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5th Frontier, The New Space Race

A 4x Turn-Based Single Player Strategic Space game. Design and build Your own fleet of space ships, to conquer the Galaxy.

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J. C. SpringBourne
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About the Game

A 4x Turn-Based Single Player Strategic Space game.

Design and build Your own fleet of space ship, to conquer the Galaxy.

You start as a governor of a single planet, and fighting your way to A Galaxy wide Empire.

Find your path, using 100 of different weapons and technologies.

Select how you want to build your own planet, and what to research.

Create your own Space Ships, with Your own pick of weapons.

Gather the ships in a large fleet, and journey out into the universe to fight for your place.

This is inspired by the old game VGA Planets, and the Space Empire Series.

This goes beyond traditional 4X games.

The 5th 'X' is the era of mega-engineering and harvesting the universe.

  • eXplore: You send scouts to uncover the map, and later the whole universe; Finding hidden places and new planets.

  • eXpand: You claim new planets and colonize them to building cities or facilities.

  • eXploit: You gather resources from your facilites to make your empire stronger and richer.

  • eXterminate: You attack your rivals to remove them from the game, or to do gunboat diplomacy.

  • eXamine: Do research, explore the vaste Tech tree and build your own specialized Tech Tree.

  • eXchange (Diplomacy, Espionage & Trade):

  • eXcavate (Salvaging & Reverse-Engineering)

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