Game Description

Prepare yourself to explore the galaxy, research new technologies, meet new alien civilizations and develop a galactic civilization that will pass the test of time.

As leader of a fledgling interstellar species, it’s up to you to guide your people to develop new worlds, construct new kinds of starships and fight wars to ensure your civilization survives in what is often a hostile universe.

4X Meets Grand Strategy
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate are just the start! Our in-game storyteller is combined with a sophisticated AI strategist to ensure that the living, lore rich universe you are experiencing is also populated with opponents who follow their own agendas and wield the intellect to make good on them.

Design Your Own Cosmic Legacy
Unleash your creativity with the unrivaled power of AlienGPT by describing your civilization’s characteristics, preferences, and aspirations, and watch our AI weave them into distinctive lore, diplomatic dialogues, starship selections, and ambassador portraits.

Play Tall or Wide
Govern as few, or as many, worlds as you like with the Core World and Colony split system. Tall play is viable by linking many Colonies into just a handful of Core Worlds, greatly increasing their resource output. Alternatively, many lower class planets can be manually improved and developed for a super-wide playstyle.

Craft Custom Interstellar Fleets
Harness your creative abilities to construct interstellar armadas with the Ship Designer, a feature that allows you to design and customize your own interstellar spacecraft. With an array of options for hulls, weapons, engines, and more, you can create a fleet that perfectly suits your strategy and style.

Forge a Unique Empire
With setup options that allow the player to play games lasting less than an hour, or for months, Galactic Civilizations IV supports many viable strategies. Create or play as a civilization with deep diplomatic and cultural abilities or play as a ravenous species bent on spreading to every world in the universe: Galactic Civilizations offers a deep set of options to ensure your style of play is rewarded.

Claim Victory Your Way
Conquering your rivals with force of arms isn’t the only way to win – enlighten the galaxy with superior cultural influence, navigate treacherous diplomatic waters to unite your rivals under your leadership, or earn a Prestige Victory with difficult Galactic Challenges.

Never The Same Game Twice
Experience thrilling adventures within procedurally generated galaxies teeming with surprises. Engage with a multitude of galactic events and rival civilizations to ensure every game is a unique and exciting experience, filled with challenges and opportunities.
Game Features

• Explore the galaxy: Seek out new star systems and discover the exciting potential of the subspace realm.
• Meet new civilizations: The universe is teeming with civilizations both advanced and primitive. Set opponents’ difficulty and technological advancement.
• Colonize new worlds: Thousands of worlds to colonize, most awful but all colonizable…if you dare.
• Discover new technologies: Invent new technologies, some are easier than others for your species to grasp.
• Recruit and mentor citizens: Each citizen is unique with their own strengths and weaknesses.
• Shape your government: Determine which citizens to place in positions of power and what planets you wish to see governed while taking care not to be defeated in a coup.
• Choose your destiny: Choose the type of civilization you want to be through your actions and choices.
• Adventure awaits you: The galaxy has a rich, ancient history that you will discover through missions and events.
• Challenge your friends in multiplayer: Engage in tense 1v1 stand-offs in Arena mode, pivot your playstyle to take on new challenges and achieve ever-changing goals in Agenda mode.

Included DLCs:

• Soundtrack
• Tales of Centauron
• Warlords
• Species Pack
• Megastructures
• Tales of the Arnor
• Tales of the Terran Alliance

Game Description

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources.

In the first 4X turn-based strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four factions: Astra Militarum, Space Marines, Orks and Necrons, each with their own unique gameplay, technological tree, units and heroes.

Face a challenging AI or cooperate or compete with friends and strangers across the globe.

Included DLCs/Bonuses

• Relics of War – Soundtrack
• Lord of Skulls
• Relics of War – Wallpapers
• Reinforcement Pack
• Tyranids
• Chaos Space Marines
• Fortification Pack
• T’au
• Assault Pack
• Craftworld Aeldari
• Specialist Pack
• Adeptus Mechanicus
• Escalation Pack
• Adepta Sororitas
• Firepower Pack
• Drukhari
• Demolition Pack
• Ultima Founding
• Onslaught Pack
• Rampage Pack

Game Description

Distant Worlds Returns! Distant Worlds, the critically acclaimed 4X space strategy game is back with a brand new 64-bit engine, 3D graphics and a polished interface to begin an epic new Distant Worlds series with Distant Worlds 2.

