X4 or Space Engineers

[Josh Abbott is my soulmate <3]

They both look fun but need more details from people who have played the games.

[nemesis]

Originally posted by WildaGoat:

They both look fun but need more details from people who have played the games.

Quite simply x games are more fantasy! Space engineers is based on realism

[The Big Brzezinski]

The two games have nothing in common. They are not comparable. You might as well compare either of them to a space-themed pinball table.

[Atlar]

Both are very different games.
X4 is grand strategy with strong economy and space (fleet) combat.
Space Enigineers is a survival builder with heavy emphasis on elaborate building.

[nemesis]

Space engineers boring as far as all that is concerned, my opinion! instellar rift is better

[EPIC VOID]

Also consider starship evo

[The Big Brzezinski]

It's like this.

Play X4 if you want to be a single particle in a large economic simulation IN SPACE, and have space adventures working your way up.

Play Empyrion if you want to make your own space ships from blocks and have space adventures exploring the galaxy.

Play Space Engineers if you want to drive around a planet using ice for fuel until you hit a tree wrong and explode.

[lPaladinl]

X4 is more game than Space Engineers will ever be. There's not much to do in Space Engineers beyond the creative systems to build ships, but your ships have almost no purpose.

X4 feels unfinished and unpolished with how broken parts of it is, but it's still got more going on for gameplay mechanics.

[nemesis]

rather the series x game and empyrion or interstellar rift for more fun. als space englniers is long-winded

[Josh Abbott is my soulmate <3]

What are some key takeaways from the games

[bloodymonarch]

Originally posted by WildaGoat:

They both look fun but need more details from people who have played the games.

I tried playing Space Engineers for about five minutes before stopping.

Look at my hours on X4 and make your own choice.

[data1chi]

Could easily recommend both, they're both as buggy as the other ^^

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

X4 is for single play experience you manage your economy empire to wage wars in late game lot hours to invest to get somewhere

Space engineers is more about building your ships station and physics to play around your creation and pray to God Clang to not mess you creation
Space engineers is more fun with more people to play around solo it is boring as hell if you don't love creating stuff

[OneCheesse]

it depends

do you wanna be architect of spaceships? (architect, not engineer!) - then go into space engineers

do you prefer space where is something to do (but only singleplayer), where you can create space empire - thne go into X4


as person who has over 300h in SE and played it since prerelese day, go into X4. In SE isn't mutch to do exept desiging ships and maybe some smaller dogfights in multiplayer if you some friends to play with


(maybe, if you want game like space engineers (where you can build your own craft, check stormworks - it has no weapons (YET !) but this game really has some sort of engineering, and there is more things to do (yeah, and no space :( )

[Astasia]

Space Engineers with certain mods can add a lot of combat and trading gameplay similar to X4, but at the end of the day you are just one person all alone fighting against endlessly spawning bots, and you have to do almost everything manually or use advanced programming to get some basic automation. Unless you play multiplayer, and then it becomes a very different game.

X4 you are a faction in a dynamic world. You hire NPCs that fly your many ships, you build station complexes, it eventually becomes more strategic as you sit around on a bridge somewhere giving orders to countless ships around the galaxy as you wage war and take over enemy space or expand your trade empire.

[Josh Abbott is my soulmate <3]

Which one has more combat, like spaceship battles