Space Empires V (SEV) is a 4X turn based strategy game that was released in 2006.

The game retains many races and technologies from its predecessor, Space Empires IV (SEIV).

It is the first Space Empires game to use three-dimensional graphics, and as such, the user interface has been heavily redesigned.

The empire-building aspects of the game borrows as much from the third instalment as it does from the fourth, with research and intelligence being assigned as a percentage of available points as opposed to the queue system used for construction.

Custom race creation is basically the same as in the previous games, with two notable changes - you must now select a government type in addition to a social paradigm, and the game master may grant players a set number of research points to improve starting technology.