Space Empires V
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in…
Space Empires V is a simulator developed by Strategy First, released 1 September 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.00 at GamersGate.
What Space Empires V is
Space Empires V is a simulator game developed by Strategy First and released in 2006. It was published by Malfador Machinations. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy. New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely 'moddable' and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix. Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy. Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to…
How it plays
Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Space Empires V holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.00 at GamersGate, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Space Empires V launched on 1 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez, LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy.
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