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Space Empires I

Malfador Machinations · Strategy First · 2020-10-08

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.

Space Empires I is a Strategy game released in 2020, priced at $1.99, with a Mixed sentiment (56% of 16 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
56%
positive of 16 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 85% of 14,123 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

All-time low: $0.09 at Epic Game Store (2024-07-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 20 of 36 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120202026Week of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.092020-10-082026-08-212020-10-08 — best price $1.592021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-08-23 — best price $0.372021-11-08 — best price $0.372022-01-05 — best price $1.992022-02-28 — best price $0.372022-06-06 — best price $1.992022-08-29 — best price $0.442022-11-07 — best price $0.592023-01-02 — best price $0.522023-03-13 — best price $0.292023-04-24 — best price $0.392023-06-21 — best price $1.992023-08-15 — best price $1.992023-11-13 — best price $0.992024-01-04 — best price $0.302024-03-28 — best price $0.992024-05-23 — best price $1.992024-07-25 — best price $1.992024-10-14 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $1.992025-01-17 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-06-19 — best price $1.992025-08-25 — best price $1.992025-10-16 — best price $1.992026-01-15 — best price $0.402026-03-16 — best price $1.992026-05-14 — best price $0.402026-07-23 — best price $0.992026-08-21 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

4XRetroSpaceSci-fiEconomyStrategyTacticalFuturisticManagementExploration

Census log

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

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