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Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which you are in control of humanity's destiny.
What players say
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“Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition, developed and published by Stardock Entertainment, is a product of an earlier era of strategy design, one that prioritizes thoughtful systems and deliberate pacing over accessibility and visual flair. As a complete package that…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“crashes too much, has way too many issues with having to manually figure out the display and run components windows considers sketchy. I loved this game but sadly unless it's actually made windows compatible again it's just a waste of time.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
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Update Now Available: Performance Fixes
Update Now Available: Performance Fixes Get GalCiv I Now We’re excited to share a quick update regarding a recent fix that enhances your gaming experience in Galactic Civilizations I. With this update
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Stardock’s award-winning turn-based strategy game series gets its biggest release ever Stardock announced the release of Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Edition (Supernova) today. Stardock is cel
Now in Early Access - Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova
Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Edition now available in early access Early Access adds ChatGPT integration: AlienGPT https://youtu.be/rA_b-H7xuow Stardock has released the latest sequel of its a
Minor Update for Compatibility
Added 'w' to default launch options from within Steam. This forces the game to launch in a window as full-screen can fail to instantiate. Updated prefs.ini to turn off viewable ship battles; this was
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | 4X · Grand Strategy · Turn-Based · Strategy · PvE · Difficult · Turn-Based Strategy · 2D · Sandbox · Top-Down · Space · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | https://www.galciv1.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 10 / 8 / 7 SP1 / Vista SP2 / XP SP3 Processor: 600 MHz Processor Memory: 128 MB RAM Graphics: 8 MB DirectX 8.1 Compatible Video Card DirectX®: 8.1 Hard Drive: 700 MB HD space Sound: DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card