StarDrive

StarDrive is a real-time 4X space strategy game. Starting with one planet and a small number of space-worthy vessels, you explore the galaxy, conquer worlds, establish colonies and defend your empire. You can pursue diplomacy, trade, espionage and research, or use force to seek galactic domination.

Build an empire

Choose one of eight rendered alien races or design your own, then interact with other civilizations, negotiate and form allegiances. Colonize different kinds of planets, terraform and populate them, and develop them into specialized trade or industrial centers. Research technologies to strengthen your military and industrial capabilities.

Your exploration can bring you into contact with random events, remnants, hidden treasures, deep-space terrors and late-game threats. You can also steal technologies, incite rebellions and rob enemies through an agent-based espionage system. Ground troops can be deployed from orbit to fight the last planetary defenses in ground combat.

Design and command ships

StarDrive’s modular ship-design system lets you create custom vessels, with the composition and placement of modules affecting their performance. In battle, you can rotate a damaged ship to bring its other side to bear, shelter behind a friendly capital ship’s shields, warp in and out of combat, launch fighters or lay mines.

Command ships with real-time strategy orders, or take direct arcade-style control of any ship in your empire. The fleet editor lets you create formations and set rules of engagement. The game’s real-time view zooms seamlessly from the grand strategic scale to close-up action.