THE GALAXY LIVES ON:
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. The Universe is Yours!

Huge Galaxies with up to 2,000 star systems and tens of thousands of planets, moons and asteroids are yours to explore and exploit, whether peacefully through mining and diplomacy or by conquest! The complex process of generating a galaxy ensures that every new game will be different and the many galaxy setup options ensure incredible replayability as well as the ability to have your game be just the way you like it.

CHOOSE YOUR SIDE:
Galaxies are so deep, fun and immersive that you won’t want to finish the game. Choose from seven playable base game factions which cover a wide variety of playstyles. Build, expand and improve your empire while playing through the storylines, with victory conditions or in an open-ended sandbox mode. Each galaxy is packed with life and activity. Encounter other empires, independent alien colonies, traders, pirates and space monsters. Explore star systems, asteroid fields, galactic storms and black holes. Discover evidence of civilizations long since past, uncovering secrets about the galaxy’s troubled history…

CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING:
Intelligent automation allows you to tailor the game to your preferred playstyle and scale. Decide how much you want to control and which gameplay areas suit you best. You can limit your focus to just one ship or expand it all the way up to everything in a vast galactic empire. Let your advisors and the intelligent automation handle the rest!

BUILD YOUR OWN:
A Built-in Game Editor allows you to fine-tune your own galaxy, adding or removing star systems, planets, asteroids, ships, star bases, space monsters or anything else. Modify the attributes of any empire in your game for the ultimate custom experience.

Extensive In-Game Help is included. Exhaustive, built-in, context-sensitive help is always only a single key-press away. Press F1 at any time for a detailed explanation of the current game screen, your currently selected item, and so on, or just browse the complete “Galactopedia”

Tutorials are included to quickly familiarize you with all of the game elements and tools.

Best of all, these all combine to let you play the game your way: enjoy a quick, intense game in a crowded sector of space or take your time in an epic game spread across a vast galaxy!

Game Description

From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?

Humanity emerges, hesitantly, into ruination. Almost nothing is left of the world as we knew it-settlements, forests, seas, mountains-all have been blasted into unfamiliarity. Horribly mutated animals hunt in packs through deformed woodland. Decrepit military robots stumble unknowingly through the ruins, sensors and logic centres blown. Alien soldiers, once impossibly powerful, cower in the wrecks of their ships, praying to heedless gods for rescue.

Control the survivors of humanity in a near-future apocalypse of alien origin. Pick a path between the indifferent abominations of the Voice and the uncaring automata of ZEPHON, with city management, turn-based tactical combat, unholy research, diplomatic maneuvering, and branching narrative quests. Gather your allies and pick your actions wisely.

On the planet Earth, that was once a cradle of life, the extinction of humanity is at hand.

[i]What will you do to survive?[/i]

