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Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game. Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions.
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The complete Galactic Civilizations II saga in one package: a turn-based 4X where you lead a spacefaring civilization across a randomly generated galaxy. Design your own ships, outwit opponents who play fair, and win by war, culture, diplomacy or technology. Deep, endlessly replayable, and still a benchmark for space strategy.
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StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
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A 4X space strategy from 2405, when humanity's first faster-than-light drive meets an alien attack on Earth. Six races with genuinely different ways to travel the stars, a randomized tech tree, hands-on ship design and real-time fleet battles. Turn-based empire building that plays differently every time, alone or with up to eight players.
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A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns. You zoom from missile-by-missile fleet fights to managing orbiting planets across a living galaxy, leading one of six factions from the TEC, Vasari, and Advent to victory by war, trade, culture, or diplomacy.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...
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A turn-based space opera where you lead one of eight wildly different civilizations across a galaxy littered with the ruins of the ENDLESS. Colonize systems, steer senates, design ships and chase the truth about Dust. Gorgeous to look at, backed by a superb soundtrack, and built so each new empire plays like a different game.
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Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
Also in Co-op · Replayable
A turn-based space 4X in the spirit of the old classics: explore nearby stars, settle worlds, grow a fleet from a few destroyers to planet-destroying Dread Stars, and win the galaxy by diplomacy or force. Streamlined empire management, sharp tactical ship battles, seven factions and a comic-book look make it easy to learn and hard to put down.
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A turn-based space 4X on a huge scale: explore a galaxy of 100 solar systems, research thousands of tech levels, design every ship from the hull up and test it in a combat simulator before it ever fires a shot. Deep, demanding, endlessly moddable, and the kind of empire builder that keeps pulling you back for one more turn.
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A turn-based space 4X about building a galactic empire the classic way: explore, colonize, research, and fight on a tactical grid when talks fail. Remote exploration hides secrets in every system, six races and custom builds keep runs fresh, and micromanagement stays out of your way.
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A classic space empire builder from 1999, back with sharper textures and modern resolutions. Run a galactic power in real time: colonize planets, raise cities, design ships and tanks, spy on rivals or simply outbuild them. Three races, three campaigns, huge battles in space and on the ground. Old-school in the best way, and still hard to put down.
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Guide a spacefaring civilization through a randomly generated galaxy, designing ships and choosing whether war, culture, diplomacy or technology…
Build a space empire turn by turn, design your own fleets and fight real-time battles across a galaxy that never plays out the same way twice.
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option…
Grow your civilization, negotiate with rivals and pirates, and command huge fleets in battles that reshape the star map.
Colonize planets, design your fleets and outsmart rival empires across three very different campaigns.
Grow a civilization from a single star system to a galactic power, turn by turn, in a galaxy that never generates the same way twice.
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars.
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire.
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration.
Captain a fleet of ships. Meet new races. Explore other star systems. Discover and explore anomalies, asteroid fields, nebulas, suns, comets and more.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders.
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up…
Dominus Galaxia is a 4X space strategy game with a focus on amplifying strategic decisions and minimising non-strategic busywork.
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.
Build fleets in secret, hack the enemy's systems and hit its core before it wakes up to what you are doing.
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics.
Build a turn-based galactic empire your way, from first colony ship to tactical battles between the stars.
A vast pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Generate a galaxy of up to 2,000 star systems, run an empire where every freighter and fleet is…
Colonize planets, outresearch rival empires and grow a fleet strong enough to face the Antarans, one turn at a time.
Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war.
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire.
A board-game 4X that finishes in one to two hours. Explore a new hex galaxy, research techs, build fleets from scouts to Dreadnaughts, and hunt down…
Steer one of seven factions through an alien arrival, from covert politics on Earth to fleet battles across the Solar System.
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic.
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics.
A real-time 4X where tactics and empire-building happen in one mode with no turns.
Guide a young spacefaring civilization across a fresh galaxy each run, growing it by war, trade, diplomacy or culture until the stars answer to you.
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander.
A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up…
A vast pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Generate a galaxy of up to 2,000 star systems, run an empire where every freighter and fleet is…
Discover a space strategy game filled with conquest, betrayal and subterfuge.
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration.
