Hyper Empire

Hyper Empire approaches the 4X strategy formula with a simple but appealing idea: deliver the experience of building, developing, and defending a galactic civilization without demanding dozens of hours for a single campaign. Developed and published by Fair Weather Studios, the game condenses exploration, economic development, technological growth, colonization, and warfare into sessions intended to reach their conclusion relatively quickly. Rather than attempting to compete with massive strategy games through sheer complexity, it concentrates on maintaining momentum and making decisions matter almost immediately. This gives it a distinctive identity for players who enjoy empire management but prefer campaigns that can reasonably be completed in one sitting. The core experience revolves around expanding across space, establishing colonies, gathering resources, strengthening infrastructure, and preparing for increasingly dangerous opposition. Resources are valuable enough that careless spending can quickly create problems, especially because the shortened campaign structure gives players less time to recover from poor decisions. Investing heavily in technology might leave military f…

Very good quick fix strategy game with lots of depth.

I just started playing after the new DLC launch and I find it a very fun game. It's simple and quick as promised and certainly not Stellaris. If you're looking for something like this, then the game with the free DLC is a good investment.

Cheap enough that it wasn't worth the bother of refunding, but this isn't a 4x. It's more of an unorthodox roguelite, and it didn't click for me.

Space 4X(ish) in a lunch break. Is good.

I kinda get what they were going for, but it just really didn't click with me. Did a few games and just never had fun with it.