Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Get the complete Galactic Civilizations II saga including the acclaimed PC strategy game of the year Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the award winning expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords: Galactic Civilizations II is the sequel to 2003’s hit turn-based strategy game of the same name. The player takes on the role of the leader of a space-faring civilization and must guide its expansion in a hostile galaxy. Gamers must balance their economic, technological, diplomatic, cultural, and military power to forge alliances, fight wars, and ultimately dominate the galaxy. The game is single-player and allows the player to play randomly generated galactic maps or play through a multi-mission campaign that tells the story of an ancient enemy called the Dread Lords.
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar: The expansion pack for Stardock’s award-winning hit strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. This expansion pack not only adds the usual content that expansion packs tend to do such as new opponents, new units and a new campaign. It also greatly expands the game play of Galactic Civilizations II. New features include asteroid belts on the map that can be mined for resources, unique planets that require special technologies to colonize, spies to conduct sabotage and destabilization (or used to protect your worlds from the same), new types of diplomatic treaties, an enhanced artificial intelligence engine, and much more!
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor: The year is 2227 and the fire of war is consuming the galaxy thanks to the manipulations of the evil Dread Lords. But the remaining factions, led by the humans, have a plan to rid the galaxy of the Dread Lords once and for all.
Expand the Galactic Civilizations II universe with Terror Stars, unique technology trees per civilization, Map editors, Custom Scenario makers, campaign editors, new types of ships, new planetary improvements, and much more!
Key features:
- Beautiful 3D engine brings planets, stars, asteroids and ship battles to life.
- Create custom 3D ships piece-by-piece with your Shipyard.
- Play as any of a dozen unique civilizations or create your own.
- Multiple paths to victory: Military conquest, cultural domination, political alliance, technological supremacy or ascension.
- Addictive gameplay: Dynamic galaxies ranging from tiny to gigantic.
- Superior multi-threaded artificial intelligence enables computer players to provide a challenge without having to cheat.
- Put your scores online via the Metaverse and compete with players from around the world.
- Fully moddable design enables players to create unique opponents, graphics and scenarios.
- Advanced diplomacy enables players to trade, make treaties, alliances and more.
Game Discussion
Steam User 19
EDIT: Turned to YES,
The game is good and fun. It is a little rough on the edges but the soul is intact.
Unfortunately, the game crashes as soon as I attack a starbase. I googled and I saw many other people had it, with no solution.
EDIT: With some experimentation, I figured out that the problem was the explosion effect. Turning it off in the setting worked out the issue. No more shiny explosions but at least I can continue the game.
Steam User 10
Overall, I love this game, but I will give everyone a warning. Do not play with random events set to happen on maps beyond the large size. The reason that it will have the event that caps your movement to 5 Parsecs occur, with reloading from saves not stopping it from occurring. It have played over 20 times on maps that are huge and immense with the random events enabled and it will ALWAYS happen, within 50 turns of starting the game. On a map of that size, that particular event should be disabled, why the game developers never removed it from the pool of available events for the largest sized maps is ridiculous.
Steam User 5
Oh man, I sunk so many hours into this game back when everything was simple. Still, it is my favourite 4X space strategy.
Steam User 4
It may not be as modern as galciv 3 or 4, but it definitely has the one more turn factor. Its not overcomplicated like some other 4x games. Your choices can lead to events based on your good or evil choices. For its, time the AI was smart.
Steam User 2
This is a fine game but is very outdated from 2008. It is well superceded by GalCiv 3 much updated when it came out in 2015.
Steam User 2
This game way more fun than I thought it would be. I recommend it to any one that is into sci-fi and stradegy games - 4x
Steam User 2
This is a GREAT GAME, especially for people that have older machines or don't want to invest in a beefier PC to run games. This one for me was my intro into this franchise, and it has left an impression on me well over two decades later. I mostly play 3 now, but I have to appreciate this old classic, which is why I bought it for a second time on Steam.
Sidenotes:
After leaving reviews for 3 and 4. Figured it would be good to leave a review for this one.
Please disregard my 2 hours playtime, I played it back when Stardock had that old website which went defunct along with the other 3rd party distributor that I could no longer download from (Stardock: don't think some of us have forgotten that, glad to see you made it to Steam, probably the best move you made).