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Fragile Allegiance

Gremlin Interactive · Alternative Software Ltd · 2015-06-30

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: 1997 (DOS)

Assemble your fleets, fill your silos with nuclear warheads, conduct research, gather resources, and wage war in a vast galaxy in this unique take on 4X Strategy. Appoint Colony Supervisors to manage your colony and deploy Spy Satellites for the ultimate in skulduggery.

4
playing now
94%
positive of 125 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.05
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Fragile Allegiance is an open-ended 4X real-time strategy (RTS) game from Gremlin Interactive, released in 1996 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. The game begins on May 25, 2496, as the player begins their employment with TetraCorp who have set up a new asteroid mining franchise operation in the Fragmented Sectors. There are six alien races competing with Tetracorp for these resources. Beginning with one building and one million credits, the player is tasked with building up a successful mining operation to sell as much ore as possible to the Federation. Diplomacy is crucial to the success or failure of this franchise operation as the players' colonies begin to encroach on one another.

Health check

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  • · Top 66% of 5,982 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 125 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.05-80%
GOG$1.19-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.05 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 34 of 55 observed days · $0.14 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.052015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-10-19 — best price $3.992016-05-09 — best price $4.992016-11-14 — best price $5.992017-06-21 — best price $5.992018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-10-06 — best price $2.492019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-08-23 — best price $5.292020-02-14 — best price $2.112020-07-25 — best price $2.112021-01-22 — best price $1.852021-07-30 — best price $1.582021-12-22 — best price $1.582022-06-06 — best price $2.992022-09-30 — best price $5.292022-12-23 — best price $1.322023-06-05 — best price $1.322023-08-28 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $3.222024-04-08 — best price $1.322024-06-27 — best price $1.322024-10-10 — best price $1.492024-12-19 — best price $1.052025-03-19 — best price $1.192025-06-18 — best price $1.192025-08-26 — best price $1.192025-10-07 — best price $1.192025-11-25 — best price $1.192026-01-23 — best price $1.192026-04-24 — best price $5.992026-07-24 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RetroSpaceClassicWargameStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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