X4: Foundations

Egosoft· 2018· Linux · PC

SimulatorStrategyScience fictionSandbox4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

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 carefully, while you embark on an epic journey.

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The premise

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.

5Room for youClosed off

8Live streamers3 in English

35People watching

#2Your spot at 10 viewersof 9

Room for you

5/100 · Closed off· 4 viewers per streamer on paper

About 15 of the 35 viewers here are not watching the biggest stream — roughly 2 per rival channel. With ten viewers you would sit at #2.

Only 7 of the 35 viewers here (20%) are watching in English. 3 of the 8 live streams are in English.

Almost nobody here is available to you — either one stream holds the room, or the category is empty, or you would be buried.

What time to stream this

Most room so far around 10pm UTC — 6 viewers per streamer.

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Thursdays have the most room — about 1.9× a typical day here.

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Audience vs competition

Daily averages since 4 September 2026

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Who you're up against

Biggest streams of 8 live right now

What players and critics say

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77Players21 ratings

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