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Open Source 4X, Built for Slow Strategy
Build an empire over weeks, not minutes.
DJ4XOL is a free and open source turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by classic 90s PBEM design. You expand from a homeworld, manage colonies and minerals, commission fleets, research technologies, and resolve each turn through deliberate planning.
This is the opposite of fast-paced. Join an hourly or daily generation game and it becomes a passive 10-minute check-in habit.
How It Plays
- Choose or create a game, then design your race and starting approach.
- Plan production and fleet orders between turn generations.
- Resolve movement, combat, invasions, and economy on each turn.
- Read reports and messages, then queue your next decisions.
Features
- Multi-game server with account registration, profile onboarding, invites, email updates, and spectator mode
- Responsive web UI with Classic, LCARS, and Win95 themes, plus public landing/gallery pages
- Optional advanced player CLI interface in the terminal and web game view
- Race creation with balance-point budgeting and habitability tuning
- Starmap planning with fleet movement, intercept, transfer, merge, colonise, scuttle, and turn reports
- Colony economy with population, mines, factories, labs, defences, shipyards, and terraforming
- Research categories, allocations, prerequisites, unlocks, and technology directory/help
- Space combat, invasions, fleet fuel, scanners, and other core turn-resolution systems
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Roadmap
Current Priorities
- Gameplay and tech tree progression balancing
- Diplomacy
- Ship design (basic, then advanced)
- Trade contracts/negotiation
- Mine fields
- Fuel factories and fleet-to-fleet refuelling
- Instant merge/split fleet interaction screen
- Custom server help pages (wiki/CMS style)
Future Possibilities
- Stability systems, unrest, and breakaway colonies
- Megaproject infrastructure such as citadels, stargates, micromanagers, and superweapons
- Garrisons and other colony structures that trade economy for stability or defence
- More extreme anomaly and galaxy events, including disappearing worlds and new-star creation
- Data-driven ship components, hulls, and tech publishing workflows
- Experimental setup/admin tooling and balance controls
- Pluggable AI player types and LLM-assisted opponents or tooling