Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Stardock Entertainment · 2011 · 4X, Grand Strategy, Turn-Based, Turn-Based Strategy, 3D
PC
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About Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
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Lead a space-faring civilization to galactic dominance through military might, diplomacy, culture, technology, or ascension in this epic turn-based strategy game. The complete saga includes the acclaimed base game plus two expansions that add espionage, unique planets, Terror Stars, civilization-specific tech trees, and deep customization tools for ships, scenarios, and campaigns.
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!
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.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
D-D-D-D-DECULTURE!2 found this helpful
TLDR: Get the SWvsST mod and follow the instructions below - this is the best 4X ever! ---------------- original review --------------- I've played Galactic Civilizations II (at least 100 hrs) and Galactic Civilizations III (20 hours), and I like GC2 the best, and that's because I feel like I've come up with a strategy that uses the technology tree a certain way. As an aside: I might have even played GalCiv 1 - I'm not sure though. I do remember being really disappointed when GC2 first came out that it was missing "death stars", so I think i got the impression that it should have those because I must have played GC1 first. Later GC2 came out with the "Ultimate Edition" and that did have death stars, and at that point I understood that StarDock loves to milk the player base with DLCs, which they continue to do to this day. Hey we all have to eat right? When I tried GC3, it didn't hook me because I could see the technology tree had been changed a LOT from what I was used to. I still tried to like it and play it, but it never hooked me and it felt like they had just made everything more even. I couldn't find a huge advantage in the tech tree and my playstyle anymore. Mind you…1 found this helpful
Excellent strategy game. Replay value is very high as there are tons of things you can tweak and alter to change up the difficulty or length of the game.
Best space 4x game ever I swear
Very detailed and immersive 4X space strategy game. Alot of fun, and alot of races.
This is half based trash tossed togeather with 2 different displace settings, that tosses a error on load, sure it works once you close the error, but im not looking to close the stupid error every time i load what is supose to be a game, not a dlc to a game.
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