Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition


















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Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
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Lords of the Black Sun
Indie
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.

Galactic Dominion
Indie
Galactic Dominion is a fast paced 4x space strategy game. Explore the stars, perform research, manage your colonies, build a fleet, defend your systems, and conquer the galaxy. Play through an epic story driven campaign or alternatively customize your games for countless re-playability!

Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
2D
Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.

Galactic Civilizations III
Multiplayer
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.

Solar Nations
Indie
Command grand fleets and wage strategic wars on an interstellar scale in this new take on galactic Grand Strategy. Transform nature to suit the needs of Empire and surge forward! Will you guide aspiring interstellar nations to glory, or rekindle the flames of a long lost Empire?

Space Empires II
Retro
Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.

Galactic Ruler Enlightenment
Atmospheric
Play campaign stories within the Galactic Ruler universe. Invade the galaxy to eliminate those who stand in your way or rally alien races to defend against the invaders. Fight battles at both planet and space across a procedurally generated galaxy. Use new unit control systems to manage your forces.

Star Traders: 4X Empires
Indie
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Eclipse - 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy
Casual
The galaxy, once peaceful after the Terran-Hegemony War, now faces rising tensions. The Galactic Council's efforts to maintain peace are failing as alliances shatter and secret treaties form. A confrontation looms—who will emerge victorious and rule the galaxy? Lead your people to victory!

Outscape
Indie
Outscape is everything you love about traditional strategy games, but places your empire within a vast online galaxy alongside other real players. Outscape rewards skillful long-term strategic gameplay with a brilliantly refreshing new take on the 4X genre.

Lord of Rigel
Singleplayer
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, unite with other species or forge your own path alone. Navigate galactic council politics and defeat grand menaces while utilizing espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?

Universal Conquest
2D
4X/Grand Strategy/RTS Hybrid Space Simulation based on principles - and developed in consultancy with - alien contactees.

Distant Worlds: Universe
Indie
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

New Stars
Singleplayer
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.

Interstellar Space: Genesis
Indie
Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Gemini Wars
Singleplayer
Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.

Star Ruler
Indie
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Armada 2526
Strategy
Guide one of 12 races on their first interstellar journey from a single planet, until it becomes a mighty pan-galactic empire.

Stars in Shadow
Indie
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
Indie
Endless Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the Endless universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.