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Space Empires III

Malfador Machinations · Strategy First · 2020-10-08

SteamEpic Games Store

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Space Empires III is a 2020 Strategy game priced at $3.99, with a Positive review sentiment (80% of 46 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
80%
positive of 46 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 11:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 14,371 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

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

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 21 of 37 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320202026Week of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-16 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 11:00 — 0 players
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

3832026-05-31 — 16 pageviews2026-06-04 — 17 pageviews2026-06-08 — 7 pageviews2026-06-12 — 8 pageviews2026-06-16 — 17 pageviews2026-06-20 — 17 pageviews2026-06-24 — 31 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-02 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 10 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 15 pageviews2026-07-18 — 12 pageviews2026-07-22 — 16 pageviews2026-07-26 — 19 pageviews2026-07-30 — 11 pageviews2026-08-03 — 12 pageviews2026-08-07 — 12 pageviews2026-08-11 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 17 pageviews2026-08-19 — 11 pageviews2026-08-23 — 10 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews2026-08-31 — 21 pageviews2026-09-04 — 20 pageviews2026-09-08 — 13 pageviews2026-09-12 — 18 pageviews2026-09-16 — 13 pageviews2026-09-20 — 16 pageviews2026-09-24 — 15 pageviews2026-09-28 — 11 pageviews2026-10-02 — 11 pageviews2026-10-06 — 14 pageviews2026-10-09 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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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