Obscure

Star Traders: 4X Empires

60% positive of 61 Steam reviews

Released: 2014
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Trese Brothers.

About the game

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Tagged by players

4X
Diplomacy
Spaceships
Grand Strategy
Turn-Based Strategy
Economy
Grid-Based Movement
Aliens
Turn-Based Combat
Military
Building
Space

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Star Traders: 4X Empires

60% positive of 61 Steam reviews

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Released: 2014
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Trese Brothers.

About the game

Tagged by players

4X
Diplomacy
Spaceships
Grand Strategy
Turn-Based Strategy
Economy
Grid-Based Movement
Aliens
Turn-Based Combat
Military
Building
Space

What players say

Recommended
8/10 - This game is quite undervalued. It seemed rather simplistic when I first started playing, like a typical ipad-game, and I didn't like it. However, it turned out to be rather deep once I got under its skin and it's got some entirely unique qualities that make this an excellent 4x. Unique 1: Your viewpoint is from that of a military umbrella-government that rule 3 human empires under martial law. This because…
56 h played when written. 122 found it helpful.
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Recommended
This game plays like many of the older TBS games, like Alpha Centauri, and its ilk. It has a vast tree of technology that progresses pretty intuitively, but the controls and gameplay itself is rather hard to master. Once you figure out the basics and get an understanding of how the game progresses and works, It becomes easier to work through the game. It essentially centers around colonizing planets that then become…
52 h played when written. 24 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
"We have Master of Orion at home-" Okay that joke doesn't actually work here as well as the others. While I love the Trese Brothers' games and have gone out of my way to buy all of them to support the team, this one I cannot so easily recommend. While I personally got my money's worth out of it, I can also stomach jank, and boy is this one JANK... Imagine, dear reader, playing a 4X game like Civilization, now,…
4.5 h played when written. 11 found it helpful.
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