Space Empires V

Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.

Space Empires V is a strategy, 4x and space game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First.
Released on October 16th 2006 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 447 reviews of which 321 were positive and 126 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Space Empires V into these genres:

Strategy 4X Space Turn-Based Sci-fi Singleplayer Turn-Based Strategy Multiplayer

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Windows

Minimum System Requirements: Pentium 500MHz or better class machine, Windows XP, 64 megabytes RAM or better, 1024x768 or better screen resolution, 16 bit color display or better, DirectX 7.0 (or better), A video card with 3D acceleration, 500 megs hard drive space, A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 7.0 (or better) compatible.

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Dec. 2024

Good turned based strategy.. quite an old title but still worth coming back to.

Oct. 2024

This game is awful. It is ancient, buggy, unstable and requires mods to make it remotely playable. It doesn't have half the features Stellaris has. I don't know how I've played it for 600 hours or how the ship design and combat is somehow better then games with 100x the budget and time. This game is a trap. You need to not play it. In fact, you need to run, right now before this buggy crap takes 600 from you too. It's too late for me, save yourself!

Sept. 2024

One of my ol time favs in the 4x space genre, played III and IV a ton back in the day. Still unique for the level and ease of modding and there is a long list of great ones. Notably Captain Kwok's Balance Mod (still being updated, with the last release in June of this year!), Crimson Mod, Un-Named Ai mod, and Nova Mod. I've mostly played Kwok's BM and it's the best place to start (don't waste your time with vanilla game), this guy is a legend of his craft having played these games for 25 years and knows how to put together a comprehensive, balanced (wink) and enjoyable mod experience. It's a shame we may never see a SEVI given the rights were sold off many moons ago. Shout out to Aaron and Kwok for the many hours of blood, sweat and entertainment they've given the fans.

July 2024

Great game. Simply put, it is the best space 4X in existence to date (and I have played many).

Feb. 2024

Great oldschool space game. Very archaic by modern standards however. The gameplay is essentially like any of the Gal Civ games with worse graphics... does have some fps issues with windows 10 so be aware of that.

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-80% 19.99€ 3.99€

6.8

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Developer

Malfador Machinations

Publisher

Strategy First

Release 16 Oct 2006

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