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You can now build custom factions in Astro Protocol. Pick a name, colors, emblem, portrait, home planet and choose from a pool of 107 traits to shape how the faction plays.

Each faction gets up to 4 traits and 2 trait points to spend. Traits cost different amounts, and negative traits like Astroprocessing Blindness give you extra points in exchange for a real drawback. A few examples of what traits can do:

• Precursors replaces your explorers with mighty Ancient ships
• Technological Geniuses cuts the cost of all techs by 2 gas, opening the door to a much heavier research focus

You can save and reuse multiple custom factions, have the AI design its own from scratch, or hand the AI a faction you built yourself and let it play.

Faction contest: we're picking up to 3 community-designed factions to implement into the game with unique art and mechanics. The 3 most-voted submissions plus 3 random voters win game keys. You can build your faction in the free demo and submit it to get chance to win a Steam key.

Submit your faction here: https://factions.nullvectorstudios.com/

Age of New Worlds is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around readable hex maps, deliberate choices, and the steady rise of an empire.

Found your first city, scout the unknown, improve terrain, guide research, build an economy, and decide when diplomacy gives way to war. Every turn asks you to weigh expansion, production, science, defense, and map control.

Proud to finally reveal the HUD and some gameplay for this epic intergalactic space 4X RTS game I’ve been developing. While I’m not ready to reveal the name, I’m proud to say that we are in deep development. Yes there will be a steam page soon so watch this space.

So what is this game ?

It’s a 2.5D intergalactic space 4X RTS game meaning you don’t have just one galaxy like other classic games but you have multiple galaxies. Zoom right out you’ll have the universe view. Focus into a galaxy and you’ll see thousands of stars ✨ Infact up to 2,000 stars will be available with up to 10 galaxies in the universe! That’s 20,000 star systems ! And of course there will be a galaxy setup so you can choose how big or small you want your worlds to be. The game will seed and procedurally generate every star with unique names and sectors and different shapes and sizes every new game you start.

Choose up to 6 factions at launch. Dominate and colonise star systems and eventually find a way of travelling to another galaxy with the right technology. There will be persistent ongoing wars that have been fought for hundreds of years and the game will keep track of all these in wars tab. Some battles were fought and lost THOUSANDS of years ago with ancient empires! Empire diplomacy is also important as well as trade ! Oh did I mention a comprehensive ship designer (work in progress! Much yet to be done ! )

Seamless Fleet Battles :

Conflicts, raids , invasions you name it ! This is a dangerous universe after all. Zoom in to battle to spectate different empires fighting or the command with your own empire in an Action RTS style combat system. Once the battle is done you can zoom right out and continue what you were doing all seamlessly. One living universe. Space pirates will want in on the action as they try to invade so be sure to befriend them , pay their demands or simply ignore but the consequences will be dire.

More will be revealed soon but in the mean time join the official r/space4X discord and join in the fun !

https://discord.gg/WHY8hmgXYx

Also subscribe to our official YouTube channel where we will do devblogs so keep your eyes peeled ! 👀

http://www.youtube.com/@sp4ce4x

Cheers 🥂

R/Space4X team ! 🪐✨

I’m the solo dev behind Galactum Meridian, a research-first space strategy game about leading humanity’s first deep survey beyond Sol.

I wanted to share a short video of the part of the game I’ve been spending a lot of time on lately: the star map and the way territory / control is represented in actual 3D space.

A lot of 4X games, even space ones, still handle strategic control in a mostly 2D way. Stellaris, Civilization, and similar games usually show borders as flat regions or overlays, sometimes with visual effects to give them more depth. That works well for readability, but I’ve always wanted to try something where the map is genuinely spatial. Homeworld did something similar to this many years ago, but I can't think of many other games that do this.

In Galactum Meridian, the star map is not just a backdrop. Nearby stars sit in 3D space, distance and depth matter, and the player’s science expedition is trying to build a working picture of what humanity can actually reach, study, and coordinate. But, it turns out... so are other expeditions, and you are competing against them for "control." Territory control is also being treated more like a 3D volume of scientific authority / stewardship rather than a flat painted border. The idea is that control is not just “I own this blob on a map,” but “we have enough survey data, probe coverage, research presence, and logistical reach to meaningfully operate here.”

I also have added a way of viewing stars in "slices", which only show a small snippet of the area of space in question. This works well for situations with dense star clusters.

The game is still deep in development, but I think I'm getting pretty close with how I want to present this part of the game. I may end up showing two expeditions with "contested" control over a star system, which I think could look very cool. The 3D map/control layer is one of the core things I want to get right because it affects how the whole game reads as a 4X.

I’d be curious what people here think about this kind of map presentation. Does a true 3D strategic map make territory/control feel more interesting, or do you think 4X maps need to stay flatter for readability?

Steam page is here if you want to wishlist/follow development:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4690110/Galactum_Meridian/

-Hedra Games

I’m developing the combat system for my game that will eventually be a 4x lite. It's built from the ground up around “wego” simultaneous turns. Instead of taking turns one by one, everyone issues orders for all their units at the same time, and then it plays out afterwards. This should mean online games with several players keeps moving fast, rather than everyone sitting around waiting for turns to happen one by one.

Conflicting orders are handled with no fastest clicker/internet advantage. If two units try to move into the same tile they both occupy it and "clash" the following turn.

There may be games out there with similar systems, but I haven’t personally played one. So I could use an outside perspective on whether this demo feels like it's heading in the right direction:

stravim.com

(Playable in browser. Desktop or mobile)

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an indie dev and I finally put together a trailer for my game, and I'd love to get some honest feedback from this community.

The game is called Tiny Factions. It’s a strategy and city-building game where you battle for dominance across tons of unique islands. You have to build up your settlements and expand your territory, all while defending your people against various crazy creature invasions.

There is also an exploration aspect: you can send your special Knight on perilous expeditions to the "Dark Continent" to gather epic loot and resources to strengthen your faction back home. I really tried to blend base-building with dynamic warfare and exploration.

I'd love to know what you think of the visuals and the pacing of the trailer. Does it catch your attention?

(Quick note: To respect the subreddit rules and avoid spam, I am not dropping any direct links here. But if this sounds like your kind of game and you want to support an indie dev, searching for "Tiny Factions" on Steam and dropping a wishlist would mean the absolute world to me!)

Thanks for your time!

Hello again, Reddit! Tiny Conquests team here.
We wanted to tell you a little more about our game.

Tiny Conquests is a turn-based 4X strategy game. Its buildings, units and technologies are inspired by world history between the mid-18th century to the beginning of World War I, without tying the game to a specific historical timeline or set of events.

Our goal is for each match to last around 20–45 minutes. You can explore the map, expand your nation, develop cities, research technologies and fight other nations, but a full match can be completed in one sitting.

Prosperity is the main way of measuring how your nation is developing. Almost everything you do contributes to it, including exploring tiles, growing cities, constructing buildings, researching technologies, training units and winning battles.

As your Prosperity increases, you unlock rewards, bonuses and Leaders.

Each nation has its own Leaders with passive bonuses connected to these areas. This means the same nation can develop differently depending on the choices you make.

There are also different ways to win depending on the game mode, so you do not always need to focus on conquest.

The first release will focus on single-player, with multiplayer planned for a later update.
Thanks for reading. We are happy to answer any questions about the game or its mechanics.
You can also join our subreddit at r/tinyconquests.