Galactic Civilizations IV

Con sommo rammarico mi trovo a dare una valutazione negativa. Ho giocato a una versione precedente di questa serie, trovandola molto coinvolgente e divertente, nonostante a suo tempo il gioco non fosse stato tradotto in italiano. Nonostante quì lo sia, e siano state fatte molte modifiche grafiche, mi ritrovo con un gioco che a mio avviso è solo l'ombra di quello che era, non diverte, e dopo poco tempo annoia. Ci sono poi tutta una serie di "scelte" poco sagge fatte dai programmatori, che minano e rendono frustrante giocare. Un esempio banale, la scelta di mettere in sottofondo della mappa di gioco, un'immagine dello spazio con stelle, soli, pianeti e comete in transito, che si appare bello, se non fosse che ci impedisce di vedere quello che davvero ci interessa con chiarezza, come mondi, asteroidi, anomalie ecc... Sono state fatte tutta una serie di scelte poco lungimiranti che rendono questo 4° capitolo frustrante da giocare. Peccato mi aspettavo davvero molto.

Played one full run of this game and needed 30h on a large map. Early game exploration feels nice but after that planet management is tedious and victory conditions take too damn long to achieve. If I ever play another run, it is going to be on a much smaller map with less civillizations.

Fantastisches Spiel! Ich habe mehrere Jahre gewartet, weil miese Reviews und der Vorgänger hatte einige sehr nervige Mechaniken. Und der vierte Teil nun (November 2025)? Ü-B-E-R-R-A-G-E-N-D GUT! Warum? Alles, was bei Teil 2 und 3 gut war, haben sie nun in vier übernommen und den Schrott weggelassen. Es ist sehr komplex und "tief", wenn man in die Details geht, aber man kann sehr viel automatisieren und sich auf die Teile konzentrieren, die einem Spaß machen. Die Grafik ist toll und die Fraktionen spielen sich sehr unterschiedlich. Im Vergleich zum offensichtlichen Konkurrenten Stellaris hat das Spiel auch ein funktionierendes Endgame und laggt sich (bei mir) nicht zu Tode. Zudem ist es nach meinem Geschmack deutlich besser designed. Ergebnis und Siegerehrung: Wer 4X in Space liebt, sollte hier ganz dringend einmal einen Blick riskieren.

Hell yes

Yeah they pretty much sold you the same game with a slightly cleaner UI but probably worse to be honest. I mean there's new civs I guess but things like the colony system for example... you can't manage tiles for planets under level 10 not your core systems. Some people might like it because it's simplier but for me that's one element of strategy that gets taken away for less improved planets and you couldn't see a map of the surface of those worlds. The sector system is kind of dumb. There's so much stuff they could have done. Maybe have a more advanced the terraforming system and mechanics. Imagine if you could turn barren planets into fully habitable worlds and maybe enemy civs could damage your worlds climates and stuff. Other space games have that kind of stuff. There's a more advanced leader system I guess I can give credit for that but yeah umm... this needs something more to be honest. Most of the mechanics been the same. It's still fun but it feels just the same as Gal Civ 3.

Overall it's an awesome game! Beautiful graphics (seriously, zoom in on a space battle), fantastic races and organizations, multiple ways to progress depending on your gameplay style & decisions. Love it. My big problem is that multiplayer is totally busted 😭 I play multiplayer & team games almost exclusively, so that's a huge problem for me. You can set it up as a multiplayer/team game but if it crashes or you save & come back, teams is turned off and you can't regroup. That alone kills the game for me- if they fix that feature I'll play this game a LOT more!

$75 for Expansion Pass 2 is beyond absurd. The game is nothing but a cash-grab from developers more interested in squeezing their remaining players dry than delivering anything of real value. Another textbook “churn and burn” disaster: shovel out overpriced, half-baked content, watch it underperform, then keep milking it anyway until the community is exhausted and the game collapses under its own greed. No vision, no respect for players - just monetization first, quality dead last. EDIT: To the dev who responded, it's been over a month and store page still does not reflect the change you mention.