Star Traders: 4X Empires
Trese Brothers · 2014 · 4X, Sci-fi, Turn-Based Strategy, Top-Down, Diplomacy
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About Star Traders: 4X Empires
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Lead humanity's last survivors to rebuild a galactic empire through turn-based strategy, managing warfare, politics, economics, and technology research across hostile space. Wage tactical fleet battles against alien invaders, manipulate rival factions through espionage and diplomacy, and unlock advanced technologies to expand your domain in this expansive 4X game set in the Star Traders universe.
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire among the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you must lead the refugees of the great Exodus to a new home in hostile space and build a new galaxy-spanning civilization. To survive in the dark reaches of space, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
This challenging civilization-building game expands upon the universe of the original Star Traders RPG. As the leader of a splinter group who have fallen behind the main fleet, you have no choice but to settle nearby habitable worlds, stake your claim and try to prosper.
Your forces will face hostile aliens at every turn and your fleets will do battle in a challenging tactical conflicts across the solar systems. As the waves of stellar conflict wash across your empire, you’ll face invasions, devastating planetary bombardments and need to exact the same on alien infestations to expand your empire.
Within your own imperium, you must manage your economy, political realm, and technological research. The squabbling factions vie for power, unable to lay old rivalries to rest. Only your deft political maneuvering can build treaties and harmony over discord and war. From the helm, you must also construct a mighty economy, one capable of surviving the devastation of war and the attacks of political adversaries. A sprawling technology tree lies before you and your choice of technologies will determine the strategy of your galactic civilization. To survive, you’ll need to overcome some of these challenges, to succeed you must master them all.
Take control through the strategic use of spies, economics, politics, technology and advanced weaponry in the most engaging, expansive and intense turn-based sci-fi title. Rebuild the human civilization from the ashes of interstellar war to become the galaxy’s ultimate leader in Star Trader 4X Empires.
The Star Traders Two Pack includes two copies of the game - one for you and one to gift to a friend. The second copy is at 50%! Share your strategies and epic war against the alien with a friend today!
Star Traders: 4X Empires includes the full tech tree, and both the Alta Mesa and Hyperion Ship Skin Packs. This games has no chargeable DLC - all present and future content is included in the price.
This challenging civilization-building game expands upon the universe of the original Star Traders RPG. As the leader of a splinter group who have fallen behind the main fleet, you have no choice but to settle nearby habitable worlds, stake your claim and try to prosper.
Your forces will face hostile aliens at every turn and your fleets will do battle in a challenging tactical conflicts across the solar systems. As the waves of stellar conflict wash across your empire, you’ll face invasions, devastating planetary bombardments and need to exact the same on alien infestations to expand your empire.
Within your own imperium, you must manage your economy, political realm, and technological research. The squabbling factions vie for power, unable to lay old rivalries to rest. Only your deft political maneuvering can build treaties and harmony over discord and war. From the helm, you must also construct a mighty economy, one capable of surviving the devastation of war and the attacks of political adversaries. A sprawling technology tree lies before you and your choice of technologies will determine the strategy of your galactic civilization. To survive, you’ll need to overcome some of these challenges, to succeed you must master them all.
- Grow a ragtag band of survivors into a new galactic empire.
- Protect your colonies of galactic refugees from alien attack.
- Employ devious political and economic machinations to expand your domain.
- Use spies and espionage to get the upperhand on your enemies.
- Research and build incredible new ships, weapons and technologies.
- Trade with a vast universe full of rich, dynamic characters.
- Explore the galaxy and uncover its many secrets.
- Multiple difficulty levels and customizable map sizes.
- Risk everything to rescue refugees and keep them safe.
Take control through the strategic use of spies, economics, politics, technology and advanced weaponry in the most engaging, expansive and intense turn-based sci-fi title. Rebuild the human civilization from the ashes of interstellar war to become the galaxy’s ultimate leader in Star Trader 4X Empires.
Snag a Two Pack
The Star Traders Two Pack includes two copies of the game - one for you and one to gift to a friend. The second copy is at 50%! Share your strategies and epic war against the alien with a friend today!
What's in the Box?
Star Traders: 4X Empires includes the full tech tree, and both the Alta Mesa and Hyperion Ship Skin Packs. This games has no chargeable DLC - all present and future content is included in the price.
- Entire Tech tree
- All game maps
- All 6 classic Factions
- Additional 3 Great Clan Factions (Alta Mesa, Moklumne, Zenrin)
- All 9 ship design types
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Star Traders: 4X Empires is a turn-based strategy game that immerses players in a post-apocalyptic universe where humanity's last survivors strive to rebuild their empire among the stars. As the leader of a splinter group left behind during the great Exodus, you must colonize habitable worlds, manage resources, engage in diplomacy, and defend against alien threats to restore civilization. The game offers a deep and complex 4X experience with the following core mechanics: -Exploration & Colonization: Navigate a galaxy of 25 to 90 worlds, depending on the selected map size. Establish colonies on habitable planets to expand your influence and resources. -Ship Design & Combat: Customize and build various ship types, including colony ships, exploration vessels, and warships. Engage in tactical space battles with hostile factions and alien species. -Research & Technology: Unlock a vast tech tree that influences your empire's capabilities. Research advancements in military, economy, and infrastructure to gain an edge over rivals. -Diplomacy & Politics: Manage internal factions vying for power. Use political maneuvering to maintain stability and prevent uprisings within your empire. …12 found this helpful
I REALLY wanted to like this game, but frankly, there are just way too many problems. This is a very simplified, streamlined 4X game. If you are a fan of stuff like the Civilization series or Stellaris, this game has nothing to offer for you. If you theoretically like the concept of a 4X game, but actually playing them feels overwhelming with the amount of things you have to manage, then this could be a nice offering. Cheap, streamlined, simple. However, unfortunately, it is also half baked. The idea is that you have to establish an empire in space, with the help of three selected factions whose relationship you have to manage, as the admiral of the templar order, tasked to safeguard the new empire from xeno attacks. You win a map by eliminating all xeno presence. You can design your own ships, picking up the part from components you researched. In actual practice, the factions have barely any identity, you manage everything like you would in any other 4X games and the faction diplomacy is just random rolls. At the start of every turn, you have a random chance of the relation between two factions changing randomly. How often this happens and whether the change is positive or nega…7 found this helpful
Looks good, a bit too old school for me. The newer one 'Frontiers' is excellent; so I bought this to support the great devs.2 found this helpful
It is simple compared to similar games that are very in depth and detailed. Of course, I like turn-based games of which this is one. Such games give you think to think about what is happening and enjoy the beauty of your move without having to watch out for an immediate ambush. Board games allow such an overview of the entire game and time to enjoy the intricacies of what is happening much like chess. I am not putting down the more realistic detailed games in realtime; I just enjoy the moment without having the moment be just a moment.1 found this helpful
Great game! I played a lot on mobile. I would like to see a new version with a more modern look and a better UI.1 found this helpful
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