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Galactic Civilizations III

77% positive of 8,339 Steam reviews

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Released
2015
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG, Epic, Xbox / PC Game Pass

Made by Stardock Entertainment.

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • 4X
  • Hex Grid
  • Grand Strategy
  • Aliens
  • Turn-Based
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Lore-Rich
  • Sandbox
  • Space
  • Procedural Generation
  • PvP
  • War

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What players say

  • Recommended
    It's Galactic Civ 2 with more stuff and options. Honestly havent dived in a enough to definitly say, but I like it so far.

    6 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Overall I'm a bit mixed about this game. The adjacency bonus system is nice, placing buildings of the same type next to each other gives a boost to them. However since the planets are randomly generated it's possible to get a planet where the tiles are placed in a manner that taking advantage of this bonus is only possible after several levels of terraforming. Taking turns becomes painfully slow in the late game…

    73 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    The game snowballs. One civ gets ahead and conquers everything. I make that civ me by finding the best path to plantary invasion. I make my citizens generals and send out invasion fleets with a few escorts. The ai doesn't build a navy at all so I clear out the defense of the ai's capital and surrounding planets and conquer with no opposition to my invasion fleets. Now I am ahead and conquering everything. The…

    43 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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