Galactic Civilizations III - PC (Steam)

NEVER THE SAME GAME TWICE

CORE FEATURES:

• The ultimate sandbox experience: Each game has a unique map, worlds, and challenges to face -- all on a massive scale. Play against 16 to 100 opponents.
  
• Multiple paths to victory: Win through military conquest, cultural domination, technological ascension, or political alliance.
  
• Create your own history: Each sandbox game lets you create a new future history for your civilization.
  
• Story-based campaign: Learn the ancient histories of the alien civilizations and one possible future for the human race.
  
• Massive technology tree: Research a technology tree with immense breadth and depth. Each playable faction has their own unique specializations. Your choice determines how you play and win.
  
• Faction & Ship Customization: Create a civilization with its own look, ships, technologies, and even options for how the AI will use them.
  
• Multiplayer: Play online with friends with full support for custom civilizations, saved multiplayer games, and much more.
  
• A deep economy: Every world is unique with many different resources that can change the course of your strategy each game.
  
• 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.

• Artifacts: Powerful items buried on planets across the galaxy will give your civilization instant-access to new abilities.
  
• Hypergates: Construct powerful gateways that, when linked, allow your fleets to travel even faster across hyperspace.
  
• Major Civilizations - Drath and Korath: The manipulative Drath pull the strings across the galaxy, while the Korath rely on extermination. Each has its own set of special abilities, bonuses, and ship parts.
  
• Supply ships: Deliver goods and services to your other planets using supply ships in order to aid in their development.
  
• Updated Technology Tree: A top to bottom overhaul of the technology tree adds depth and sharpens the strategic choices in your research options.
  
• Retribution Campaign: The malevolent Drengin Empire thought humans were soft and peace-loving. They made a terrible mistake that may now end in their extinction.

• Civilization Builder: Create a custom faction complete with leader, ideology, and abilities. Customize your own galactic navy and create unique dialogue for your faction.
  
• Invasions: Train your citizens to be soldiers and invade enemy worlds. Carefully plan your attacks, and don’t forget to leave your homeworld defended, too!
  
• Espionage: Spies can steal technologies, circulate rumors to create civil unrest, sabotage enemy worlds, or even go so far as to assassinate enemy citizens.
  
• Galactic Citizens: Shape the course of your civilization’s destiny with talented individuals called citizens. Choose from over a dozen unique roles - commander, engineer, farmer, celebrity, and more.

• 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 mysterious alien artifact, face down the Dread Lords, and more.