Tachyon Wars

Tachyon Wars is a real-time 4X space strategy game focused on managing a fleet. You explore space, uncover the secret of dark matter and build fleets to fight a crafty AI or other players. Games can include human and computer-controlled players, in cooperative or PvP play, and you can pause to plan your next move.

Fleet tactics

You balance scanning, diversion missions, colony defense and attacks on enemy planets. Tachyon scanners reveal enemy plans, while spying and sabotage can disrupt cargo flows and supply chains. Planet resources are scarce, so you must organize supplies from mining planets to building planets; breaking those routes can undermine even a strong economy. Scanners and scout patrols help protect your supply lines, and you can spy on your own planets as well.

Ship modules give you options for specialized fleets, including invisible spies, heavy tanks, fast attackers and fighter carriers. You can equip ships with rockets, long-range lasers or cannons, or use gravity weapons that create an explosion capable of crushing everything around it, including the ship that fires it.

Planets and economy

Planet management centers on an economic triangle: assign planets to science, mining or production without detailed planet construction. Frontline planets need defenses to withstand bombing.

Game modes

Tachyon Wars supports simultaneous multiplayer games and lets you choose cooperative or PvP play, with human and computer players in the same game. In skirmish mode, also called Single Player, you can practice against the AI and develop skills for multiplayer. The AI uses tactics designed to challenge experienced strategy players.