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Games Like Rivers of Chaos

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Space, 4X, Grand Strategy.

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Conquer the galaxy in this cinematic, battle-simulator. Each playthrough offering a completely unique galaxy, over 100 total specialized ships to command, and distinct commanders to lead your people. Pick your favorite faction and lead your forces into a dynamically generated battlefield.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2024-05-10
Developer: Bugarug Games
Publisher: Burgarug Games
Genres: Action, Casual, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2021
    Dev: Fair Games
    Windows

    Tachyon Wars is a sci-fi real-time space strategy game. It introduces seriously deep gameplay with an emphasis on fleet control. Open space to explore, large-scale battles, crafty AI. All of it is well seasoned with novel real-time game mechanics.

    Why similar: 4X 30.4%, Grand Strategy 23.5%, Space 15.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%

  2. #2 Galactic Inheritors
    96% matchMixed43% of 88 reviews2015
    Dev: Crispon GamesPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Colonise solar systems and watch them grow. Explore the galaxy to find its strategic choke points. Build up your empire and your fleet and then use the power of the media to prepare your people for the inevitable war. At the same time watch your opponents, keep on an eye on their own media and watch for threats and opportunities.

    Why similar: 4X 38.7%, Space 24%, Grand Strategy 20.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.7%

  3. #3 Spaceman's Luck
    96% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Gideon Kennedy
    Windows

    A space 4X game. Colonize planets and annihilate enemy races in an intergalactic war for living space. Designed to be fun, fast, and easy to play.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1%, 4X 24.9%, Space 22.2%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Strategy 7.3%

  4. #4 Solar Wave
    95% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 reviews2026
    Dev: SavGus Studio
    Windows

    A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.

    Why similar: 4X 27.1%, Grand Strategy 25.5%, Space 14.3%, Wargame 12.6%, Sci-fi 7.2%

  5. #5 Distant Worlds 2
    94% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,552 reviews2022
    Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

    Why similar: 4X 35.7%, Grand Strategy 28.6%, Space 14.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%

  6. #6 Sovereign Stars
    94% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
    Dev: KYDEN
    Windows

    Build your galactic empire, conquer planets and emerge as the last player standing in this real-time strategy game.

    Why similar: 4X 28.3%, Grand Strategy 25.2%, Wargame 14.3%, Space 7.5%, Management 5.6%

  7. #7 Old Stars
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: adamjr
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.

    Why similar: 4X 32.5%, Grand Strategy 28%, Space 13.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Wargame 6.7%

  8. #8 Hollow Stars
    92% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: AppGX
    Windows

    A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op

    Why similar: 4X 32.3%, Grand Strategy 27.6%, Space 10%, Strategy 8.6%, Management 6.1%

  9. #9 Fire and Dark Stars
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: 没工作工作室
    Windows

    "Fire and Dark Stars" is a real-time 4X strategy game. You can grow your base, build your fleet, search for enemies, and destroy them. You need to carefully manage your resources, set up and protect your supply lines, so that your fleet does not run out of ammo and fuel.

    Why similar: 4X 31%, Grand Strategy 25%, Space 13.9%, Wargame 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%

  10. #10 Stellar Monarch 2
    91% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2022
    Dev: Silver Lemur Games
    Windows

    Stellar Monarch 2 is a feudal space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. Great noble houses, usurpers to the throne, rebels, assassins, court intrigues, disloyal admirals, incompetent governors and ever-present alien threat.

    Why similar: 4X 39.4%, Grand Strategy 32.3%, Space 12.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.7%

  11. #11 Imperium of the Stars
    90% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Hyrcronix
    Windows

    A real-time 4X where each faction plays like a different game. Rule a Gothic empire that runs on faith, unmake the galaxy world by world, or forge a warhost from salvage. Up to 10,000 procedurally generated star systems. No diplomacy. Only war.

    Why similar: 4X 37.2%, Grand Strategy 30.3%, Space 14.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Sci-fi 6.3%

  12. #12 Cosmist
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Gulbrandr Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Expand your empire one sector at a time in a fast-paced turn-based 4X strategy game. Capture planets, harvest resources, command powerful fleets, and adapt your strategy with unique Emperors and unpredictable divine interventions. Play solo, or challenge rivals in tactical PvP.

    Why similar: 4X 36.7%, Grand Strategy 29.7%, Space 13.8%, Strategy 6.3%, Sci-fi 6.2%

  13. #13 Distant Worlds: Universe
    89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,855 reviews2014
    Dev: Code ForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

    Why similar: 4X 42.5%, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Space 19%, Strategy 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%

  14. #14 Elemental Empire
    88% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
    Dev: WizardingGames
    Windows · Mac

    An economic 4x strategy in a space filled with magic and procedurally generated planets. Build your own empire and become the sole ruler of a new world.

