Galactic Civilizations IV on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

Galactic Civilizations IV is a space, grand strategy and simulation game developed and published by Stardock Entertainment.
Released on October 19th 2023 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Italian, Simplified Chinese and Korean.

It has received 1,784 reviews of which 1,305 were positive and 479 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 38.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: Quad-Core Processor (Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 2x00)
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1GB VRAM Video Card
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 22 GB available space
  • Sound Card: Any
  • Additional Notes: 720p Minimum Screen Resolution Required

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March 2025
I have played GC 2 and 3, I like some of the additions 4 brings, especially the split galaxies. It seems to make the game more survivable in the early stages. Leaders and manned ships are interesting. The ability to choose the initial colony location fixes a pet peeve I have had with the earlier games - it seemed ridiculous to have the initial colony in a place where the bonuses can't be effective. There are a few issues: depending of the resolution and background the highlighted ship is difficult to see. A mechanism to identify, something similar to the CTRL key for the mouse pointer would be useful. As with GC3 the selected ship does not always get updated after an automove. The ship moves, but the selector does not advance, leaving the moved ship selected. Please plavce shipyards outside the planetary banners, or have a mechanism to hide the banners - they obscure ships as well. Battle predictions are often suspect, if they are not accurate, they are useless.
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Dec. 2024
It's about as good as stellaris. Its got some good balance. It uses AI just a little too much when generating images as there are some worlds that just don't look good, for example, trees floating in midair, makes it feel unfinished.
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Sept. 2024
While interesting, the galaxy being split into multiple sectors separated by a single paths doesn't enhance the game play that much. It seems to slow things down. The most annoying thing about the game is the bright galaxy background, it sometimes makes it hard to see objects in the foreground. It would be nice to be able to build a generic starbase like in galactic civ 3 and then choose what type afterwards. Requiring a mineable object to be in the initial starbase area of effect to create a mining base limits placement. It's unrealistic. Why can't I create a starbase, expand its area of effect through components and then choose the type of base. Finally, I've always been a strong proponent of allowing a starbase to be moved, albeit slowly, possibly with the effect of not giving it's effects that turn. Overall, the game is pretty good.
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July 2024
Pros: - most of the good things about Galactic Civ 3 in this game - not a lot of bugs - multiple subspace within galaxy makes the maps feel much bigger and better choke points. Cons: - VERY little new innovation over Galactic Civ 3 - did any creative design happen or just update graphics? - tool tips and feedback is noticeably lacking. Unless you look things up online or know from Gal Civ 3, many things are not obvious. - a few annoying bugs - cant launch troop ships without deploying a citizen. - some buildings seem to have not benefit - either excessive pollution or fighting non-existent crime.
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July 2024
When it works without silliness its a good consuming game and the hours fly by. However when your hundred hours of gameplay are interrupted by silliness that has been around a long time and not seemingly fixed then it is really irritating. As I age I am less tolerant of users/purchasers being Beta testers. Illogical ZOC, illogical Range of ships, Citizens disappearing, Ships sticking in starbase and the only way to extract them is decommission the starbase. Duh! If you can live with the silliness its a great game and so many ways to play.
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Galactic Civilizations IV
7.1
1,305
479
Online players
270
Developer
Stardock Entertainment
Publisher
Stardock Entertainment
Release 19 Oct 2023
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