Space Empires III is a 4X strategy game developed and published by Malfador Machinations in 1997 for Windows. In the game, the player controls a planet in the solar system, and must make decisions about research, ship designs and diplomacy.
In Space Empires, the player assumes the role of the single leader of a race of intelligent beings that has recently acquired the technology required to build large fully space-based ships for interplanetary and interstellar travel.
Starting out with only a few possible hull sizes for their ships, on which they can place any number of components to essentially create a unique ship, the player can research new hull sizes and components to use with them, eventually being able to build ships ten times the size of his original hull size.
The components available to the player can vary greatly, from ship bridges, long-range scanners and shield generators to emergency supply components that, when used, will be destroyed but will allow a ship to continue moving for a longer time, and of course, weapons of various kinds, boarding parties, cloaking devices right up to Dyson sphere construction material and star-destroying devices.
Space Empires III is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
How to play on Windows
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