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Planet X3 is a real time strategy game by David Murray, better known as The 8-Bit Guy. Planet X3 was developed for a wide range of MS-DOS computers and as such, can support a variety of graphics modes. The core gameplay revolves around the player developing their base using resources gathered by specialized units and defending their property from incoming waves of hostile aliens, similar to 4X games. After release, fans of the game ported it to several other graphics modes like support for the Hercules Graphics Card.

Planet X3 is the third installment of the Planet X series, started by Murray in 2009 when he developed Planet X1 for the Commodore VIC-20 as a project. Planet X3 is the first game in the series to use x86 assembly language instead of 6502 assembly language like the previous two games (Planet X1 and Planet X2). The game itself had two versions for different machines; a 360 Kb version that came on a 5 1⁄4 floppy diskette which only supported CGA and Tandy (and later on Hercules), and a 720 Kb version that came on a 3 ½ floppy diskette which supported EGA and VGA.

Like Planet X2, Planet X3 released with both digital and physical copies. The digital release included disk images for both versions of the game (360 Kb and 720 Kb) while the physical releases had several versions from just a single disk with a manual to an autographed box with a full color manual, an audio cassette tape with the soundtrack on it and both versions of the game on 2 floppy disks.