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Space Empires III

Malfador Machinations · Strategy First · 2020-10-08

SteamEpic Games Store

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Oct 13, 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.

2
playing now
80%
positive of 45 reviews
Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Space Empires is a series of 4X turn-based strategy video games by Malfador Machinations for MS-DOS and Windows. The player assumes the role of the leader of a space-faring civilization.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 80% of 5,933 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.29 at GamersGate (2023-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 26 of 44 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.292020-10-082026-08-212020-10-08 — best price $3.192021-02-11 — best price $0.792021-09-06 — best price $0.512021-11-15 — best price $3.992022-01-07 — best price $0.552022-03-07 — best price $0.792022-05-30 — best price $0.412022-08-29 — best price $0.892022-11-07 — best price $0.592023-01-02 — best price $0.742023-03-13 — best price $0.292023-04-24 — best price $0.792023-06-21 — best price $3.992023-08-15 — best price $3.992023-11-13 — best price $1.992023-12-18 — best price $3.992024-02-09 — best price $0.392024-04-19 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $0.792024-08-19 — best price $3.992024-11-15 — best price $1.192024-12-20 — best price $1.192025-02-24 — best price $1.992025-04-17 — best price $0.792025-07-14 — best price $0.602025-09-19 — best price $0.602025-11-22 — best price $0.602026-01-22 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-05-27 — best price $3.992026-08-14 — best price $0.802026-08-21 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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