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Is Space Empires V worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Space-strategy players who want to design and customize their own vehicles
- Players who enjoy managing empires across large, randomly generated galaxies
- Strategy players interested in customizing AI opponents and game content
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a narrowly focused campaign may find the large galaxy and extensive technology tree demanding to manage.
- Players looking for quick sessions may find the many empire, vehicle, research, and customization systems make play more involved.
- Players seeking direct control of individual battlefield units may prefer a strategy game centered on hands-on combat.
Our take on Space Empires V
The broad customization comes with a trade-off: players who prefer a fixed setup must contend with a game that gives substantial attention to vehicle design, AI creation, graphics changes, and player-made modifications.
What is Space Empires V?
A strategy game about building an interstellar empire across a vast galaxy.
Players survey space, extend their territory, and face rival powers in tactical combat. Diplomacy between empires, hex-based movement, and a system for creating vessels shape the campaign. Each galaxy may hold 100 star systems, with up to 15 worlds in every system. Customization covers vessels, installations, cargo haulers, combat craft, orbital hazards, observation units, ground forces, unmanned craft, and weapon emplacements. Its research structure offers thousands of technological stages alongside hundreds of modules and facilities. Fourteen species can be selected or altered. Maps can be generated at random or imported, and user-made modifications can change visual assets, computer-controlled opponents, and other parts of the game.
How Space Empires V plays
- 01Custom vehicle design
- Players may design and modify a range of units and installations, including starships, outposts, cargo vessels, combat craft, orbital hazards, space relays, ground forces, unmanned craft, and weapon emplacements.
- 02Tactical combat testing
- A combat simulator allows vehicle designs to be tested before or alongside tactical battles.
- 03Large galaxy maps
- A galaxy can contain 100 solar systems, with 15 planets in each system.
- 04Extensive technology tree
- Research covers thousands of technology levels along with hundreds of components and facilities.
- 05Custom AI opponents
- Players can create computer-controlled opponents with distinct traits, styles, and speech.
- 06Player-made modifications
- The game supports changes to graphics, races, AI players, maps, and other game elements.
- 07Political alliances
- Multiple empires can form alliances during play.
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Space Empires V: platforms & release
Is Space Empires V worth it?
It is worth it if: space-strategy players who want to design and customize their own vehicles. Skip it if: players seeking a narrowly focused campaign may find the large galaxy and extensive technology tree demanding to manage.
Where can I download Space Empires V?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Space Empires V's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Space Empires V on?
Windows only.
