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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.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 93% of 5,933 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 25 of 43 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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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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