# Space Empires V

Summer DB entity ID: 65177c57\-abb8\-412c\-87f6\-681cea447d0a

Steam App ID: 1690

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 					  24 bit 3D real\-time rendered graphics\.  					  Detailed Tactical Combat \(and a combat simulator to test your designs\!\)\.  					  New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Freighters, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, Drones, and Weapons Platforms\.  					  Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles\.  					  Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each\.  					  Huge Technology Tree: Thousands of tech levels with hundreds of components and facilities\.  					  Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc\.  					  Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech\.  					  14 unique races to play or customize \(or just create your own\!\)  					  Randomly generated map for every game \(or load an existing map\)\.  					  Complete game customization allowed by players \("mods"\)\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Malfador Machinations

- Publisher: Strategy First

- Release date: Oct 16, 2006

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Multi\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1690/0000000648\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1759953536, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1690/0000000649\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1759953536, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1690/0000000650\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1759953536, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1690/0000000651\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1759953536, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1690/0000000652\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1759953536

- Price: 1499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 13

- Steam review count: 480

- Steam positive reviews: 349

- Steam negative reviews: 131

- Steam positive percentage: 72.70833333333333%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/65177c57-abb8-412c-87f6-681cea447d0a/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/65177c57-abb8-412c-87f6-681cea447d0a/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-28T17:09:18\.81298\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-28T17:09:20\.389167\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-28T17:09:19\.896068\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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