Endless Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the Endless universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic dominion.
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Very Positive (46 reviews) - 80% of the 46 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Very Positive (4,991 reviews) - 84% of the 4,991 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date: 4 Jul, 2012

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“Endless Space is smart, polished and intelligent game of countless permutations. Its strength lies in how carefully and how cleverly it's balanced, as well as how it rewards all kinds of playing styles. We haven't seen a strategy game quite like this in a while.”
8/10 – IGN

“In case it's not yet clear: go for it. If you are an experienced player, go for it. You are rather inexperienced with the 4X genre and it frightens you? Go for it.”
9/10 – FactorNews

“For a first game, it is surprisingly complex, demanding and motivating.”
82% – GameStar

About This Game



This galaxy is ancient, and its first intelligent life was the civilization we call the Endless. Long before our eyes gazed upon the stars they flew between them, though all that remains of this people is what we call Dust. A substance found scattered or in forgotten temples, it once gave powers to admirals and galactic governors. The galaxy will belong to the faction that can take control of the Dust and uncover its secrets…

A Born Leader

Guide one of eight civilizations as you strive for galactic dominion. Will you control the entire galaxy through subtle trade and diplomacy, explore every corner of the universe to find powerful artifacts and resources, overwhelm other civilizations with your advanced technologies, or destroy your enemies with massive armadas?


Endless Discoveries

With hundreds of star systems to explore, different planet types, luxuries and strategic resources to exploit, the mysteries within the Dust to master and a host of strange scientific phenomena to deal with, the player will have no lack of challenges. Hire heroes to become fleet admirals or system governors and discover five hero classes and their unique ability trees and specializations.


Space Opera

Experience Endless Space with state-of-the-art graphics and interface, switch between strategic battle decisions and long-term planning. Optimize each fleet for epic battles around contested stars. Create the perfect combinations from dozens of unique ships per civilization. Customize your ship with modules, armament, engines and special mods. The player has a plethora of choices of how to best destroy or dissuade his enemy.


Take on the Universe

Play against up to seven opponents and build up – or break – alliances at will. Discover an innovative and dynamic simultaneous turn-based gameplay. Permit instant jump-in for your ongoing online games. Define your own custom civilizations and confront the ones created by your friends.


Endless Replayability

Control every new game’s scope, from a quick match-up to an endless war. Generate an infinity of random galaxies where every start begins a new adventure. Modify the size, shape, density, age and a lot more to create your ideal galaxy. Choose from different victory conditions and adapt your strategy on the fly.

System Requirements

Windows
Mac OS X
    Minimum:
    • OS:Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7
    • Processor:Core 2 Duo Processor or Equivalent
    • Memory:2 GB RAM
    • Graphics:256 MB DX9 Compliant
    • DirectX®:9.0c
    • Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
    • Sound:DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
    Recommended:
    • OS:Windows XP SP3 / Vista / 7
    • Processor:Core i5/i7 or equivalent
    • Memory:2 GB RAM
    • Graphics:512 MB DX9 Compliant with PS 3.0 support
    • DirectX®:9.0c
    • Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
    • Sound:DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
    Minimum:
    • OS: MAC OS X 10.6.7 or higher.
    • Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
    • Memory: 2GB
    • Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000
    • Hard Drive: 2GB
    Recommended:
    • OS:MAC OS X 10.6.7 or higher.
    • Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
    • Memory: 4GB
    • Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000
    • Hard Drive: 2GB
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Buyung Kilat
( 20.0 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Master of Orion have always been special to me and I always look for the next great space strategy game. This game was fun the first ten hours. It was addictive even. Colony building was somewhat simpler than Galactic Civilization which was a plus in the beginning but became a little monotonous later on. Nonetheless, I kept going. I wanted to rule the galaxy afterall. Then the game totally went to ♥♥♥♥ for me after the population started revolting literally everywhere. It was crippling and completely progress killing. Pretty much stopped me cold from playing any further.

4.5/10.
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Jiinouga
( 20.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Endless Space is a very interesting and beautiful 4x game.
Get the DLC if you're going to buy it, though
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Invader Zak
( 55.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
Great Game, but needs some refinement, good thing a sequel is on the horizon.
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synthetic
( 18.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
Endless Space is a complex, and beautiful 4X strategy game that draws natural comparisons to games like Sins of a Solar Empire (Endless Legend, possibly Civ). If you don't like having to spend possibly hundreds of hours exploring tech trees, managing morale, supply lines, and configuring ship outfits this game isn't for you.

My one gripe (with most 4X games for that matter) is that the pace is often (intentionally) slow. Even after learning the mechanics; skirmishes against AI will take multiple hours. This is fine if you plan on casually playing a game over the course of days/weeks/months (which I'm told many people do), but in many cases the larger strategy (i.e. any of the 'X's) will largely overwhelm the rest of the game, to the point that most tactical aspects will feel mechanical, which leads to a lot of largely unfulfilling early games (which will burn 10-50 hours).

If you appreciate the zen of turn-based strategy, you'll love this--and for the money, playing this game is effectively identical to Endless Legend (which I believe is currently more expensive).
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Ravished By The Implausibility
( 16.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 6 August
A fun game with long matches and a steep learning curve. Cool ship designs, Love the multiple upgrade paths.
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Scuzzlebutt
( 87.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 3 August
Quite good space 4X with, as you'd expect, a steep learning curve. A few too many elements are random for my tastes but overall it's a solid game.
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Rycer
( 50.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 July
Funny info, cheatengine works (values are Float) and you can still earn steam achievements.
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Weedotronic
( 38.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 July
i played this game for a bit. and i think i have a fairly opinion on it.

