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Space Kings: multiplayer space strategy on Android
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- Colony planets across several galaxies, built into one empire
- Alliances of hundreds of players, each with its own bank and forum
- Diplomacy: alliances with friendly groups, or war on rivals
- 15 warship types and 9 planetary defence types
- An upgradable flagship that can be built for fleet, colony or defence
- Credits from expeditions, traded with players on an auction
What kind of game Space Kings is
If you want a space strategy game where the opponents are other people, Space Kings is built for that. The developer describes it as a multiplayer game for phones and tablets, with an interface it says is optimised for both. It is listed on Google Play as a Game with a USK All ages rating, 100,000+ installs and an average of 3.56 stars from 2,661 ratings.
The developer says the game has no hard-selling purchases, no ads and no repetitive quest chains. Those claims come from the developer's own listing, and nothing here tests them. What the listing does describe is a game in which you build a empire, form alliances, and fight other players over planets and galaxies.
Most of the game's content sits in three areas: the empire you build, the alliance you join, and the battles you fight against rival players. The sections below follow those three areas, then the trade and chat that run alongside them.
Building an empire of colony planets
You start by creating your own empire, which the listing says can grow to dozens of colony planets spread across multiple galaxies. Each colony is where you produce resources, put up defences and station your fleet. The listing presents the empire as the base for everything else in the game.
Planets are defended by 9 types of planetary defence structures. Attackers use 15 types of warships, and the listing mentions interplanetary missiles as a separate way to strike at a target. Both sides of a conflict therefore have a range of options to choose between.
Your flagship sits alongside these units. Its skills can be raised to boost fleet strength, colony output or defence, and the listing says a flagship built for defence can hold off a large attack alone. You choose which of these to focus on, so the flagship is shaped by how you play.
Alliances, diplomacy and war between players
Alliances bring together groups of hundreds of players who share interests. Each alliance has its own structure, rules and bonuses, along with a shared bank, a private chat and a forum. A new player joining one gets access to those shared resources along with the group's members.
Diplomacy sits on top of the alliances. You can form agreements with friendly alliances, or declare war on the ones you oppose. The developer stresses that choosing allies and enemies carefully matters, which suggests the diplomatic side is meant to shape long-term play rather than a single session.
Battles are team-based PvP. The listing describes a sequence of scouting an enemy, planning a strategy, picking a time to attack, asking allies for help, and merging fleets before a strike. It also warns that a stronger opponent can beat a well-planned attack, so the outcome is not fixed in advance.
Expeditions, credits and the player auction
Expeditions are the listing's main way of finding resources. Credits, the game currency, are found on expeditions, and the listing says the finds are useful as well as interesting. Credits are the currency used in the rest of the economy.
Players trade with each other on an auction. You can sell items and buy the flagship modules and artefacts that other players have for sale, or pay other players for services they offer. Credits are the medium for all of this, so expeditions feed the trading side of the game.
Finally, the listing describes a universe-wide chat that all players share, alongside the private chat each alliance keeps. These give players a way to coordinate across alliances as well as within them.
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About this APK
The build we hold is Space Kings Стратегия и космос 2.0.15 (APK) for Android 7.1 and up.
- Version
- 2.0.15
- 20015
- Requires Android
- 7.1+
- Size
- 8 MB
- Target Android
- 16
- Package ID
- ru.spacekings.spacekings
- Format
- APK
- Malware scan
- Clean on 67 engines
- Permissions
- 11 declared
- Signed by
- CN=Dmitry Bruhov, O=DimaSoft
- Certificate SHA-256
- c4751981b197ec87bd6ddf9597e81ff22ed5635a13ddbd5ba2701ef13125ba72
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