Star Traders 4X Empires Elite
Step into the gaming world with Star Traders 4X Empires Elite, one of the top $4.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Trese Brothers LLC, this captivating Strategy game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 22nd June 2014, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 7th November 2016.
Whether you have a liking for Strategy, Role Playing, games, Star Traders 4X Empires Elite is sure to keep you hooked!
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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 challenges, to succeed you must master them all.
Take control through the strategic use of spies, economics, politics, technology and advanced weaponry in the most engaging, expansive and intense turn-based sci-fi title. Rebuild the human civilization from the ashes of interstellar war to become the galaxy’s ultimate leader in Star Trader 4X Empires.
FEATURES:
- Grow a ragtag band of survivors into a new galactic empire.
- Protect your colonies of galactic refugees from alien attack.
- Employ devious political and economic machinations to expand your domain.
- Use spies and espionage to get the upperhand on your enemies.
- Research and build incredible new ships, weapons and technologies.
- Trade with a vast universe full of rich, dynamic characters.
- Explore the galaxy and uncover its many secrets.
- Multiple difficulty levels and customizable map sizes.
- Risk everything to rescue refugees and keep them safe.
The Star Traders 4X Elite experience allows you to:
- Play on more than twice the maps, including large and huge Quadrants
- Play the Great Houses & Clans – Thulun, Javat, and Steel Song
- Unlock the Elite tech tree and gain access to hundreds of new upgrades
- Battle against twice the alien enemies and AI types
- Research 180 Technologies, 100 Weapon Types and 9 unique Hull Variants
Get ready for the fight of your life in Star Traders 4X Empires.
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What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Star Traders 4X Empires Elite on 7th November 2016:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- New Map for Free "The Rim: 100×50 Map (50 Worlds)"
- Added New "Superscale Manufacturing 3" Tech
- Added New "Factory 8" Upgrade
- Improved Turn Recent Events List
- Improved UI of Tech Tree, summary display
- Fixes for "Degla: 100×100 Map (150 Worlds)"
- Fixes for "Degla: 80×80 Map (90 Worlds)"
- Tech Tree Updates and RP Cost Balancing
- Improved Xeno Colonization Planner AI
- Minor Performance Improvements / Fixes
- Fixed crashes in Research Project List and Technology List
Hear from the Players – Star Traders 4X Empires Elite Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Star Traders 4X Empires Elite:
Updated review: the game that just keeps on giving. Several improvements to the late game balance have been added in the latest patch. This is one of the most original 4x games we’ve ever played, with polite and hardworking devs and a very active community. The try before you buy model is amazing, and it has some of the tightest gameplay we’ve seen in a long time. Do yourself a favor and buy it, we’ve never deleted it off our iPad since we got it.
We don’t often write good reviews – either a game is good and it gets lots of good comments or it doesn’t. But we are making an exception in this case. This is a good game – tons of technology developments to research, extensive development potential of your planets, all kinds of ship design possibilities, etc. Also, the player’s "race" is broken into three factions (which you can choose in the full version) – all of which have their own special bonuses. But the political infighting among your factions brings a whole new level to the "develop and conquer" genre. Don’t take our word for it – try the free version and then purchase the full version after you have experienced it! Our only real complaint is that the game can "drag" at the end. It would be nice if the developers would add a "mercy" ending whereby you have the option of accepting victory when you control a certain percentage of the galaxy and perhaps also have a certain advantage in number/technology level of existing ships. It would also be nice if there were a random map generator, but there are enough pre-set maps to keep a person entertained for years. We look forward to future updates of this game!
Single Player 4X. Unique in that the game has 3 factions under your control (and they tend to dislike each other), and you must expand, explore, exploit, and research technologies while one or more enemy races are trying to exterminate you. Imaging trying to fend off an invasion while 2 of your factions have trade embargoes against your strongest ship builder. Will your trade summit be successful in time to turn around the economy? So many maps, so little time. Active forum helps you decide on the type of game you enjoy as well. 5 stars! Helpful forums, and continual upgrades/balancing/improvements from the developers. What it is: 1. Thought provoking 4X, with internal politics as a major component of gameplay 2. Deep Tech Tree 3. Heavy Ship Customization – Start with x amount of mass, add to your hearts content within these constraints; engines, weapons, shields, crew training, etc 4. Tons of random maps, choice of number and strength of enemies, choice of 6 factions (and $2 IAP to get 3 more); very replayable, great value 4x game. 5. Playable on iPhone or iPad (but cannot start on one and finish on another). Also available for desktop play via Steam. What it is NOT: 1. Easy to learn. Tutorial is eh. Someone FINALLY made a lets play series on youtube which explains the ins outs and helped this player learn. Once over that hump, it is a very deep, very satisfying, infinitely re-playable game. Player forum is active as well. 2. Multiplayer.. Single player only 3. Demonstration of Unreal 3D. Simple 2D graphics actually suit this game very well. The recent performance improvements, continual growing tech tree, and amazing strategy sharing on their forum make this must-have 4X game! New maps, ships, weapon improvements from constant updating from the developer make this a must have for 4X space games.
