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Eclipse - 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy
The galaxy, once peaceful after the Terran-Hegemony War, now faces rising tensions. The Galactic Council's efforts to maintain peace are failing as alliances shatter and secret treaties form. A confrontation looms—who will emerge victorious and rule the galaxy? Lead your people to victory!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Not perfect, but like another reviewer said, it functions well enough to let you try strategies in a little sandbox against computer players. It has frozen on me a couple of times on PC, so far no issues on Mac. Not a ton of effort was made to make the battles tense or…”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“It's a great board game and it's been successfully ported to PC. I'm really enjoying it. I have to play in windowed mode or the text is cut off.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“The reviews talking about the UI are valid. Text runs out of sight off the edge of windows, the game crashed on the ending screen too. There's no UI scaling so it's all a little small for my old eyes. I like what the developer has done with animating the combat, it's not a bad…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
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Improvements - Notch / Blueprints
- The alternate blueprints now also work in online play. - The UI now responds better to camera notch
Bugfixes and improvements - July the 1st - 2025
Steam Notifications Never miss your turn again! This major update introduces Steam notifications that will alert you instantly when it's your turn to play, when opponents make their moves, and for oth
Update notes for 09.04.25
Changes: - Remember influence highlight - Visualization of additional colony ships Fixes: - Hangup when purchasing Ancient Labs Technology - Game crashes if the warp portal had to be placed on the hom
Bug fixes and improvements for 2nd Dawn
Unfortunately, the update will make the current games unplayable. Please finish the games by then or wait to update until you have finished your games. Fixed the following problems: - AI chooses a war
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Casual, Strategy |
| Player tags | Casual · Strategy · Board Game · Exploration · Turn-Based Tactics · 2D · Aliens · Sci-fi · Space · Tactical · Hex Grid · Combat (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Adjustable Difficulty · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10, Windows 11 Processor: i3, AMD Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space