X4: Foundations
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…
X4: Foundations is a simulator developed by Egosoft, released 30 November 2018 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $8.00 at GreenManGaming. The main story takes about 341 hrs to finish.
What X4: Foundations is
X4: Foundations is a simulator game developed by Egosoft and released in 2018. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), action, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 172 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
X4: Foundations holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 341 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 1,434 hrs, roughly 4.2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $8.00, that works out to about $0.02 per hour of the main story, or $0.01 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-4590 3.3GHz or AMD equivalent, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5300 or equivalent (Vulkan 1.4 support required). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 35GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $8.00 at GreenManGaming, 84% below its usual price.
What it launched against
X4: Foundations launched on 30 November 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V and Hitman 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V, Hitman 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for X4: Foundations yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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