X4: Foundations for Windows

X4: Foundations is the latest in the popular X series of space / sandbox games, played as first-person action games in a living breathing universe, with the common slogan TRADE FIGHT BUILD THINK.

X4: Foundations is unique in its depth, simulating an entire universe of ships and NPC stations, forming a realistic economy. It consists of a vast universe, modeled from the bottom up. Hundreds of stations and thousands of ships trade goods among themselves. Prices change depending on supply and demand; resources are mined and processed in several stages. This economy is directly related to the modeling of large conflicts in the universe with dynamically acting factions. Each decision of the player can radically change the future of the gaming universe. Enter and live your own space adventure!

X4: Foundations has been significantly expanded with Update 4.0 – it’s the perfect time for space enthusiasts to rediscover or re-visit the largest space sandbox on this side of the galaxy! Hop aboard your ship and experience brand new features such as terraforming, new combat control capabilities, improved fleet management, and a new emergency ejection function. On the technical side, Update 4.00 adds volumetric fog effects, improves asteroid blur, and adds a visual shield impact effect.

Features of X4: Foundations

Start your journey
In X4, you can start your journey with several different game starts and as several different characters, each with their own role, set of relationships, and different ships and technologies to start with. No matter how you start, you can always develop in any other direction. Focus on research, make money from illegal trade and theft, command large combat fleets, or become the greatest entrepreneur in history. It all depends on you.

Fly every ship
X4 allows you to personally manage all ships. From small scouts of various classes of ships to the largest aircraft carrier, everything can be controlled from the cockpit or from the exterior. Much attention has been paid to the development of the X4 to achieve a smooth and immersive experience when navigating between ships. You can leave the ship, go down the stairs, go through the dock of a large space station to another ship that you may have parked there, and replace the pilot who was working for you by simply clicking on his chair.

Build space stations and upgrade your ships
Building space stations and factories has always been the backbone of the X Games. After making enough money through fighting or trading, most players want to create their own economy and start influencing the universe on a larger scale. In X4: Foundations, you can now be completely free and creative. Stations can be built from a variety of modules, be they production modules, living quarters, docks, or many other types of parts. A powerful new map system allows you to drag and drop and connect modules using a connection system to create your own unique creations. The ships also offer many upgrades. Engines, weapons and other equipment can be added to the graphics editor and seen on the ship.

Experience the most dynamic X universe ever
X4: Foundations is the first X game that allows our races and factions to freely build and expand their empires; the same flexibility the player has in creatively designing space stations from modular building blocks is also available to them. Races expand their empire based on supply and demand, resulting in an extremely dynamic universe where every player action can affect the course of the entire universe.

Run your empire in X4: Foundations with a powerful map
As you have more ships and many NPCs working for you as pilots, crews, or station managers, the map will become your preferred method of managing all of this. Ships can be ordered with simple mouse clicks and drag-and-drop operations to define their future path and commands. Graphically plan your trade routes, coordinate attacks with your entire fleet, manage a hierarchy, or send ships on remote exploration missions.

Immerse yourself in the most detailed X-economy ever
One of the key benefits of X games has always been a realistic, simulated economy. Goods produced by hundreds of stations and transported by thousands of ships are actually sold by NPCs, and prices are driven by a simulated economy. It is the foundation of our living and breathing universe. Now with X4: Foundations, we have taken another big step. For the first time in any X game, all parts of the NPC economy are created from resources.