Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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!

Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is a 4x, grand strategy and turn-based game developed and published by Stardock Entertainment.
Released on December 02nd 2011 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,650 reviews of which 1,269 were positive and 381 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 10.25€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition into these genres:

4X Grand Strategy Turn-Based Turn-Based Strategy 3D Strategy Base-Building Top-Down Sandbox Sci-fi Diplomacy Management Building Moddable Space Artificial Intelligence War Aliens Futuristic Combat

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Operating system: Windows® XP SP3 / Vista™ SP2 / Windows® 7 / 8.1 / 10
  • Processor: Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
  • Memory: 512 MB (1 GB for Windows 7 / Vista)
  • Hard disk space: 2 GB
  • Video:64 MB DirectX 9.0c Compatible Video Card
  • Sound: DirectX® 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
  • DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c

  • Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection, also to activate this game you must create a Stardock account while launching the game on Steam.

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174 hours played
Aug. 2025
This game way more fun than I thought it would be. I recommend it to any one that is into sci-fi and stradegy games - 4x
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459 hours played
Aug. 2025
Overall, I love this game, but I will give everyone a warning. Do not play with random events set to happen on maps beyond the large size. The reason that it will have the event that caps your movement to 5 Parsecs occur, with reloading from saves not stopping it from occurring. It have played over 20 times on maps that are huge and immense with the random events enabled and it will ALWAYS happen, within 50 turns of starting the game. On a map of that size, that particular event should be disabled, why the game developers never removed it from the pool of available events for the largest sized maps is ridiculous.
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3 hours played
July 2025
This is a GREAT GAME, especially for people that have older machines or don't want to invest in a beefier PC to run games. This one for me was my intro into this franchise, and it has left an impression on me well over two decades later. I mostly play 3 now, but I have to appreciate this old classic, which is why I bought it for a second time on Steam. Sidenotes: After leaving reviews for 3 and 4. Figured it would be good to leave a review for this one. Please disregard my 2 hours playtime, I played it back when Stardock had that old website which went defunct along with the other 3rd party distributor that I could no longer download from (Stardock: don't think some of us have forgotten that, glad to see you made it to Steam, probably the best move you made).
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78 hours played
July 2025
I know that GC III and IV are out now - but I owned the original for years and never made the time to play it. I've now tried the original twice and the same thing happened - I was busy building my civilization, then another one came along and quickly crushed me. Plus - the graphics were so tiny, and the interface unintuitive so it was very hard for me to track my ships or feel very engaged with the game. It was both underwhelming and frustrating. I've now played GC II through for one full game and it was much better. Still not up to modern standards for immersion, but it was way more playable. There is a campaign but that is for more experienced players. There are a lot of customization options for setting up the game. There's still not a lot of visible action much of the time - your time is spent scrolling through your planets and their build orders, setting your research path, building ships, sending them out on missions, and trying to negotiate with alien leaders, once you begin meeting them. You can pick how many and which major races are in your galaxy as well as "minor" races (which only control one star system) and you can pick and customize your own race. You can play this with a number of styles like most 4x games: warrior, researcher, trader, negotiator, espionage etc. All in all this is a game that's fairly easy to learn without a manual and a decent bargain now. I'll be trying out III and IV but I'll probably try GC II again as well!
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57 hours played
June 2025
Classic game. III and IV are improved versions but this one is only about 2GB and scratches the itch still.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is currently priced at 10.25€ on Steam.

No, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 10.25€ on Steam.

Yes, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition received 1,269 positive votes out of a total of 1,650 achieving a rating of 7.40.
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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition was developed and published by Stardock Entertainment.

Yes, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is not playable on MacOS.

No, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is not playable on Linux.

Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is a single-player game.

No, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition does not currently offer any DLC.

No, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition PEGI 3
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Release 02 Dec 2011
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