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Endless Space

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Endless Space
Endless Space cover
Developers
Amplitude Studios
GOG.com General Arcade[1]
Publishers
2012-2016 Amplitude Studios
2016-present Sega
Retail Iceberg Interactive
Engines
Unity 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows July 4, 2012
macOS (OS X) August 31, 2012
Reception
Metacritic 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres 4X, TBS
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Endless
Endless Space on HowLongToBeat
Endless Space on IGDB
Endless Space on MobyGames
Endless Space on Wikipedia
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Endless Space is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view 4X and TBS game in the Endless series.

General information

Free to all Games2Gether users (user account is free).[3]
Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Official website
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Collection.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
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Gold Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Definitive Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Definitive Edition.
Windows
Humble Store
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Definitive Edition. Collection also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Definitive Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Disharmony
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use -nologo launch parameter[citation needed]

Game data

Steam Cloud. Player must select either cloud or local storage by Steam Cloud checkbox.
Steam Cloud. Player must select either cloud or local storage by Steam Cloud checkbox.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AMPLITUDE Studios\Endless Space\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Endless Space\Registry.xml
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/208140/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Endless Space\Users\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Endless Space\Save\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Endless Space/Users/
~/Library/Application Support/Endless Space/Disharmony/Save/
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Endless Space\Save\Cloud\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/208140/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Separate save files for cloud and local. When saving or loading the game, user must check "steam cloud" option.

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Resolutions above 1366x768.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Part of higher presets.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Part of higher presets. MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Regular and half.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
In-game cap up to 200 FPS, only enabled if Vsync is disabled. Can be set higher from configuration file.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.
Game only offers unity graphics presets, however there's tooltip to show what settings are changed. Following table shows all the values for presets:
Fantastic Beautiful Good Simple Fast Fastest
Pixel light count 4 3 2 1 0 0
Texture quality Full res Full res Full res Full res Full res Half res
Anisotropic textures Forced on Forced on Per texture Per texture Disabled Disabled
Anti aliasing 8x Multi Sampling 2x Multi Sampling Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled
Shadows Hard and soft shadows Hard and soft shadows Hard and soft shadows Hard shadows only Disable shadows Disable shadows
Shadow resolution High resolution High resolution Medium resolution Low resolution Low resolution Low resolution
Shadow projection Close fit Close fit Close fit Close fit Close fit Close fit
Shadow cascades Four cascades Two cascades Two cascades No cascades No cascades No cascades
Shadow distance 300 150 100 30 30 30

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, ambience, GUI, music and effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Not muted by default.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Translations can be found as plain text from <path-to-game>\Public\Localization\ for easy translation.

Network

Multiplayer types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD
Multiplayer Steamworks

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo (2 GHz or better)
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 2400 or higher
Nvidia GeForce 8600M or higher
Intel HD Graphics 3000


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 4.1.5f1[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/208140/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (208140) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition | General Arcade - last accessed on 2023-07-07
  2. Verified by User:Vetle on 2017-05-23
  3. Steam Community Announcement - Endless Space is now FREE FOREVER! - last accessed on 2019-01-26