Games Like X4: Foundations

X4: Foundations

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

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X3: Terran Conflict

86% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Trading Empires
  • …Construct Factory Networks
  • …Board Capital Ships
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X3: Reunion

72% 👍 OF 743
About This Game

X3: Reunion continues the epic space saga, blending deep space trading and intense real-time combat. Explore a vast universe, establish your empire, and shape the new frontier. With enhanced graphics and intricate economies, it's a journey of strategy, simulation, and interstellar intrigue.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Trade Across Sectors
  • …Build Factory Networks
  • …Command a Fleet
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Void Destroyer 2

80% 👍 OF 675
About This Game

Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Pilot Spacecraft
  • …Mine Asteroids
  • …Command Ship Fleets
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X2: The Threat

83% 👍 OF 534
About This Game

X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore 130 Sectors
  • …Mine Asteroid Ore
  • …Build Weapon Factories
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X: Beyond the Frontier

75% 👍 OF 398
About This Game

The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.

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Starpoint Gemini Warlords

73% 👍 OF 3.6K
About This Game

Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Pilot Capital Ships
  • …Command Battle Fleets
  • …Expand Star Territory
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Endless Sky

92% 👍 OF 7.1K
About This Game

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …bribe a hostile planet governor with something as small as chewing gum to land safely.
  • …use a luxury liner as a boarding ship, letting escorts disable targets so you can capture them with passenger bunks.
  • …provoke the Republic by capturing and selling their fighters until capital ships come after you and the whole faction turns hostile.
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Imperium Galactica

92% 👍 OF 159
About This Game

Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire. Now, it is crumbling. The aliens are restless. The oppressed are building armies. And a strange invader is headed for the heart of the Empire.

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ENDLESS Space™ 2

83% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Grow Vines Between Stars
  • …Terraform Distant Planets
  • …Shape Your Senate Laws
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Stellaris

86% 👍 OF 197K
About This Game

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate Space Anomalies
  • …Survey Uncharted Systems
  • …Design Custom Warships
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Rebel Galaxy

85% 👍 OF 8.4K
About This Game

Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Line Up Broadsides
  • …Mine Asteroids
  • …Trade Across Systems