Very fun, Very addictive! A great space game to play. This game can give you long lasting saves that you can take your time on. The game offers colonization, politics, exploration, space battles, and research for new technologies.
Great game!! Plays like MOO, but better!!!!
The Trese Brothers dont make bad games, full stop. ST4X is a mighty fine 4X experience, mobile or otherwise, with some cool innovations around multi-faction colonies, and some seriously awesome user interface design. They have built a rich universe with the Star Traders property, full of lore that is fun to dive into across multiple excellent titles. When you purchase a TB game, you arent just getting the software. In spite of always working on something new, these guys actively engage with their players, listen to the feedback, and update games that are sometimes years old. We sincerely am baffled at where they find the time. Trese fan for life. Buy this game and support a couple of cool guys who care deeply about their fans and the hobby.
So we start the game and get about an hour in, all of a sudden spy battle after spy battle hits us and we’re in debt. We wait for a while to get more income, but by now our worlds are over populated and cost more to maintain than they bring in and we can’t do anything. There needs to be something done about this.
update This is, by far, in our favorite 3 4X titles on mobile; Star Traders, Starbase Orion & Autumn Dynasty Warlords. The consistant updates have made this game something really special, and one that we fully recommend to all 4X fans out there… GET IT!!! original review we wound up picking this up because of Templar Battleforce and Heroes Of Steel. Both are fantastic games and have received phenomenal post-release support. Anyway, there arn’t too many 4X titles on the AppStore that I’d fully recommend to someone who’s looking for an incredibly deep and strategic experience, but Star Traders 4X Empires has definitely earned itself a spot on that very short list (joining Ascendancy, Starbase Orion and Autumn Dynasty Warlords). If you’re a fan of the genre, I’d whole heartedly recommend this one. If you’re new to the genre, or looking for something that will help get you into the genre, I’d lean more towards Warlords or Ascendancy. As deep and fantastical as Star Traders 4X is, we think we would have put the game away and maybe never played it again if we had yet to play a 4X game previously. While the tutorials in-game are decent, you’ll probably want to read a manual or guide online before diving in (even if you are a seasoned strategy gamer). Though, that just makes it all the sweeter once it all clicks. =oD.
This game is pure Trese Brothers gold, just like normal.
If galactic expansion and the complete destruction of the Xeno scourge are your thing, than we will make this brief. A fully loaded 4X title that pits your strategy against the alien hordes. *do you bombard them from orbit or land the ground troops? Is one of the many questions you’ll find yourself asking as you blast your way through the ranks of the alien hierarchy. Ps. We may sound like a shill, but 100% am not.
Love this angle. These games are all 5 stars! Love the Trese Brothers!
There are several details that make this game unique in the 4X genre. The updates keep making it better and better. It’s on it’s way to being our favorite 4X game. We like the art pack AIP. We’re happy to support the Devs this way. Keep up the good work!
We have always loved 4X games but this one actually surprised us. This is the first 4X game we have ever played that truly added a new aspect to the genre.
We suggest that you change the borders to a smooth line instead of squares, but it is our new favorite game.
These guys make some of the best designed games. We own and play all of them. Easily worth twice as much as we paid.
Like a lot of this game. Would like to see a way to give movement commands to a group of ships. We spent a lot if our time creating carrier battle groups that were very tedious to deploy.
If you love 4x games and developers that continually improve their software, look no further! This is the only 4x game on iOS that can possibly dethrone Starbase Orion. We love it!
This is a fun update to turn-based strategy games of yesteryear. In it, you colonize, build, explore technologies, and prepare for war. Think of it as Civilization for space. So far, we are enjoying it. Some actions seem a bit clunky, but overall, it’s worth it.