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Space Empires: Close Encounters

1–4 players · ~180 min to play · ages 12+ · 2012

kind · Wargame complexity · Heavy

language · Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (4 votes)

BGG 8.4/10 (709 ratings) · weight 3.5/5 View on BGG ↗

Questions here read: Space Empires 4Xbg-84419-en-1e · Space Empires: Close Encountersbg-113942-en-1e This box expands Space Empires 4X, so a question here is asked on the base game and reads both books.

Asked on Space Empires 4X, with this expansion included.

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🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
the word this page prints
Heavy
community weight
3.48 of 5
votes behind it
60 weight votes
community rating
8.37 of 10
ratings behind it
709 ratings
players
1–4
recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
1–4
language dependence — the level BGG's poll names, ties read upward
3 of 5 — Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
votes in that poll
4 votes
minimum age — the figure BGG reports, which a printed box can disagree with
12+
play time — the min and max BGG reports
180 min
play time — the headline figure BGG reports
180 min
year published
2012
captured
Aug 24, 2026
source
BoardGameGeek XML API
🔧 Kinds — what each one rests on, and when it was approved
Wargame · the kind of evening
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Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.

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