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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition

Stardock Entertainment · 2011-12-02

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 26, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

24
playing now
77%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is a 4X turn-based strategy by Stardock for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to the 2003 game, Galactic Civilizations, and was released at retail and on Stardock's online subscription service, TotalGaming.net, on February 21, 2006. An expansion, Dark Avatar, was released in February 2007. A second expansion, Twilight of the Arnor, was released in April 2008.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 19% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 68k–137k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,711 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.00-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at GreenManGaming (2015-07-20) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 80 of 81 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

3782026-08-06 22:00 — 32 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 26 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 30 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 16 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 18 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 36 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 22 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 16 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 37 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 14 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 20 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 21 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 21 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 27 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 20 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 27 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 17 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 32 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 21 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 18 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 21 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 27 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 35 players2026-08-30 18:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$4.002015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $6.782015-07-30 — best price $7.982015-12-11 — best price $4.992016-08-25 — best price $9.992016-12-26 — best price $19.992017-11-06 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $9.992018-12-10 — best price $9.992019-06-17 — best price $5.002019-11-08 — best price $10.002020-01-23 — best price $8.502020-05-03 — best price $19.992020-07-09 — best price $19.992020-09-13 — best price $17.882020-10-30 — best price $19.992021-01-04 — best price $9.992021-02-12 — best price $14.692021-04-05 — best price $9.992021-06-02 — best price $14.692021-09-06 — best price $8.002021-12-03 — best price $16.882022-02-18 — best price $9.992022-06-08 — best price $14.692022-10-13 — best price $15.892023-01-18 — best price $18.082023-05-26 — best price $15.892023-10-02 — best price $9.992024-02-05 — best price $19.992024-05-24 — best price $14.692024-09-10 — best price $19.992025-01-05 — best price $14.692025-05-19 — best price $4.992025-10-20 — best price $9.992026-02-16 — best price $4.002026-05-16 — best price $9.992026-08-24 — best price $4.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4332026-05-31 — 9 pageviews2026-06-03 — 13 pageviews2026-06-06 — 4 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-12 — 10 pageviews2026-06-15 — 15 pageviews2026-06-18 — 20 pageviews2026-06-21 — 9 pageviews2026-06-24 — 11 pageviews2026-06-27 — 12 pageviews2026-06-30 — 14 pageviews2026-07-03 — 7 pageviews2026-07-06 — 11 pageviews2026-07-09 — 9 pageviews2026-07-12 — 9 pageviews2026-07-15 — 10 pageviews2026-07-18 — 11 pageviews2026-07-21 — 11 pageviews2026-07-24 — 21 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-30 — 15 pageviews2026-08-02 — 16 pageviews2026-08-05 — 10 pageviews2026-08-08 — 14 pageviews2026-08-11 — 13 pageviews2026-08-14 — 17 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-20 — 17 pageviews2026-08-23 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 17 pageviews2026-08-28 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo SoundFamily Sharing

Player tags

3D4XSpaceSci-fiSandboxBuildingModdableStrategyTop-DownDiplomacy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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