
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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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Charts
Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
No United States chart position — it charts only in the markets below.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 7.43/day in the week to Sep 11 → 10.14/day in the week after.
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Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 1296 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Great game. However you will be overwhelmed with death by 1000 papercuts after you get further into the game. Frustration after frustration with the AI once you starting having to manage 50+ ships and stations.
Bought on sale with all the dlc and I'm really enjoying this, its quite complex under the surface and id suggest having a test world in order to get to grips with the systems. If you can, buy and play timelines first, it took me about 8 hours to do the timelines story, plus it teaches you a bit about the basics in a more practical sense than the tutorials (like hands on vs theory) and the rewards for playing it are worth it. (you need at least a 1 rating in everything to get all the rewards for a open world save, as a heads up) Would recommend as it runs fantastically on my rig bar a little slow down in huge fleet fights, my fist save is in shambles due to my economy and a full xenon invasion but im still loving it, the ships are fun to work towards and the reputation system is great. my only hang up it the station and fleet interface, the ai is annoying to leave on its own for ages and the menus are diabolical to me. Still, get it if your into things like eve and elite dangerous, it well worth it and an amazing time sync.
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Latest in each market: best RU #70, worst CA #92 · 4 markets collected
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 12.22/day in the week to Aug 4 → 14.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, German*, French*, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil*, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Russian*, Korean, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America +2 more
Hours played at review time, across 1.3K reviews with recorded playtime.
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Was watching Cohh play.. looked so much fun. But i dont have 10k ppl watching and guiding me. trying to ask anything in this forum and you get the most acoustic replies. Not so much fun alone and trying to watch videos taht make any sense on yt. over all it was a waste of money i dont thikn ill ever tough this again.
Best space sim
I like it
I think this is a good game. I have played a total of 31 hours and I still don't understand what I'm doing. I'm used to playing Elite Dangerous, and the controls are completely different on X4. We really need an official gamepad template for this game that actually makes sense. I wish X4 would change how pilots travel in this game. Its okay to make traversing like Elite Dangerous. I wish we would get rid of the highways and jump gates. They really take a lot away from the gaming experience. Please get rid of the highways and jump gates. This game would be close to perfect if that would happen. I also hate how the game tracks your destinations. Its difficult to even traverse in this game due to stupid jump gates, highways, and how the game guides you to your destinations. Other than that, the game seems to be really well done. Graphics are good, even though I can't turn my graphics up the way I would like due to my graphics card only having 6GB of VRAM and only 16GB of RAM total, dual-channel. I want to play this game more, but its difficult to travel and also difficult to know if you are going the right way to your destinations. I can't get past the first mission where I'm supposed to plant something on the SCA's station. I scanned the leak, flew away to safety. I then, fly to my next destination, but when I get there and get close to my target on the station, I start getting shot at. Am I supposed to disembark to my spacesuit to plant it or what? The game doesn't do a very good job of teaching new players what to actually do. People should not have to google search how to do things in your game. Your game should inform players on what to do and how to do them. Its ruined the experience for me, but I can't rate the game bad just because it contains things I absolutely hate. The game seems to be very well created, but the initial missions do not tell new players what to actually do and that ruins it for a lot of people.
If you remember Elite on the BBC Micro (or the CPC464.... and others) then this is the game that we all dreamed of being able to play. There is not one single reason to not get this.
Have you played all the way from X1 to X4? Sure go ahead! If not, Stay The ♥♥♥♥ Away. This game has the most painful, horrible, unusable introduction I have ever seen, and even then I am being generous saying it has one. UI is abhorrent, instructions to quest are misleading when they exist, quest repeatedly send you to areas you don't have access to and/or noone will give you instructions for, the keybinds are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ inpersonated and god...I don't even know where to go because I barely knew where to start... After 8h our flying around, picking up quest, being dropped into nothing after the first guild quest of the Terrans, flying between systems where its random if any ship have instructions where your next step to an objective is (mind you, not to where your next objective is no no just which system to jump to next where its unlikely anyone will be able to tell you where to jump next) and just clicking random stuff trying to finish the first "easy" intelligence "drop satellite at target area" (WHAT TARGET AREA?!?)" I have even less idea if there is even a game here. It must be a baffeling amount of fart-smelling that allowed this game to survive with this horrendous a start, and the most frustrating thing is is that there seems to be a game beneath the mile-deep pile of ♥♥♥♥. I am going to try to find out what the F is going on, if only because I've been smashing my head into this wall long enough that I can't refund, and perhaps because there seems to be something good beneath all this... But by god, ensure the introduction has been fixed or that you have life saving step-by-step for getting into this game from someone else than the devs before trying this. There is something here, but I don't know what I need to smoke to see the beautiful world some people seem to live in playing this
purchased this game at its release played x, x2, x3, and was super excited for x4. got over 200 hours in before I gave up. controls were wonky, and after about a week of giving it a rest, I forgot how to play the controls are so bad. So, here i am 8 years later. new computer. using mouse and keyboard instead of a joystick. Figured some issues would be fixed. Couldn't even finish the tutorials. on the combat tutorial my ship was stuck in reverse and I slammed into the station. kept resetting my input controls (mouse and keyboard, default settings) so that I had to keep hitting shift space to reenable mouse steering. But ship was still stuck in max reverse. finally fixed that (have no idea what reset it) then I started a game. did the patrol begining adventure mode, where you have to fix a satelite. (sorry, Im a bit distracted. kid keeps saying Im misspelling words, like satellite. I don't care, dads ranting) couldnt figure out how to disembark the ship. every time I go into a menu (had dead satelite targeted, was stopped within 50 meters) the stupid ship would reverse and take me away from the satellite (kid says thank you for spelling satelite correctly last time. still dont care.) Id be like 1.6k away and have to fly back. finally decided to take out my phone and look it up. Swear, I was in the ship menu (enter key) and didn't see "get up" like 4 times. but, control D works as well, and I can do that without slamming my ship into reverse. exited the ship. Now my space suit is in full reverse. Cant stop it. x dont work, y dont work, z dont work. I can hit tab and start moving forward at like 5 meters a second, but I cannot stop. Its either full reverse if im not doing anything, or max thrust with tab. Stupid game. I just saved and quit. Maybe in another 8 years we will get another 10 dlc and they will finally fix the stupid input bugs. Edit : same day, quit, restarted, issue went away. also figured out when mouse steering goes away you can left click and drag the mouse and move your ship that way without constantly hitting shift space to get steering back whenever you exit a menu.
配置还行不卡,好玩的有点上头
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