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.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Sep 8 → 0.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; Xbox, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 813 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Не знаю, зачем в это играть, если есть Stellaris, он лучше, после него запускать эту поделку бессмысленно, все равно не удержит.
One of the best Space 4X games I've ever played. Reminds me a lot of one of my all-time favorite space 4X games, Master of Orion.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German, Russian*languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 816 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
I bought the game on sales with all DLC and was disappionted by the gameplay. It is not necessarily a bad game. Actually, I like to play older games and the grafics looked good to me. Also all aspects of a a 4X-Game, I usually enjoy to play, are in place. I actually was looking forward to play it. However, I didn't had any fun playing it. My main issue with the game is, that information on how things work are vague and burry. Usually, I love to dig into strategy games but I was disappionted how sparse and vague the tooltips are. On top, the tutorial felt like wasted time. Usually I don't need any tutorials but I play them anyway to get a better idea on what the developers considered to be important and hook me up to play the game. On this part, the tutorial failed spectaculary. It is just "do this" and "do that" or "abort the tutorial" within a limited sandbox environment. There was little to no information on why I want to do this or that. On top, the tutorial tried to deliver a story, I couldn't care less about. I like good stories but this story felt like told a hundert times before and being totally replacable. To be fair, many games have an issue with their story, but I didn't bought a strategy game for the story but for doing strategy decisions to create my own story. But here the game failed, at least for me, to deliver too. TL;DR: This game wasn't my cup of tea. If you are like me, loving to play strategy games by learning on available options, making meaningful decisions and dealing with the consequences, you maybe will be disappionted like me. If you don't care much on how the game provide information and want just play in sci-fi / MO2-like setting, you maybe want to give it a try.
Absolute garbage, boring, shallow, just annoying to play. Beware the promotional video, there is NOT an underlying story. There is NO ship customization. This is not endless space nor stellaris, it is everything that sucks about both without any of their redeeming qualities.
I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So I decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.
Has a launcher...
Lot's of dumb UI and lacking QOL to make it easier to manage, or just less frustrating in a lot of ways.
После того как вражеский 1 корабль напал на мой десантник с легионами, с которым на одной клетке я специально держал флот-прикрытия из 3 боевых кораблей, но они в бой не вступили - я запросил возврат средств. Просто накопилось этих несуразностей. Таких вот мелочей, от которых просто не понимаешь даже как реагировать, это же типа стратегия - подгорает пукан, Как чинить корабли на верфи так и не понял, хотя есть модуль для корабля ремонтника... но.. правда ведь - странно, если ремонт только другими кораблями? Попробуйте в общем поиграть в Polaris Sector, как по мне она больше затягивает.
Galciv 2 was more fun. Invasion works really weird in this game. You need legions which you only get one time from researching planetary invasion and from training citizens into generals. They are a difficult resource to get. The AI does not spread legions on its worlds, so as long as you defeat ships in orbit you can instaconquer any world which instantly completely flips to your side after which you can lift of your fleet and repeat. You can conquer any ai empire in a few turns this way. If a planet does have legions it becomes almost impossible to conquer. As then the population is suddenly allowed to help fight against the invasion. Minor races. Which were introduced in a dlc and which do nothing except have a world, never have legions. Meaning you can build a single troop transport and conquer 4 to 5 worlds for free. Population will also instantly transform to your race. Some artifacts are broken too allowing a single one of your fleets to reach ridiculous defense values. The AI will hate you if you are weak and attack you all the time. It will become docile if you are strong and gladly let you conquer it. Trading is difficult as all ai hate it if you trade with an enemy of theirs and pretty much all AI hate eachother. Ship combat is visually unimpressive. Micromanagements is a hell in this game. Also because the gui is laggy and slow.
I have played loads and loads and loads of space strategy games since the 80s and this game frustrates the living crap out of me. I cannot recommend this game at all and have always had issues with Galactic Civilizations series. Does not matter what i do, the approval rating drops on the planets so fast and i keep getting rebellion and lose planets. I have never had this problem on any other game. i do not know if this is intended or bug but this just made me rage quit and will uninstall and never play any GC game again. I am pulling my hair out and have no idea how to stop the approval dropping and it takes forever to research buildings to try and push up appoval. Anyway done with this game and cannot recommend this game. Also, I tried playing a bit more and then the AI hit me with wave after wave will loads of ships, so AI is clearly cheating even on Normal and its so obvious, one planet versus my 3 planets and still pump out loads of ships. Nope this game cheating and not good at all. My first time playing GCIII and will NOT be buying no 4.
Active players
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Players by region
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