Worth it for the right player.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $4.99.
- Graphics: 34 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story and characters: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 22 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 2k player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Galactic Civilizations II is what you get if you take Master of Orion II, expand it so that the galaxy, tech tree and ship customisation are roughly a hundred times as huge without ever becoming boring, bump the graphics up to a standard still respectable today for a TBS, give each civilization some serious make-or-break differences (hint: the Drengin and the Yor almost always end up dominating most of the galaxy that ISN'T YOU), and shove it out there to give almost every other space-based TBS a serious poke in the eye.
+High Replayability
So you can play for weeks a single campaign or a few hours depending on your initial setup.
+ Actually really nice soundtrack for a 4X game.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $4.99 (−50%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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