    Why similar: 4X 35.6%, Grand Strategy 34.1%, Space 14.2%, PvE 9.6%, Strategy 6%

  15. #15 Red Pearl Pirates
    87% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Eoin Tolster
    Windows · Linux

    Command vast fleets in epic space battles, master a turn-based galactic campaign, and unite a pirate rebellion to find the legendary Red Pearl and stand against the tyrannical Z-Army. They can't take the stars from us!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.3%, 4X 25.1%, Wargame 11.7%, Space 10.7%, Military 6.5%

  16. #16 Near Sol
    86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
    Dev: LTide
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)

    Why similar: 4X 32.3%, Grand Strategy 28.5%, Space 13.2%, Management 8.3%, Sci-fi 6%

  17. #17 Shattered Spheres
    85% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: Data Vikings
    Windows

    Shattered Spheres is a turn-based 2D space 4X strategy game inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore a living galaxy, build your empire, and crush your rivals through military conquest or diplomatic cunning — without the micromanagement bloat of modern 4X games.

    Why similar: 4X 35.5%, Grand Strategy 24.9%, Space 15.4%, Management 6.9%, Sci-fi 5.2%

  18. #18 Stellaris
    86% matchVery Positive86% of 196,831 reviews2016
    Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 144.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

    Why similar: 4X 29.1%, Grand Strategy 29%, Space 18.8%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Strategy 5.6%

  19. #19 Solar Nations 2
    84% matchVery Positive85% of 595 reviews2025
    Dev: Flomgus Games
    Windows

    In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9%, 4X 23.8%, Space 13.1%, Wargame 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.2%

  20. #20 Jellystar Empires: When Space Bunnies Attack!!
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rat Wrath Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An area-control real-time strategy game, filled with auto-battling bunnies bent on destroying the human race! Explore space and uncover hand-painted planets. Research unique upgrades! Kill your friends! -er use diplomacy in multiplayer!

    Why similar: 4X 23.9%, Grand Strategy 21.3%, Auto Battler 14.2%, Wargame 12.4%, Space 11.5%

  21. #21 Stellar Reach
    82% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2025
    Dev: Stelleas
    Windows

    Stellar Reach is a 4X hard sci-fi strategy game where you control a faction vying for dominance across a hostile galactic frontier. Guide your empire through conquest, prosperity, or industrial power as you advance through six distinct tech trees and forge your path to victory.

    Why similar: 4X 33.9%, Grand Strategy 21.4%, Space 14.7%, Sci-fi 9%, Strategy 6.4%

  22. #22 Star Ruler
    83% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2010
    Dev: Blind Mind Studios
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

    Why similar: 4X 41.4%, Space 21.5%, Grand Strategy 18.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%

  23. #23 Commanders Fury
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: RoboFox Games LLC
    Windows

    Take command of the war machine of an empire in this 4x RTS hybrid. Fight battles with your flagship fleet in fully 3D real-time space combat. Recruit, train and dispatch commanders. Give them orders, directives and equip their fleets. Manage your empire’s supply logistics and fleet operations.

    Why similar: 4X 30.7%, Grand Strategy 19.9%, Space 16.1%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Management 7.3%

  24. #24 Horizon
    82% matchMixed59% of 477 reviews2014
    Dev: L3O Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.

    Why similar: 4X 28.9%, Grand Strategy 28.4%, Space 14.6%, Wargame 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.7%

  25. #25 CIVIREVIVAL
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 筋斗云
    Windows

    In this 4X + RPG strategy game, lead humanity’s last ark and rebuild a new home among the mysterious ruins of the stars. Starting from nothing, you will develop technology, build powerful fleets, resist external threats, and shape the rebirth of human civilization.

    Why similar: 4X 23.4%, Wargame 22%, Grand Strategy 19.8%, Space 17.1%, Strategy 6.4%

  26. #26 Antropico: Colonies
    80% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Scassius Systems
    Windows · Linux

    A large-scale space strategy game focused on building and maintaining power within a simulated galaxy. Build, develop, and survive in a galaxy shaped by history and consequences.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9%, 4X 31.1%, Space 10.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Sci-fi 6.6%

  27. #27 New Stars
    78% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
    Dev: adamjr
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.

    Why similar: 4X 28.2%, Grand Strategy 25.3%, Space 13.2%, Wargame 11.4%, Sci-fi 6.5%

  28. #28 Pixel Imperium
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tuki Byte
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Play a grand strategy game in any world you want, on land or in space. Import real maps, play a procedurely generated world, or hand-draw your own fictional universe. Then lead your faction to domination by managing its economy, diplomacy, and military.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.5%, 4X 32%, Wargame 13.1%, Space 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%

  29. #29 Nexus Legacy
    77% matchMixed68% of 326 reviews2026
    Dev: Nexus Legacy Team
    Windows

    Rebuild civilization from a single planet in Nexus Legacy, a persistent sci-fi 4X MMO. Colonize worlds, manage resources, research technologies, command fleets, forge alliances, and fight for control of a living galaxy.

