# 4-Exodus (4Xodus)

> 4-Exodus is a free, browser-based 4X space strategy game. Players lead one of 10 unique alien factions to explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate across a procedurally generated galaxy. Build colonies, research technologies, wage war, forge alliances, and pursue multiple victory conditions.

Play at: https://4xodus.com/play
Website: https://4xodus.com

## Key Features

- 10 unique playable factions with distinct abilities, lore, and pixel art portraits
- Procedural galaxy generation with diverse star systems and planet types
- Colony management with buildings, population, and resource production
- Deep tech tree with physics, biology, engineering, computing, and military branches
- Fleet combat with tactical ship classes and upgrades
- Diplomacy system with treaties, trade, councils, and espionage
- Space hazards including monsters, pirates, and 6 roving raider factions
- Multiple victory conditions: domination, economic, scientific, diplomatic, and ascendancy
- No downloads required — runs entirely in the browser

## Playable Factions

- Terran Federation: Adaptable humans who excel at diplomacy and industrial production. They form strong alliances but lack the martial fervor and rapid population growth of other species.
- T'klack Hive: Insectoid swarms driven by an insatiable hunger. Unmatched at agriculture and reproduction, but their singular hive-mind alienates other races and struggles with advanced scientific or energy theories.
- Krai Dominion: Fearsome warriors with unmatched combat prowess and a rapidly growing population. Their society is built entirely around war, which often complicates diplomacy and slows their intellectual pursuits.
- Nexari Ascendancy: A psionic aquatic species of brilliant scholars and diplomats. Their telepathic intellect grants immense research benefits, but their fragile bodies and reliance on ancient coral-cities limit their industrial output, energy generation, and growth.
- Voss Trade League: Master merchants whose entire society revolves around wealth and commerce. They dominate the galaxy through energy generation, production, and trade agreements, but their mercenary nature puts them at a disadvantage in open war and agricultural labor.
- Drift Nomads: Resourceful spacefarers born in the void. Hardened by life on ancient generation ships, they are adept fighters, scientists, and scavengers, but struggle to adapt to the heavy industry and agriculture of planetary life.
- Auric Syndicate: Cybernetic industrialists obsessed with efficiency. Their augmented bodies drive massive manufacturing output, combat precision, and steady growth, though their cold logic alienates allies and drains immense energy reserves.
- Shade Enclave: Lethal shadow operatives who strike from the dark. Their society excels at warfare, espionage-driven research, and hoarding energy, but their profound secrecy strains diplomatic trust and hampers large-scale industry and food production.
- Mech Assembly: A collective of synthetic intelligence driven by pure logic. They excel at research, manufacturing, combat, and self-replication, but the massive power requirements of their machinery drain energy reserves, and their purely logical nature makes diplomatic relations difficult to navigate.
- Verdant Accord: A sentient botanical network with abundant harvests. Highly diplomatic and capable of immense food production, they struggle with the cold mechanics of research, industry, and the harsh realities of space warfare.

## Game Guide

Full game guide available at: https://4xodus.com/guide

## Factions & Lore

- [Terran Federation](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-terran): Adaptable diplomats from a once-divided Earth.
- [T'klack Hive](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-zephyr): An advanced insectoid species driven by their Queen.
- [Krai Dominion](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-krai): A fierce warrior culture built on martial honor.
- [Nexari Ascendancy](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-nexari): Young, aquatic psionics reaching out to the cosmos.
- [Voss Trade League](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-voss): Master merchants whose wealth fuels their empire.
- [Drift Nomads](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-drift): Resourceful survivors born in failing orbital habitats.
- [Auric Syndicate](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-auric): Cybernetic industrialists transcending their biology.
- [Shade Enclave](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-shade): Lethal shadow operatives hidden in the dark.
- [Mech Assembly](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-mech): Synthetic intelligence awakening to a wider galaxy.
- [Verdant Accord](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-verdant): A sentient botanical network of immense patience.
- [Custom Factions](https://4xodus.com/guide/custom-factions): Create and play as your own unique civilization.

## Getting Started

- [Game Overview](https://4xodus.com/guide/basics): The basics of leading your faction to galactic dominance.
- [Galaxy Navigation](https://4xodus.com/guide/galaxy-navigation): How to navigate the galaxy map and select systems.
- [Surveying & Exploration](https://4xodus.com/guide/survey-exploration): Discovering anomalies and resources through system surveys.
- [Sensor Range & Fog of War](https://4xodus.com/guide/sensor-range): How far your empire can see into the darkness of space.
- [Difficulty Settings](https://4xodus.com/guide/difficulty-settings): Choose how challenging the AI factions will be.

