Tick-based space war in short seasonal rounds, in the spirit of early-2000s text strategy games.
Genre
Space strategy browser games
Planets, fleets and alliances across a persistent galaxy.
35 games
Space hauling and commodity trading in a shared galaxy run from a terminal-style browser UI.
Real-time space empire strategy with bases, fleets and alliances, running since 2006.
Run a corporation in a growing galaxy where ten-minute turns move goods, votes and fleets.
Planet-building space strategy with alliances and fleet battles across several universes.
PvE space sandbox where exiled captains mine, craft, haul and build settlements across six galaxies.
OGame-style empire building across several fast universes with fleets, pirates and alliances.
Real-time space empire MMO where federations race to fire a galaxy-resetting Ultimate Weapon.
Shared-galaxy space empire game with six asymmetric races and a universe-wrecking superweapon.
Space economy sim where you build production chains and trade on a player-driven exchange.
Space conquest game in which one undeveloped world grows into a fleet-backed empire.
Space strategyUnknown
Grid-based space exploration and combat where three factions fight over an X,Y galaxy.
Real-time space empire game: conquer planets by infiltration or invasion in year-long rounds.
Hourly-tick space empire game where player families conquer planets across round-based galaxies.
Asynchronous space 4X where alliances rally fleets and dial portal addresses to raid rival planets.
Slow real-time galactic conquest where weeks-long games hinge on alliances and betrayal.
Real-time space 4X where alliances war across a 15,000-system galaxy that never pauses.
A persistent space 4X where human players share the galaxy with clearly labelled AI empires.
The space empire classic: mines, fleets and raids across a persistent universe.
Design your own warships and conquer the galaxy in this French-language space strategy game.
Space strategyFree with purchases
Graphical space trading and combat in real time, rationed by action points that refill over the day.
A human-moderated space empire game whose storyline has run continuously since 1992.
A persistent space 4X where you can command fleet battles live from a ship's bridge.
Round-based space warfare where galaxies and alliances fight over asteroids tick by tick.
A spreadsheet-friendly space economy MMO where every commodity is made and sold by players.
Slow browser 4X where you build a star system in private, then light a beacon to join the galaxy.
Planet-building space strategy where captains research, colonise and fight over a spiral galaxy.
Real-time space strategy in numbered rounds: colonise planets, design ships and war as clans.
Text-based space 4X where Imperials, Nomads and warlords claim stars in one shared galaxy.
Open-source space trading and piracy game where alliances fight over sectors and ports.
Sci-fi empire builder where planets grow populations, trade on markets and scheme against rivals.
A space 4X of colony economies, supply lines and seasonal galaxies.
Volunteer-run Star Wars sandbox where factions trade, travel and fight in real time since 1998.
Space-opera strategy where player fleets fight real-time battles and trade across a galaxy.
Co-op hard-science space MMO flown with real physics across a 1:1 Solar System.
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