X4: Foundations

November 30, 2018 Egosoft Egosoft
Simulator Strategy
Linux PC
About

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.
Storyline

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.
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Release Date November 30, 2018
Developer Egosoft
Publisher Egosoft
Game Modes Single player
Perspective First person
Themes Action, Science fiction, Sandbox, 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
X4: Foundations

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