Star Traders: 4X Empires overview

Overview

Star Traders: 4X Empires comes from Trese Brothers and is published by Trese Brothers. It arrived on Steam on Dec 16, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Star Traders: 4X Empires's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 11 October 2026 - 20:22:11 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 63% positive across 82 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Star Traders: 4X Empires is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Star Traders: 4X Empires has sold up to 8,927 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $64,174. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Star Traders: 4X Empires overview details

Star Traders: 4X Empires combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire among the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you must lead the refugees of the great Exodus to a new home in hostile space and build a new galaxy-spanning civilization. To survive in the dark reaches of space, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology. This challenging civilization-building game expands upon the universe of the original Star Traders RPG. As the leader of a splinter group who have fallen behind the main fleet, you have no choice but to settle nearby habitable worlds, stake your claim and try to prosper. Your forces will face hostile aliens at every turn and your fleets will do battle in a challenging tactical conflicts across the solar systems. As the waves of stellar conflict wash across your empire, you’ll face invasions, devastating planetary bombardments and need to exact the same on alien infestations to expand your empire. Within your own imperium, you must manage your economy, political realm, and technological research. The squabbling factions vie for power, unable to lay old rivalries to rest. Only your deft political maneuvering can build treaties and harmony over discord and war. From the helm, you must also construct a mighty economy, one capable of surviving the devastation of war and the attacks of political adversaries. A sprawling technology tree lies before you and your choice of technologies will determine the strategy of your galactic civilization. To survive, you’ll need to overcome some of these challen…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Star Traders: 4X Empires is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 11 October 2026 - 20:22:11 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 63% positive reviews.

Overview tags

4XSci-fiTurn-Based StrategyTop-DownDiplomacyTurn-Based CombatEconomyPoliticsGrand StrategyManagementBuildingSpaceAliensSpaceshipsGrid-Based Movement

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