## Colonies

- [Colony Management](https://4xodus.com/guide/colony-management): Managing population, buildings, and production on your colonies.
- [Migration](https://4xodus.com/guide/migration): How settlers automatically expand to new worlds within a system.
- [Colonization](https://4xodus.com/guide/colonization): Founding new colonies on distant worlds using colony ships.
- [Multi-Species Populations](https://4xodus.com/guide/multi-species-population): How different species coexist on conquered planets and affect colony output.
- [Planet Types & Habitability](https://4xodus.com/guide/planet-types): Understanding the spectrum of worlds in the galaxy.

## Fleets & Ships

- [Building Ships](https://4xodus.com/guide/building-ships): Constructing warships, colony ships, and support vessels.
- [Fleet Management](https://4xodus.com/guide/fleet-management): Moving, splitting, and managing your fleets across the galaxy.
- [Threat Avoidance](https://4xodus.com/guide/threat-avoidance): How unarmed ships automatically avoid hostile forces.

## Combat

- [Space Combat](https://4xodus.com/guide/space-combat): How battles work when fleets clash in the void.
- [Planetary Invasion](https://4xodus.com/guide/ground-combat): Conquering enemy and raider-held colonies through ground assault.
- [System Defense](https://4xodus.com/guide/system-defense): Every colony has baseline defense platforms that scale with your tech level.

## Research

- [Research & Technology](https://4xodus.com/guide/tech-research): Advancing your empire through scientific discovery.

## Diplomacy

- [Diplomacy Overview](https://4xodus.com/guide/diplomacy-basics): How diplomatic relationships, treaties, and faction politics shape the galaxy.
- [Treaties & Agreements](https://4xodus.com/guide/diplomacy-treaties): The chain of diplomatic agreements from peace to full economic partnership.
- [Relationship Dynamics](https://4xodus.com/guide/diplomacy-relations): The behind-the-scenes forces that drive relationships up or down each turn.
- [Diplomatic Audience](https://4xodus.com/guide/diplomacy-audience): How to interact personally with faction leaders through the audience screen.
- [Warfare & AI Strategy](https://4xodus.com/guide/warfare-strategy): How factions decide to declare war, fight, and sue for peace.
- [First Contact](https://4xodus.com/guide/first-contact): What happens when you discover a new faction.
- [Galactic Council](https://4xodus.com/guide/galactic-council): The governing body of galactic politics.

## Economy

- [Resources & Economy](https://4xodus.com/guide/economy-resources): Understanding credits, food, production, and research output.
- [Resources & Faction Bonuses](https://4xodus.com/guide/faction-resources): How different factions utilize and produce resources across their empires.

## Space Hazards

- [Space Hazards](https://4xodus.com/guide/space-hazards): Hostile creatures and pirates lurk in uncharted star systems.
- [Roving Threats](https://4xodus.com/guide/roving-threats): Raider factions establish dens in deep space and send escalating raids against your colonies.
- [The Voidstalkers](https://4xodus.com/guide/raider-voidstalkers): Disciplined deserters who strike with military precision.
- [The Scrapborn](https://4xodus.com/guide/raider-scrapborn): Refugee salvagers who overwhelm through desperate numbers.
- [Crimson Syndicate](https://4xodus.com/guide/raider-crimson-syndicate): An interstellar crime cartel that treats raiding as business.
- [The Broodswarm](https://4xodus.com/guide/raider-broodswarm): A biological hive-mind driven to consume and multiply.
- [The Iron Reavers](https://4xodus.com/guide/raider-iron-reavers): A machine cult that worships entropy and strips worlds bare.
- [The Phantom Fleet](https://4xodus.com/guide/raider-phantom-fleet): Uploaded consciousness inhabiting ghost ships that strike without warning.

## Crises

- [Crises](https://4xodus.com/guide/crises): Random events that threaten your colonies and demand quick decisions.

## Community

- [Leaderboards & Stats](https://4xodus.com/guide/leaderboards-and-stats): Track your performance and see how you stack up against other commanders.
- [Sending Feedback](https://4xodus.com/guide/feedback): How to share your thoughts, report bugs, and suggest features.

## Victory Conditions

- [Victory Conditions](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-overview): The five paths to galactic supremacy.
- [Galactic Conquest](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-conquest): Win through military dominance of the galaxy.
- [Galactic Sovereign](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-diplomatic): Unite the galaxy through the Galactic Council.
- [Transcendence](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-scientific): Achieve scientific transcendence through pinnacle technology.
- [Galactic Hegemon](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-economic): Dominate through trade and accumulated wealth.
- [Galactic Legacy](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-score): Build the greatest civilization by the end of the age.
- [Victory Screen & History](https://4xodus.com/guide/victory-screen): What happens when you win the game.

## Pages

- [Home](https://4xodus.com/)
- [Features](https://4xodus.com/features)
- [Factions](https://4xodus.com/factions)
- [Tech Trees](https://4xodus.com/tech-trees)
- [Game Guide](https://4xodus.com/guide)
- [About](https://4xodus.com/about)
- [Play Now](https://4xodus.com/play)