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Space Empires IV Deluxe

Malfador Machinations · Strategy First · 2006-02-07

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 07, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.

8
playing now
86%
positive of 291 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

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

Space Empires IV is a turn-based 4X strategy computer game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First as part of the Space Empires series in which players control an alien race in an attempt at galactic conquest.

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  • · Top 53% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 291 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at GamersGate (2017-11-23) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 35 of 62 observed days · $9.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2032026-08-11 20:00 — 16 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 19 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 18 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 16 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 17 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 13 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 19 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 18 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.892015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-09-08 — best price $9.992016-02-22 — best price $9.992016-12-07 — best price $3.992017-11-06 — best price $1.492018-03-09 — best price $1.862018-06-26 — best price $9.992018-10-11 — best price $2.002019-02-25 — best price $2.002019-08-20 — best price $8.252020-01-13 — best price $1.992020-03-09 — best price $1.992020-05-27 — best price $1.992020-07-19 — best price $9.992020-08-28 — best price $9.992020-10-11 — best price $8.892020-11-30 — best price $1.502021-01-20 — best price $9.992021-03-04 — best price $9.992021-04-17 — best price $9.992021-05-25 — best price $9.992021-07-09 — best price $1.922021-09-28 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $7.342022-03-12 — best price $8.202022-07-11 — best price $1.492022-11-22 — best price $2.992023-03-03 — best price $2.002023-07-31 — best price $7.902024-01-06 — best price $9.992024-06-13 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-08-16 — best price $7.342026-03-15 — best price $2.002026-06-15 — best price $2.002026-08-28 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

4XSpaceSci-fiStrategyTurn-BasedSingleplayerTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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