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There are also the X3 games from Egosoft (e.g. Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude), which are great fun for building a space trading empire, exploring, waging war or being a pirate. Warning: they can suck up a lot of time. They aren't the easiest to learn games and there's a lot of modding potential. They started with a lot of bugs, but are much more playable now.

X4 Foundations is the new release, but I haven't tried it personally yet.

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I had heard great things about X3 for years, so I picked up X4 on release.

Major mistake. The game was buggy, and the worlds cold and lifeless. The fanboys excused it as "well, every Egosoft game is released like this... but it gets better after a few updates...."

Haven't played X4 in a long time. I've heard its better, but I would caution people interested in purchasing the game to do their research, and only buy it on sale.

And never buy an Egosoft product within 6 months of release, at a minimum.

Yep did this as well, but knew full well it wasn't ready. Checked back this year, lo and behold a full and wonderful game.

It's just how Egosoft works apparently.

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