Digital Entertainment, a small indie studio from Winter Park, Florida, has revealed their ambitious new 4X game, Apollo4X.

Featured above, you can get a brief overview of how to start up a game in the massive space-strategy world. Instead of taking a page out of the typical formula seen in the majority of 4X games, i.e. exploring, expanding, and conquering, or focusing on securing production, research, and food, you focus on trade management.

Yes, this is mostly a trade management simulator of sorts, baked into a 4X game, but also not without its quirks as far as watching your growth and your own popularity, internally. If you continue to perform in a lackluster manner, you might be ousted from your seat of power.

“The 4X genre has had tremendous growth”, said Joseph Young, the game’s designer and Creative Director. “Our game creates a new formula for 4X gameplay. We have listened to what the gamer community desires, and we will give them what they want with refreshing approach to the genre.”

We’ll be delving a bit deeper into Apollo4X in a hands on preview, which Digital Entertainment has provided to Niche Gamer.