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Star Traders: 4X Empires

Trese Brothers · 2014-12-16

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 18, 2014 (Mac), Dec 16, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 16, 2014 (Linux)

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

0
playing now
63%
positive of 82 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 66% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 82 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2020-11-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-01-012026-08-112015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-05-18 — best price $9.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-05-09 — best price $9.992016-08-29 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-01-13 — best price $9.992018-03-11 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-02-12 — best price $9.992019-07-22 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-09 — best price $9.992023-09-04 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-18 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-13 — best price $9.992024-07-25 — best price $9.992024-11-15 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $1.992025-09-05 — best price $1.992025-10-20 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-04-15 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-08-11 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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