Close Encounters DLC Announced!
Breich Games
Commanders,
We're happy to announce Space Imperia 4X: Close Encounters ! The launch date will be sometime in Q1 of 2027. Check out the DLC page and wishlist it now!
To celebrate the announcement, the base game and the soundtrack will be 20% off through the weekend!
Words cannot express how excited I am to be building these modules. I originally started this project because I was never able to get regular games in of more than just the base game. Close Encounters , in my opinion, is core content and makes this beautiful system truly shine.
Close Encounters will have everything in the first expansion of the board game, including:
- Ground Troops & Ground Combat: skip bombarding and just take over the planet
- Titans: 5 hull size, 2 damage inducing floating orbitals
- Boarding Ships: I'll just eliminate your crew, take your ship over, then scrap it to steal your technology
- Ship Experience: rewards stacking ships in one Combat Group and gives buffs (and enemy debuffs) as experience is gained
- Empire Advantages: powerful asymmetric starting powers (easily my favorite module from Close Encounters)
- Alien Technology: full-game buffs gained by colonizing Alien planets
- Unique Ships: design your own ship to counter the enemy
- Flagships: special, 3 hull size ships that everyone starts with
- New Technology Levels: Terraforming 2 (miners can mine nebula); Exploration 2 (ships can react to combat); Fast Battlecruisers (BCs get +1 movement in the first turn of every round)
- Facilities: an alternate version of the economic system
All of these modules are plug and play, giving players the optionality to play how they want for a given game.
Brett
This announcement was originally published by Breich Games on Steam on Sep 17, 2026.
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