Its a good Economy game but everyone who seeks a Indeep Ship Builder or commanding ur ships in battle will be dissapointet.

Its a ok game tho not worth the price of 30 Euro.
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AJ1AJ
( 26.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 July
> had the game in my inventory
> decided to play one day for one hour at night
> started up a game with a decent looking class that i liked the stats of
> decided to hate the game because it felt too slow (i never played turn based games before)
> Slept for a few hours and then went straight back to playing
> played the whole of the next day to try to win this one game i started
> fails and the first team to win was another team
> my allies leave me in disagreement of starting a war with the ones who won
> in revenge kills this race of aliens
> old allies request peace and accepted.
> peace treaty with allies is removed due to me having high threat with such a high score.
> starts to take over them too.
> finished researching tech tree
> finally finishes well into the morning of the next day with supremacy victory (victory in every section of the game?)
> looks at the class i chose and realised it was the DLC's class not a normal class
> looks at playtime and realises it was 26 hrs of almost solid gameplay just to finish one game
> ...
> Then remembers that this was on newbie difficulty...
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natertaters7
( 76.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 26 July
played game about a hundred times against friend, lost every time. Played again recently and won by gaining a lot of friends. Message?
Friendship is magic
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15 of 15 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
212.6 hrs on record
Posted: 16 July
So I bought Stellaris a month or so ago and liked it. Have always been a fan of 4X playing Civilization and similar games. I enjoyed Stellaris, but it wasn't exactly everything I want. I read about Endless Space and figured I would give it a try. It is quite simply an amazing game. Very well done with tons of replay value. I highly recommend this game for anyone who is a fan of 4X. The ability to customize your faction sets this apart from both Stellaris and Civilization in my opinion.
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13 of 18 people (72%) found this review helpful
14 people found this review funny
Recommended
54.7 hrs on record
Posted: 12 July
1. Purchase Endless Space EE during summer sale
2. Play first match as Pilgrims
3. Get butchered by Hissho
4. Start new match as Vaulters
5. Butcher the Hissho
6. Start new match with custom race; Sophons affinity, Sowers traits, Horatio appearance
7. Name new race after myself
8. Make the universe great again
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4 of 5 people (80%) found this review helpful
Recommended
132.4 hrs on record
Posted: 16 July
The AI can trouble you for houres until you get used to it.
fun 4x game
nice ambience
nice soundtrack
lovely combat scenes
worth the price

this franchise could be extended by DLCs or so on. iread something Endless space2 is about to come out now after years.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
99.5 hrs on record
Posted: 15 July
This is a great game that I recommend anyone who likes this type of game to buy, I have only one headache that every time I see it just makes me want to scream "WHY DO THIS?!?!?!?" at my monitor and that is the Hero system. Whoever designed them to be both useful on the ground and in space should have been dragged out the back of teh office and beaten with a stick till this was changed, as it cuts the usefulness of most of them in half. Having ones for space and ones for the ground would have made this game a lot more enjoyable than it is for me as I find i have to keep quitting and restarting the game around 5-10 times each time I want to start a new game so that I get at least 1 ground based Hero to begin with, but yeah other than that small headache the game is great :)
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
16.6 hrs on record
Posted: 6 August
A fun game with long matches and a steep learning curve. Cool ship designs, Love the multiple upgrade paths.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
18.4 hrs on record
Posted: 7 August
Endless Space is a complex, and beautiful 4X strategy game that draws natural comparisons to games like Sins of a Solar Empire (Endless Legend, possibly Civ). If you don't like having to spend possibly hundreds of hours exploring tech trees, managing morale, supply lines, and configuring ship outfits this game isn't for you.

My one gripe (with most 4X games for that matter) is that the pace is often (intentionally) slow. Even after learning the mechanics; skirmishes against AI will take multiple hours. This is fine if you plan on casually playing a game over the course of days/weeks/months (which I'm told many people do), but in many cases the larger strategy (i.e. any of the 'X's) will largely overwhelm the rest of the game, to the point that most tactical aspects will feel mechanical, which leads to a lot of largely unfulfilling early games (which will burn 10-50 hours).

If you appreciate the zen of turn-based strategy, you'll love this--and for the money, playing this game is effectively identical to Endless Legend (which I believe is currently more expensive).
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
7.5 hrs on record
Posted: 13 July
I'm no expert on 4x games...

That being said, I got this on release and enjoyed it quite a lot, it's immersive, makes use of a nice setting with neat races and the gameplay was fun.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
232.3 hrs on record
Posted: 18 July
By far the best 4x game I've played in many many years. Has infinite replayability and massive depth. The only down side is space battles take a bit of getting used to and involve a very heavy pinch of luck.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
55.3 hrs on record
Posted: 7 August
Great Game, but needs some refinement, good thing a sequel is on the horizon.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
87.7 hrs on record
Posted: 3 August
Quite good space 4X with, as you'd expect, a steep learning curve. A few too many elements are random for my tastes but overall it's a solid game.
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