Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Sep 8 → 0.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Reviews
Themes across 813 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I've graduated from G.C. 1 to 2 and now 3. I still haven't checked out G.C. 4 although I've purchased it. I like G.C. 3 but will share some cons as well as pros. If you like strategy, turn-based games that you can work on gradually over days, then the Galactic Civilizations series could be your thing. You start as one of a number of races exploring the galaxy-you can choose from many races each with their own strengths and weaknesses, or create a customized race. You can also modify your starting race with points that can be distributed as you like among many possible attributes. From there it's the usual mixture of exploration, colonization, development, trade, espionage, military might, alliances, etc. The graphics of course are much improved over G.C.2 which was better than G.C.1. A couple of areas in which Sid Meyer's Civilization Series does better: I wish G.C. had something like the "advisor board" or sole advisor who might suggest to you the best next development to put on a colony, or what you might best focus on in the extensive research tree. I also wish I could find a manual. I played through the tutorial but there was a lot of information not covered there (and it took some hours to get through also). In short, it takes really playing through at least one game just to learn what's possible and perhaps some mistakes to avoid. I've found it fairly addicting and as someone who has played quite a bit in the Civilization series, it's fun to take this game style into space in a sci-fi sort of setting. This is also not one of those games which try to get you to endlessly buy in-game upgrades - there are a limited number of expansion sets and free player-created content though for more variety.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Russian*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 816 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
I like this game
An excellent 4X game with a wide scope. Fully supported by some wonderfully talented player ship designers.
Much fun, but many game-play/balance issues remain years later. Non-existent multiplayer. Rather play the decades old MOO2.
awesome worth the time and money!
Does not work with mods
It's not much of a strategy game since the only strategy available is "prepare for war". Want to build a peaceful empire? prepare for war. Want to build a warring empire? prepare for war.
什么都好，就是不支持中文，繁体简体都可以嘛，何必这样
Claro que o fato de ser um jogo bem mais novo ajuda, mas como nem sempre é o caso com jogos bem mais novos, é importante dizer: É uma versão melhorada do GalCiv II. Principalmente a UI melhorou muito, ficou bem mais intuitiva e acessível. É bem mais fácil ver tudo que está acontecendo e tomar decisões baseado nas informações que são apresentadas. A jogabilidade também teve muitas melhorias em relação ao II, mas como eu já joguei desde o começo com o Crusade instalado me ajudou a ter essa impressão, já que eu percebo que muitas das melhorias de qualidade de vida e novos elementos estratégicos foram pontos criticados pela comunidade no lançamento e resolvidas pelos desenvolvedores no DLC. Vou falar em mais detalhes dessas melhorias em uma resenha do Crusade, mas fica o aviso que talvez o jogo vanilla não seja uma evolução tão óbvia assim. O ponto baixo é, assim como no II, a campanha. História chata e pouco inspirada. Missões sem graça. É até difícil entender porque o lore que eles criam pras raças é muito interessante e bem pensado. O legal acaba sendo jogar partidas normais mesmo e inventar a história na sua cabeça. Então foi assim que os Terranos se vingaram dos Drengin por se aliarem aos Dread Lords. Ou esse foi o plano traçado pelos Iconianos para retomar Iconia dos Yor e controlar a ameaça cibernética que foi o maior pecado do seu povo. Não joguei as outras expansões, fora Crusade, mas só com ela já é um jogo que vale bastante a pena, pra quem curte 4X e esse tema espacial. Cuidado pra não jogar só mais um turno, pois de repente já pode ser 2h da manhã.
I have played all the Galactic civs and I prefer 2 over 3. I feel like when they moved to 3 they made some things better and others worse. With this one to me they made the tech tree awful compared to 2 along with planet management. In 2 both of these just seems so much more stream lined and with this one it just seems a bit more clunky. I do like how they made trading work in this game, with regards to the bar we get on knowing when a trade will be accepted or not.
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