About Nexus 5X

Nexus 5X is a multiplayer turn-based 4X strategy game built to deliver the thrill of a deep board game session in a single evening, where One More Turn quickly becomes One More Game. A full clash for galactic dominance plays out from start to finish in about an hour, letting you fit several sessions into one sitting rather than committing to a marathon campaign.

Social strategy sits at its core. You choose from unique factions and leaders and play with up to seven friends in simultaneous turn-based multiplayer, where all turns resolve at once, or test yourself against strangers online through skill-based matchmaking. That structure invites unlikely alliances, bitter betrayals, and quiet scheming from the shadows as everyone races toward victory.

Starting from the safety of your homeworld, you expand rapidly across the galaxy to explore and occupy new systems, with the ultimate goal of seizing the galactic Throneworld known as Nexus. Both military conflict and diplomatic maneuvering are open to you, alongside the power struggle in the Galactic Council, where rival empires exert influence to pass titles and resolutions that strengthen their faction or advance their aims. With distinct factions and leaders and roots in the Stellaris universe, this indie strategy, RPG, and simulation blend gives PC players a fast, competitive path to galactic power.