    Why similar: 4X 25.6%, Grand Strategy 23.1%, Wargame 13.7%, Space 12.4%, Management 7.5%

  30. #30 Heathen Engineering's Terran
    79% matchMostly Negative33% of 15 reviews2019
    Dev: Heathen Engineering
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Galactic Strategy | Tactics | Action! Found an empire and expand across the stars, command massive fleets in interstellar conflicts and pilot powerful warships as you battle for victory in Heathen Engineering’s Terran.

    Why similar: 4X 32.1%, Grand Strategy 25%, Space 18.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Sci-fi 8.8%

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    79% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2020
    Dev: Malfador MachinationsPub: Strategy First
    Windows

    Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.

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  32. #32 Beyond
    77% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
    Dev: Quixotic Universe
    Windows

    Beyond is a sci-fi turn-based strategy game set in a generated solar system that orbits a distant star every round. Play as one of five alien species as you race to collect resources, build your military, develop new tech, expand the area you control, and drive opposing factions from the system.

    Why similar: 4X 28.4%, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Space 12.8%, Wargame 12.3%, Sci-fi 7.9%

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    76% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Petroff Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Imperium is a single-player 4X space strategy game. Colonize alien worlds, design your own spaceships, research exotic technologies, and outmaneuver rival empires through diplomacy or open war. Build a galactic empire and rule it your way.

    Why similar: 4X 28.8%, Grand Strategy 25.9%, Wargame 14.7%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 6.2%

  34. #34 ASTRA LIMES: Belt Operations
    76% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: CorvusPub: Minus1K
    Windows

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  35. #35 Starithm
    75% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Why similar: 4X 33.9%, Grand Strategy 29.8%, Wargame 16.3%, Strategy 6.9%, Sci-fi 5.8%

  36. #36 Search for Sol
    74% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Cryptomnesic
    Windows · Mac

    The children of long-extinct humanity desperately search for the legendary artifact system of Sol. Search for Sol is a sci-fi 4X in the tradition of Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion, and Star Traders. Control Sol for 50 years to ascend to flesh once again.

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  37. #37 Shadow Empire
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,947 reviews2020
    Dev: VR DesignsPub: Matrix Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.

    Why similar: 4X 25.2%, Grand Strategy 21.8%, Wargame 14%, Space 11.3%, Management 6.8%

  38. #38 Inflection Point
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Martin Giannakopoulos
    Windows

    A multiplayer 4X strategy game of globe-spanning 19th-century battle. Break through enemy lines, encircle their armies, and cut off their supply. Colonize resource-rich islands and blockade those of your opponents. Games are quick and packed with dramatic, high-stakes combat.

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  39. #39 Gate Builders
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pyralis Studio
    Windows · Linux

    Gate Builders is a sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game. Build space stations, manage work force, exploit, trade and transform resources. Face space pirates and enemy factions. Build, Expand, Thrive!

    Why similar: 4X 31.6%, Grand Strategy 28.5%, Space 14.2%, Management 10.2%, Sci-fi 9%

  40. #40 StarDrive 2
    75% matchMixed55% of 2,102 reviews2015
    Dev: Zero Sum GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.

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  41. #41 Conqueror's Stage
    71% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
    Dev: LeftLane InteractivePub: Lunexa Solutions
    Windows

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    Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.1%, 4X 32.4%, Wargame 16.1%, Military 5%, Management 4.9%

  42. #42 Mercatoria
    71% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: Dinkel Games
    Windows

    Turn-based grand strategy in the Age of Discovery. Develop a transport network, industrialise your economy, colonise the New World, and compete with five rival powers. Inspired by Imperialism 2. Early Access — built by one developer in his spare time.

    Why similar: 4X 32.6%, Grand Strategy 28.6%, Wargame 14.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Management 6.6%

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    73% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,174 reviews2016
    Dev: NGD StudiosPub: Wargaming Labs
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 101.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

    Why similar: 4X 53%, Space 18%, Strategy 13.2%, Grand Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 6.7%

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    72% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: 4X 38.8%, Grand Strategy 28.9%, Wargame 14.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Tactical 3%

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    72% matchMostly Positive75% of 506 reviews2014
    Dev: Arcen Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

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    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: LOONW
    Windows

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  47. #47 Trumpets of War
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Xblur
    Windows

    Trumpets of War is a grand-scale historical strategy game where armies clash and empires rise. Command vast forces across dynamic battlefields, orchestrate campaigns with precision, and experience the drama of war through an innovative system that blends tactical combat with strategic mastery.

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    69% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: jejoxdev
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    68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
    Dev: Rotten Sewer Productions
    Windows

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    70% matchMixed59% of 966 reviews2022
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    69% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    67% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
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    69% matchNo user reviews2025
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    71% matchMostly Negative32% of 165 reviews2012
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    68% matchNo user reviews2026
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    67% matchNo user reviews
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  59. #59 Final Vanguard
    67% matchNo user reviews
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  60. #60 Galactum Meridian
    66% matchNo user reviews2026
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