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Star Ruler

86% positive of 261 Steam reviews

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Released
2010
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Blind Mind Studios.

About the game

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)...

Tagged by players

  • 4X
  • Space
  • Strategy
  • RTS
  • Grand Strategy
  • Sci-fi

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Great 4x RTS. Extremely customizable experience to allow for short or long play sessions. Mods can expand the game further, but this is a classic that I enjoy picking up again and again.

    429 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Great game. I've got almost 800 hours in it. more than worth the purchase.

    781 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    What have you done to this once good game? The UI is now completely and utterly useless. Ships and planets will just NOT follow "automation" orders and will just shamble around aimlessly or do nothing at all. The map scrolling sometimes works well, other times it just stops working altogether. By this I mean "map panning" sometimes it will scroll quick, then all of a sudden it's panning speed will crawl to near…

    86 h played when written. 24 found it helpful.

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