Focus on exploration, make money with illegal trading and theft, command large battle fleets or become the greatest entrepreneur ever. No matter how you start, you are always free to develop in any other direction. 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. Transition seamlessly from first-person action, boarding ships and visiting their bridges, to an expansive strategy and management simulation. In this universe, you can grow from being the lone pilot of a fighter ship, to managing a vast empire, commanding your fleets and designing colossal space stations. Thousands of ships and stations trade, mine and produce, all realistically simulated.

X4 is a living, breathing space sandbox running entirely on your PC.

The player as an individual may take part in these or other actions to gain notoriety or wealth, going so far as to be able to construct their own space installations and command fleets of starships, establishing what amounts to their own personal empire and dynamically and drastically altering the game world in the process. The game takes place in a universe that is active even when the player is not present, involving simulated trade, combat, piracy, and other features. There are various types of game scenarios that affects which ship the player will start with. Similar to previous titles in the X game series, X4: Foundations incorporates open-ended (or “sandbox”) gameplay.

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