Cover art for Space Empires 4X

Space Empires 4X

2011 · BGG
Avg rating
7.69
Bayes rating
6.87
Weight
3.36 (Medium Heavy)
Players
1-4
Playtime
4 hr
Ratings count
3,981

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Description

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.

Play mode

Solo

How it plays

Auction & bidding Deduction & hidden information Dice rolling
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Engine & tableau building Resource & economic management Roll / flip & write

Game type

Wargame Board game

What it’s about

Science fiction & space History, politics & real-world conflict Adventure & exploration

Publishers

Banana Games GMT Games

Designers

Jim Krohn