FreeSpace 4X

FreeSpace 4X is a free turn-based space strategy game you play right in your browser. No download, no install, no cost.

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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.