Space Empires V

The best Space 4x game I know of. Customizable races (or play with the premade ones like the "Terrans" )-some with proprietary technologies. Customize traits, appearance/ships, names used etc. Save them, reuse them, or populate future games with custom races Customizable games- customize the galaxy you play in, # of races, set racial trait limits, intelligence/espionage, technology research rate, etc.(if you want to get to Dyson Spheres and Ring Worlds without taking ages turn Tech rate up) The tech tree is massive and supports a ton of different strategies(sadly diplomatic AI is kinda dumb and random) and some different play types beyond wars. Highly advanced tech allows you to manipulate the galaxy- form planets out of asteroid belts, destroy planets(for sphere world materials?) or even stars or warp points, or create new ones CONTROLLABLE BATTLES -in connection with the next point lets you design specialist units, combined forces for fleet warfare, even pacifist units that don't kill if you want to Customizable ships/satellites/space stations/mines/drones/fighters/ground troops of different size classes(smaller ships are faster+more evasive). Dozens of weapon ty…

Truly a loss when Strategy First bought out this developer only to kill one of the best strategy games out there because it was a threat to their game Gal Civ, we went from having true strategic and tactical combat to command to attack and watch pretty lights. I played this game so much even before I got it on steam and honestly wish they would bring games like this back. I love the different ways you could play this game, you wanted to be a true isolationist then that was possible in this game, you could easily be the race that was a aggressive swarm and anything in between. I really also loved the fact that if you where in a war that you couldn't win you could develop stealth technology and build a ship that could slip though their sensors and defense with a warhead that would make a star go super nova or even build a stealth mine layer along their attack routes to damage them before they get to your space. the game also got logistics right as well, your ships needed supplies to run and ordinance to fire it's weapons, with a logistics system, you couldn't wage war or defend your self. If this game ever came back as a real time instead of a turn base with updated easier to us…

didn't expect to like this one as much as I do, still a lot to learn but I can see sinking a lot of hours into this and space empires 4 deluxe.

Very underrated. Excellet 4X space game, everything is highly customizable and moddable, great if you like to roleplay a bit, high replayability. Spent almost 100 hours on it barely noticing I do recommend playing with Captain Kwok's Rebalancing mod though Also, make no mistake, it is a complex game, even by the genre's standards. Many basic mechanics are convoluted, unintuitive and not covered by the tutorial, and since the game is old and kind of niche even in its day online guides are scarse, so you'll have to figure out many things by trial and error. But hey, that's part of the fun There are compatibility issues with newer systems, but i found simply running the game in windowed mode seems to fix everything

I've been a fan of this franchise since it was Freeware for Windows 95.

a friend and i got the game to work over TCP/IP , after port forwarding both PC's . but when i tried to generate the large map it crashed . so we are doing a medium map . there is probably more things i can do to modernize the computing power.