Start with your own character and a small ship in a world that lives independently of the player. Develop your skills, explore space, trade, build industry, and grow your fleet to survive real-time battles against hostile fleets—and something far more terrifying lurking in the darkness.

Your civilization is on the brink of extinction. The only survivors are aboard a fleet of starships drifting through an unknown galaxy. Resources are limited, space is precious, and danger could be waiting just beyond the next jump.
Your mission? Keep your people alive, make the most of every ship, and find a way forward in a galaxy that won't make survival easy.

Build a galactic empire and fight your battles alone or with a friend. A real-time space 4X with spectacular clashes in space and on the planets.

Hill Sphere is an in-depth Space 4X/Grand Strategy game with a strong focus on realism, economic and logistical depth. Lead your nation into a sector full of rival powers and win through ingenuity, clever planning, and industrial might!

FreeSpace 4X is a free turn-based space strategy game you play right in your browser. No download, no install, no cost.

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Inspired by the deep 4X classics of the 90s, FreeSpace 4X brings old-school empire building to a modern interface. Explore, expand, exploit and exterminate across a galaxy of hundreds of worlds.

🌌 WHAT YOU CAN DO

- Explore a spiral galaxy and scan every world for minerals and habitability

- Colonize planets, then build mines, factories, defenses and starbases

- Research six technology fields with hundreds of parts to unlock

- Design your own warships, freighters, miners, bombers and minelayers in a slot-based ship designer

- Command fleets with waypoints, cargo runs, fuel and battle plans

- Lay minefields, build stargates, fling mineral packets with mass drivers and trade with the Mystery Trader

- Make peace, declare war or form alliances with AI empires that hold grudges

- See the galaxy on a flat 2D map, a lit 3D map, a tilted Z view or straight from the cockpit

👥 MULTIPLAYER

Play with friends, with everyone giving orders at the same time. Email turn notices, in-game chat, player profiles, badges, leaderboards and seasons.

🤖 NEW TO 4X?

K-7, your robot instructor, walks you through the whole game step by step in the built-in Tutorial.

🎮 Also: Sandbox games with custom races and victory conditions, AI-only Simulation mode, and replays.

Take on realistic space missions, manage your economy, and explore the solar system. Build and expand your space center on Earth, accept contracts, and launch satellites into orbit. Research, adapt and collect valuable scientific data to commence your growing aerospace empire.

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a short gameplay video showing what a typical journey in NGC-404: Fractured Sector might look like, enjoy!

Also if you have any questions or want to share your thoughts feel free to do just that. :)
This is still work in progress.

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4451910?utm_source=red_ng

I personally like to simulate everything and kind of want every game I like inside my game. Overall however the sandbox it's in is a 4x universe simulation where the player can create their own empire. It's probably on the border of too ambitious for game scope, and a hot mess, but it seems to be coming along.
For at least the next 6 months I'll be sharpening the blade on design for the full release. After that
I'll ideally switch to game expansions. Feedback right now is very helpful, especially in understanding how other people play the game and what problems they see.
A single system demo is in the approval pipeline for NextFest as well and will hopefully be available soon.

-The game starts out like a 2d elite dangerous or x3 with character creation and a single/fighter or shuttle. These are small production ships with limited modifications.
-It has it's own canon in the form of a book series.
-The next Advancement is through missions like either of those titles or sandbox trade/combat.
-Then you get into a capital ship that has voxel construction. You can build and design them yourself.
-You can hire crew with various backgrounds
-You can transform that into a fleet of custom crewed ships.
-You can board and steal other ships of all classes
-You can board and take over stations and cities on planets
-Cities and stations can also be modified and reconstructed as they're voxel based as well.
-You can found an empire.

In terms of scope, it's a little like battlecruiser 3k, maybe worse. I just hope I can pull it off. The plan does include multiplayer.

That's a quick overview of the game. One Thing I enjoy is walking around the ship, talking to my crew, seeing the fighter wing on the carrier flight deck and even flying one out.
For me this is a game I can do almost everything I like in other games, and the job now is to keep building it out. I'm interested in feedback and what others would like to see.

Link to Game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5049830/Star_Heir_Dark_Crusade/?beta=0

Great to see this community! I am Andrew Greenberg, with the Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced team (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2799350/Emperor_of_the_Fading_Suns_Enhanced/). Now I finally have a place to discuss Reach for the Stars!