Space Empires 4X

2011
Jim Krohn
BGG Geek Rating
6.9
based on 4,148 ratings
BGG Average Rating
7.7
community average
BGG Ranking
#644
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Players
1-4
Weight
3.35/5.00
Playtime
240 min
Age
14+
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⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Tech Trees / Tech Tracks Variable Set-up Grid Movement Simulation Dice Rolling Solo / Solitaire Game Income Auction / Bidding Paper-and-Pencil Hexagon Grid Secret Unit Deployment Movement Points

📂 Categories

Science Fiction Space Exploration Bluffing Exploration Wargame Science Fiction Civilization Space Exploration

🎨 Artists

Mark Simonitch Rodger B. MacGowan

🏢 Publishers

Banana Games GMT Games

📖 About This Game

Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. Each player builds up a space empire and uses it to conquer the other players. Exploration on the mounted map is simple for players (and dangerous for their ships), revealing different space terrain that affects movement and combat. Space Empires was developed to keep a rich theme without overcomplicated rules. The game includes carriers and fighters, mines, cloaking, a very large technology tree, fifteen ship classes, merchant shipping, colonization, mining, terraforming, bases, shipyards, black holes, warp points, and non-player aliens. Yet the rules are short and intuitive: The basic rules are 8 pages long and increase to 11 pages in length when the advanced rules are included.