X4: Foundations
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.
Looking for games like X4: Foundations? Explore its Gameplay DNA below to see what makes it tick, then browse similar games matched by mechanics, feel, and progression.
X4: Foundations is defined by its exploration, territory control, open world, sandbox, map scale, and spreadsheet territory. Games similar to X4: Foundations share these core gameplay traits — browse the matches below to find your next play.
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Games Like X4: Foundations
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic shares Open world, Sandbox and Territory control with X4: Foundations.
Manor Lords shares Open world, Sandbox and Territory control with X4: Foundations.
Interstellar Space: Genesis shares Exploration, Open world and Sandbox with X4: Foundations.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion shares Exploration, Sandbox and Map scale with X4: Foundations.
Norland shares Open world, Sandbox and Territory control with X4: Foundations.
Songs of Syx shares Open world, Sandbox and Territory control with X4: Foundations.
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