Galactic Civilizations III

Galactic Citizens: Shape the course of your civilization’s destiny with talented individuals called citizens. Hypergates: Construct powerful gateways that, when linked, allow your fleets to travel even faster across hyperspace. Carefully plan your attacks, and don’t forget to leave your homeworld defended, too! Create your own history: Each sandbox game lets you create a new future history for your civilization. Multiple paths to victory: Win through military conquest, cultural domination, technological ascension, or political alliance. Your choice determines how you play and win. Invasions: Train your citizens to be soldiers and invade enemy worlds. What if one day, humans woke up to find that they weren’t alone in the galaxy? They make their way into space and discover other alien civilizations with their own histories and motivations looking to make a name for themselves. Each has its own set of special abilities, bonuses, and ship parts. Negotiate trade and treaties, wage wars, spy on your enemies, and promote outstanding citizens. Join the ranks of galactic leaders today, and answer the question: how will you rule your galaxy?NEVER THE SAME GAME TWICE Each new game offers an array of options as you set it up - choose your map size, abundance of planets and resources, frequency of events, and more for a unique play experience every time. RETRIBUTION EXPANSION Artifacts: Powerful items buried on planets across the galaxy will give your civilization instant-access to new abilities. Updated Technology Tree: A top to bottom overhaul of the technology tree adds depth and sharpens the strategic choices in your research options. Choose your race - Human, Drengin, Altarian, and so many more - and lead your civilization into a golden age in one of the largest 4X strategy games ever made! Retribution Campaign: The malevolent Drengin Empire thought humans were soft and peace-loving. MEGA EVENTS Complex Decisions: Use skill and strategy to overcome unexpected challenges Galaxy-wide Events: Deal with issues on a galactic scale Guide your Civilization: Comfort your people through assassinations of beloved leaders, choose how to handle the discovery of a And when you've finished that, play again as one of the many included alien civilizations each with its own history, technology tree, ship components, and more. Multiplayer: Play online with friends with full support for custom civilizations, saved multiplayer games, and much more. Massive technology tree: Research a technology tree with immense breadth and depth. Galactic Civilizations III now bundles in the Crusade and Retribution expansions, plus the Mega Events add-on content for an even greater gameplay experience! Planetary Governors: Utilize individual planetary leaders to govern your worlds, deciding what improvements to build and when, which leaves you to focus on larger strategic goals. Research new technology, design starships, and colonize new worlds as you face threats and conquer challenges from new and mysterious sources. Espionage: Spies can steal technologies, circulate rumors to create civil unrest, sabotage enemy worlds, or even go so far as to assassinate enemy citizens. Each playable faction has their own unique specializations. Story-based campaign: Learn the ancient histories of the alien civilizations and one possible future for the human race. Supply ships: Deliver goods and services to your other planets using supply ships in order to aid in their development. The new multiplayer capabilities also allow you to expand your challenges and fights beyond an AI in order to face off against fellow players. They made a terrible mistake that may now end in their extinction. Galactic Civilizations III also removes linear victory conditions and offers you multiple objectives that you can choose to pursue in order to win, such as military conquest, cultural domination, technological ascension, or political alliances. CRUSADE EXPANSION Civilization Builder: Create a custom faction complete with leader, ideology, and abilities. Faction & Ship Customization: Create a civilization with its own look, ships, technologies, and even options for how the AI will use them. A deep economy: Every world is unique with many different resources that can change the course of your strategy each game. All of this, topped with a rich and in-depth custom ship designer ensure an immersive and exciting experience as you decide how to rule your galaxy.CORE FEATURES:BASE GAME The ultimate sandbox experience: Each game has a unique map, worlds, and challenges to face -- all on a massive scale. Major Civilizations - Drath and Korath: The manipulative Drath pull the strings across the galaxy, while the Korath rely on extermination. Play against 16 to 100 opponents. Choose from over a dozen unique roles - commander, engineer, farmer, celebrity, and more. Customize your own galactic navy and create unique dialogue for your faction.

Galactic Civilizations III