Space Empires I

Space Empires I is a turn-based strategy game about leading an intelligent race in a contest for galactic survival and expansion. You build space-based ships, travel between star systems through warp points, meet extraterrestrial races and use diplomacy or intelligence operations to pursue your goals.

Build your empire

You begin with a few possible ship hull sizes and can place components on them to create ships. Research unlocks new hull sizes and components, eventually letting you build ships ten times the size of your original hull size. Components include bridges, long-range scanners, shield generators, emergency supplies that are destroyed when used to extend a ship’s movement, weapons, boarding parties, cloaking devices, Dyson sphere construction material and star-destroying devices.

Diplomacy and intelligence

As your realm expands, you can encounter extraterrestrial races and negotiate with them. Treaties between empires range from trade agreements to partnerships and protectorates. Intelligence operations include information gathering, placing bombs on ships and inciting rebellion on a planet.

Travel through warp points

Interstellar travel uses naturally occurring anomalies called warp points, which function as wormholes between two star systems rather than relying on faster-than-light drives. With the appropriate technologies, you can open and close warp points.