Basic Controls and Navigation — Endless Space Guide

Learn the basics of Endless Space controls and navigation, including Galaxy View, System View, Planet View, and Empire Management. Start your galactic conquest!

Endless Space is a rich game with a number of game concepts that you get to know little by little. This page is a list of the basic concepts that will help you start quickly playing Endless Space.

Choose a Faction to rule the Galaxy. Each of those Factions have specific Abilities and Traits.

There are 7 Victory Types in the game. Your goal will be to reach any one of the following Victory Conditions before your opponents do:

• Expansion Victory: Control 75% or more of the Galaxy.
• Scientific Victory: Research the Pan-Galactic Society Technology.
• Economic Victory: Earn (gross) a certain amount of Dust.
• Diplomatic Victory: Manage to survive long enough while being at war the least amount of time.
• Supremacy Victory: Control all the original players’ Home Planets.
• Wonder Victory: Build 5 copies of the Improvement "Invulnerable Empire".
• Score Victory: Have the highest score when the turn limit is reached.

This is the main view in Endless Space, this is where you will be able to EXPLORE the entire galaxy for new Star Systems to colonize. Star Systems are clusters of Planets. A vital basis for any Empire, all activity in Endless Space occurs near a System; they provide Resources and Production, as well as acting as battlefields for fleet Combat. On the map, they are combined into single nodes, connected by Cosmic Strings and Wormholes. At the very beginning, you can only move your Ships on the Cosmic Strings, you will then be able to travel through Wormholes and from any node to any other node, by unlocking the specific Technologies. Your Ships will be able to perform different actions such "Move to a System", "Guard a System", "Attack an Enemy Fleet". Transport Ships can also "Colonize a Planet".

You access this view by clicking on a System when you're in the Galaxy View. This is the view in which you can see all the Planets included in a System. Each Planet produces 4 types of basic Resources: Food, Industry, Dust