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Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time space strategy game in which you lead one of many civilizations as its Emperor. Build an empire, colonize planets, deal with other factions and characters, research technologies and assemble fleets. The galaxy holds diverse factions, outlaws, merchants, pirate clans and mercenaries, as well as anomalies, black holes, ancient artefacts and ruins. New systems can bring opportunities or unexpected problems.

Eras and civilizations

Eras are scenarios with pre-designed galaxies and background stories. You can play as one of the existing factions, each with its own victory conditions, traits, challenges, ongoing conflicts and relationships. You can also use pre-designed or customizable races, or generate races at random; each has its own background and traits.

Gameplay can be asymmetrical: some races have yet to discover space travel, while others may already command mighty empires, and some races are naturally stronger than others. You can instead start a symmetrical game for a traditional 4X experience. New factions and characters may join during a game, while outlaws, merchants, travellers and others roam the galaxy.

Explore and develop

You explore, expand, exploit and fight in a dynamic, evolving galaxy, with real-time, non-instanced combat. Artefacts, ruins, anomalies and other discoveries can lead to research opportunities, projects, events and quests. Research ranges from weapons capable of destroying an entire planet to Dyson Spheres.

You can appoint governors to colonies and council members to your empire to reduce micromanagement. Both can level up and have their own traits, happiness and experience. Customizable victory conditions and AI behaviors shape how factions operate and can make allies and enemies unpredictable.

Diplomacy and conflict

The diplomacy system lets you make allies and enemies, but your actions can change how the rest of the galaxy views you. Destroying a planet, praising another race or denouncing it can affect the balance of the galaxy.