Game Features

• BATTLE – Intense turn-based survival strategy in both single and multiplayer. Command over 50 unique units in battle-each with its own graphics, voice overs, weapon systems and sets of traits and abilities. Plan out optimal build orders amongst 3 asymmetric paths-Human, Voice and Cyber-or combine them in surprising ways. Deploy tactical operations-interference protocols, otherworldly hymns of decay and even nuclear weapons-to gain an advantage. Combat occurs on the main map-no switching modes and having to auto-resolve battles because they drag on too long. Use distinctive leader abilities in fully-featured multiplayer-with or against your friends.
• BUILD – Take your settlements from scrappy bases to sprawling metropolises as your faction expands its sphere of influence. Find and grow your cities by constructing buildings on tiles-everything you build needs space. Optimize an empire-wide economy with 11 tiered resources-allowing you to specialize cities by their placement. Recognize each building by its appearance-3 architecture styles to accompany your chosen path. Fortify key strategic points to prevent enemies from assailing your positions-sometimes defense is the best defense.
• EXPLORE – Traverse the unfamiliarity of the destroyed Earth and unveil its deadly new secrets. Discover dozens of terrain features and phenomena spread across 6 climates-flesh trees, microchip factories, traveling sandstorms, erupting volcanoes and much more. Tune the generation of a new post-apocalyptic game world-cliffsides, ruins and deformed woodland occupied by violent wildlife and expanding NPCs acting out their own agendas. Exterminate packs of mutated animals to collect caches full of rewards, capture outposts and expand your reach-one turn at a time.
• RESEARCH – As mankind strives to catch up to the new masters of the Earth, you’ll make strange new discoveries that could be just what you need to survive. Unlock over 150 technologies spread across 10 tiers-units, buildings, operations, weapons, abilities and passive bonuses. Advance from post-apocalyptic survivalism-through a blend of magic and cyberpunk aesthetics-before achieving transhuman transcendence. Observe each unit upgrade visualized on the model-outfit regular, large and titanic units with cruise missiles, tunneling nails, deflector shields, and much more. Read exact modifier numbers in tooltips and the easy-to-browse in-game compendium-so you don’t have to scour the internet for information.
• NEGOTIATE – Diplomatic negotiations are key to staving off defeat-but your opponents are watching your actions and reacting. Roleplay with AI-controlled opponents through diplomatic encounters-each AI comes with their own likes and dislikes based on their character. Establish peace, trading agreements and alliances-or use your influence to antagonize your friends towards each other. Choose sides-ZEPHON, Acrin and Reaver non-player factions permeate the world and need to be contended with.
• DECIDE – As the clash between ZEPHON and the Acrin continues, your choice of Leader and path will determine who survives in the wreckage of Earth. Steer your empire through multistage, branching, unexpected events-nightmares, cries for help and economic crashes all have to be dealt with. Dive into your chosen leader’s backstory through their unique quest chain-complete it to unlock a permanent reward. Play a key part in determining if humanity, machines or horrors prevail-the clash between ZEPHON and Acrin continues across the planet. Resolve the prophecy that has brought the Acrin to Earth to unlock new game modifiers-all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

Included DLCs/Bonuses:

• Supporter Upgrade
• Digital Artbook & Wallpapers
• Original Soundtrack
• The Twisted & The Hollow
• The Infinite & The Platinum

Game Description

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design in Age of Wonders 4! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn.

Triumph Studios’ award-winning strategy series has emerged into a new age, evolving the game’s iconic empire building, role-playing, and warfare to the next level. A new storytelling event system and hugely customizable empires provide an endlessly replayable experience, where each game adds a new chapter to your ever-growing saga.

Powerful Wizard Kings have returned to the realms to reign as gods among mortals. Claim and master the Tomes of Magic to evolve your people, and prepare for an epic battle that will determine the ages to come.

Game Features

• Craft your followers by combining bodily forms, societal traits and arcane powers. Build anything from a clan of cannibal halflings to mystic moon elves, or recreate your favorite fantasy tropes
• Seek powerful tomes of magic to enchant your armies and evolve your people! See your people physically change as they morph into angelic beings or scions of chaos to face their enemies.
• Seek glory through brutal domination, cunning alliances, or ultimate arcane knowledge, and write your legacy into the very fabric of the realm itself!
• Every choice opens up new possibilities and tactical advantages; deep, multilayered strategy allows you to try new tactics or explore new powers at every turn
• Tactical turn-based battles bring your armies to life, showcasing their power in an environment shaped by your decisions. From skirmishes with roaming monsters to vast sieges with dozens of units on each side, with the addition of a morale system and more features, every battle brings a fresh challenge
• Tremendous variety in empires, units, and environments keep the game endlessly replayable. Age of Wonders is more moddable and open-ended than ever in the series’ history
• Explore a new realm with each game – or create your own! Challenge new variations and combinations of locations and features, from frozen wastelands ruled by ice queens to desolated ruins where dragons roam
• A new event system provides unexpected levels of storytelling for 4X games. See your decisions shape the world around you, from growing cities and roaming armies to world-warping magic effects
• Guide your empire to greatness – but the story doesn’t end with your victory or defeat! Ascend your rulers to an in-game pantheon and unlock ways to further customize your experience. Encounter your own creations as potential rivals or allies in subsequent games, and experience the next chapter in your own story!

Included DLCs:

• Archmage Attire
• Archon Prophecy
• Collector’s Bundle
• Cosmic Wanderer
• Dragon Dawn
• Eldritch Realms
• Empires & Ashes
• Giant Kings
• Herald of Glory
• Pre-Order Content Pack
• Primal Fury
• Rise from Ruin
• Sign-Up Content
• Thrones of Blood
• Ways of War

Expansion Passes are not real DLCs, hence not listed here.