X4: Foundations

This game is horrifically obtuse. It does not have a learning curve. It has a ten mile high learning cliff without any hand or foot holds whatsoever. I have never been so frustrated. Here's hoping it's worth it.

Hardly any tutorial. Forget everything you thought you knew about space games. It seems that the game has a Contrarian AI that makes it seem that if you make a move it is wrong and you have to take many other steps to reach a goal that should be simple. Achievements are overly complicated. You have to have infinite patience and be highly intelligent to play this game. I found myself using google almost every step of the way and it was usually wrong. Other than that it's a great game.

why did you have to ruin your game with ai

Im really trying to like it but the lack of intuitive UI or explanations on where to go for certain things I really making it hard to want to keep playing.

Great sandbox game that allows you to go about things at your own pace, Main strength X4 offers is the simulation of the logistics chain. Every good is simulated and has a purpose. I.e if you are a pirate and case a hauler to see what goods hes carrying - those goods were actually mined by npc miner ship at some point, brough to refining and possibly hauled to some other station to aid in one of many productions chains this game has to offer. Every npc ship pilot in this game is doing some assignment for some npc station that belongs and follows order for some npc faction, none of what you see is just for show. Before long, you end up building your own stations and production chains, competing against npc markets. Eventually you end up running your own military industrial complex, you can try and conquer everything, you can profit by supplying goods to both factions that are at was with each other, or focus on eliminating rogue AI threat that are slowly building up their forced in the corners of gate network (gamemap), Or you can just ignore all of that and mine some rocks, be a merc or a pirate and do some generic quests or poorly written and voice acted story missions,

Mostly impossible

Good Game, but the on-boarding could be a lot smother

One of my favorite games of all time, and it just keeps getting better.

Ehhhhhhhhhh, choosing a recommendation was difficult. I truly believe there's an amazing game here, even one that I would absolutely enjoy for thousands of hours. But after 80 hours of trying desperately to have that fun, I had to uninstall. It's like going on a hike in your favorite place ever while eating unlimited ice cream cones, but your shoes are 50 pounds and it's raining. The learning curve is enormous and the interface is difficult. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I gave it an honest go. With all this being said, there's definitely a great game under there, and if you think you'd enjoy this type of game, I would recommend you give it a try. Plenty of people do love this game, but it was just too much of a slog for me.

Если у вас нет бэкграунда с предыдущими частями, вас ожидает высокий порог вхождения. Всё ок, только не хватает секси инопланетянок, уж больно все уродливые.