

To finish: 66 h
Released: 2018
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, GOG

Made by Egosoft.

About the game

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Tagged by players

4X
Space Sim
Trading
Flight
Grand Strategy
Space
Economy
Sandbox
Open World
Immersive Sim
Management
Sci-fi

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What players say

Recommended
Since 9.0 I have felt more and more sad about the underlying changes to the jobs.xml for Xenon spawning; So even if you wipe them from the whole map the game's logic forces them to spawn in any random system without ships or regular game rules infrastructure and it does this instead: Since you want to look under the hood at how the code forces this "stupid shit" to happen, this is what the actual architecture looks…
687 h played when written. 16 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I really wanted to like this game, the interface is just plain bad, and non-intuitive. I cannot even plan the game basic functions are hidden, and the tutorials tell you to take actions that are not explained, and to select things on the screen that without guidance to what that thing is. it is slow paced, and the ship is overly complicated to control.
37 h played when written. 30 found it helpful.
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