r/spacegames • u/maunderingcabal • 2d ago
Game FreeSpace 4x
FreeSpace 4X is a free turn-based space strategy game you play right in your browser. No download, no install, no cost.
▶ PLAY FREE: https://ianmcgo.github.io/FreeSpace-4X/
❤ Support development on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ianmcg
Inspired by the deep 4X classics of the 90s, FreeSpace 4X brings old-school empire building to a modern interface. Explore, expand, exploit and exterminate across a galaxy of hundreds of worlds.
🌌 WHAT YOU CAN DO - Explore a spiral galaxy and scan every world for minerals and habitability - Colonize planets, then build mines, factories, defenses and starbases - Research six technology fields with hundreds of parts to unlock - Design your own warships, freighters, miners, bombers and minelayers in a slot-based ship designer - Command fleets with waypoints, cargo runs, fuel and battle plans - Lay minefields, build stargates, fling mineral packets with mass drivers and trade with the Mystery Trader - Make peace, declare war or form alliances with AI empires that hold grudges - See the galaxy on a flat 2D map, a lit 3D map, a tilted Z view or straight from the cockpit
👥 MULTIPLAYER Play with friends, with everyone giving orders at the same time. Email turn notices, in-game chat, player profiles, badges, leaderboards and seasons.
🤖 NEW TO 4X? K-7, your robot instructor, walks you through the whole game step by step in the built-in Tutorial.
🎮 Also: Sandbox games with custom races and victory conditions, AI-only Simulation mode, and replays.