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In 2718, multiple civilizations scour the galaxy colonizing planets. Galactic Civilizations lets gamers compete with various alien races in a quest for survival and domination. The simple interface belies an extremely involved and challenging turn-based strategy game with interesting RPG elements. The graphics and sound won't put much stress on your hardware, but they have a certain retro charm.
The game starts simply, as players develop technologies and colonize the galaxy. Once the colonies have been established, the game becomes a race for resources and a battle for technological, political, military, or cultural supremacy, based on customizable victory conditions. The technology tree is tremendous fun, featuring Mind Terror Weapons, Interspecies Philosophy, and Overlord Technology. The various political parties, alien racial attributes, and galactic events give each game a character and story of its own. The lack of an effective in-game tutorial makes immersing yourself in the game take longer than it should, and the game lacks a true multiplayer version; but Galactic Civilizations is great fun for strategists, especially fans of table-top RPGs such as Star Frontiers.
Publisher's Description
From Stardock:
Galactic Civilizations is a space-based strategy game set near the dawn of the 23rd century. As the leader of humankind, you must expand civilization into a hostile galaxy filled with alien empires bent on galactic domination. The game has a heavy emphasis on diplomacy, economics, and culture, as well as military generalship. Galactic Civilizations won Editor's Choice awards from Computer Gaming World and Computer Games magazines.
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All versions:
4.7 starsout of 24 votes
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Current version:
4.7 starsout of 24 votes
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"Superb....Fun...Outstanding"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Pros
Tons of great stategic fun
Cons
The AI will spank your butt in no time on occasion.
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"excellent"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Pros
clean interface, superb AI, great fun
Cons
sometimes the AI will kick your butt before you have the chance to do anything about it.
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"A great, well-tuned strategy game"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
Galactic Civilizations is an awesome game. It has extremely customizable difficulty, so you can start out easy and play more and more challenging opponants.
The computer AI is supert, and the four different winning conditions allow for superb replayability (shoot for a military victory, or win by research, or influence, or alliances... it's up to you, and each is challenging.
You also get to play as evil, good, or neutral -- and each choice influences how the other civilizations react to you.
Very highly recommended! I've been playing for years, and can still get engrossed. -
"good"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
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"Outstanding"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
I Know Galciv since the very first OS/2 Version back 1997. I still play the OS/2 version and now have great fun with Windows Version.
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"excellent game....HIGHLY addictive"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
This was an amazing game back in 1993 when it was on OS/2. Now it's back in Windows and much better than before. I LOVE IT. The demo version limits the lenght of the game and some other things, but I'm sure that after a week of playing the demo, you'll go out and buy it!
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"Shades of MOO!"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
Haven't seen as good a turn based strategy game since 1993.
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"good space strategy game"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
lots of research, nice graphics, very good ai, addictive and intersting. Each tech has a small synopsis which is a good education in case you don't know what they mean.
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"Been Playing Since OS/2 Version"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
CAn be very frustrating at the nhigher levels. And with expansion packs very addicting.
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"well developed game"
Version: Galactic Civilizations 1.0
Summary
Hey , I liked this demo. A good, if not slightly addictive game. the down side is.. $40 for a 1993 game..... i dont think so, but the download is worth a try for us thinking gamers
