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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.
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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. New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely 'moddable' and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix. Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy
- 24 bit 3D real-time rendered graphics.
- Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
- New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Freighters, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, Drones, and Weapons Platforms.
- Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
- Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
- Huge Technology Tree: Thousands of tech levels with hundreds of components and facilities.
- Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc.
- Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech.
- 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
- Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
- Complete game customization allowed by players ("mods").
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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.Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Strategy First
- Brazilian rating
- 6
- Steam Germany rating
- 12
- Metacritic
- 68
- Features
- Single-player, Multi-player, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English
- Support
- Support site ↗
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Structured language support (1)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
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| English | Yes | No | No |
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Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 75th percentile. Priced as Budget at $3.99.
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Is Space Empires V worth buying right now?
Watch — $3.99. Decent deal at 80% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
When does Space Empires V go on sale?
Decent deal at 80% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
Is Space Empires V free to play?
Space Empires V costs $3.99 on Steam.
What genre is Space Empires V?
Space Empires V is a Strategy game.
Who developed Space Empires V?
Space Empires V was developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First.
What platforms does Space Empires V support?
Available on Steam for Windows.
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