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Space Empires: Starfury

Malfador Machinations · Strategy First · 2020-08-03

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 22, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In Space Empires: Starfury you are on a wild intergalactic ride through the Space Empires universe. You are an undercover agent for the TCN (Terran Confederation Navy) trying to determine the cause of a recent escalation of pirate attacks in the Neutral territories.

0
playing now
70%
positive of 20 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Space Empires: Starfury is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Shrapnel Games on September 22, 2003. The game is set in a Space Empires universe containing planetary systems linked by warp points, or wormholes. The game allows the player to control a single spaceship to explore the universe.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 90% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at GamersGate (2021-10-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 25 of 47 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$9.99$0.742015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-09-14 — best price $9.992020-11-30 — best price $1.992021-03-22 — best price $1.992021-07-12 — best price $0.992021-10-18 — best price $9.992021-12-02 — best price $1.492022-01-10 — best price $9.992022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-05-02 — best price $9.992022-07-11 — best price $1.872022-09-05 — best price $1.992022-11-07 — best price $1.492022-12-19 — best price $9.992023-02-09 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-05 — best price $1.492023-08-01 — best price $0.992023-09-14 — best price $1.992023-11-27 — best price $9.992024-01-11 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $1.992024-05-23 — best price $9.992024-07-12 — best price $9.992024-09-16 — best price $9.992024-11-21 — best price $9.992024-12-30 — best price $1.502025-02-03 — best price $1.502025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-05-13 — best price $9.992025-07-21 — best price $9.992025-09-16 — best price $9.992025-10-16 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-01-22 — best price $9.992026-03-16 — best price $9.992026-04-14 — best price $9.992026-06-22 — best price $9.992026-07-24 — best price $9.992026-08-21 — 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-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DRTSSpaceActionAliensCombatSci-fiTradingStrategySpace Sim

Census log

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

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