FAQ

Galactic Civilizations is a series of space-based 4X strategy games set in the far future where humans have started to colonize the stars. Earth has united after discovering the existence of alien civilizations and has invented a faster-than-light technology called Hyperdrive. Galactic Civilizations has always focused on the exploration, expansion, and inevitable conflict that arises from multiple civilizations all vying for the same thing: total galactic control.

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Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova is currently available via Steam or Epic.

Galactic Civilizations IV was fully released in April 2022 on Epic Games. Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova was fully released in October 2023.

For players who never purchased or played GalCiv IV on Epic, GalCiv IV: Supernova is a sequel to GalCiv III (Supernova includes everything GalCiv IV has PLUS everything new to Supernova). For players who purchased GalCiv IV on Epic, GalCiv IV: Supernova plays as an expansion.

No it will not. GalCiv IV: Supernova includes everything GalCiv IV has PLUS everything new to Supernova.

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Upgrades are available on Epic Games for eligible customers who purchased Galactic Civilizations IV.

• Simulated Universe
• Strong AI Opponents
• Rich Lore
• Multiple paths to victory
• Player customization: ships, civilizations, and more
• Over a dozen civilizations to choose from – from humans, to robots, to giant alien bug monsters
• Research new technology from huge tech trees and learn new abilities
• Build up planets to increase manufacturing and research capabilities
• Explore the galaxy and meet new alien civilizations
• Build alliances, fight wars, and invade planets
• Win the game through conquest, research, diplomacy, culture, or prestige (new in IV)

Steam Purchasers: Galactic Civilizations IV is included within Supernova.

Epic Purchasers: Those who purchased GalCiv IV on Epic can upgrade from Galactic Civilizations IV to Supernova for a highly discounted rate.

Nope, not at all! While there is some long-standing lore woven throughout the games, you make each play through your own unique experience. You don’t have to have any former knowledge of the series to play.

Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova is a turn-based 4X strategy game.

Unfortunately, no. We’ve made several improvements to the underlying system to allow for cooler-looking ships. Because of this, there isn’t a way to import older models into the game.

Modding (short for modification or modifying) is the process of editing or changing the structure, syntax, or code of a game. While you can certainly play with xml files and change the game around, we make modding the game accessible with our Metaverse Workshop. Using the tools there, you can create your own custom civilizations and ships without having to dive into any code.

The Metaverse Workshop is where you’ll add your own personal flare to the game. There are two big things you can customize in our workshop: ships and civilizations.

Ship design is a lot like playing with building blocks! We give you tons of pieces to put together in any way you see fit so you can create the vision you like, then provide you options for stats and improvements to include so that ship integrates well within the game.

Civilization design lets you create your own civilizations to play as or against. You can upload photos and images, choose your own abilities, and assign your own traits to create something truly unique.

In Supernova, we've harnessed cutting edge AI technology to expand how deep these custom civilizations can become.  Fully integrated with the Metaverse Workshop and Powered by ChatGPT, with our new AlienGPT technology you’ll be able to create a completely customized and unique-feeling alien civilization with a few short prompts and a couple quick clicks. 

Once you've uploaded your images and filled out all the civilization's traits and abilities, you'll be able to write a few short sentences of description to inform the AI about what kind of vision you have for your civilization. Are they shifty and suspicious? Cruel and malevolent? Kind and trusting? Filling in these details will send a prompt to the AI, which will generate the civilization’s history, slogan, and descriptions of their strengths and weaknesses. 

The AI is also fully capable of creating text for unique AI conversations for when you make first contact, declare war, instigate trade, and more. Don’t feel like filling out traits and prompts? No problem, you can bypass all of that and just generate a civilization completely at random. 

Stardock has been making space games for 30 years. So we have a fairly extensive library of aliens to train AI image generators on.

• Audio: English
• Text: English, German

• OS: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-Core Processor
• Memory: 8GB RAM
• Storage: 14 GB
• Direct X 11
• Graphics: 1 GB Video Card
• Resolution: 1920x1080

• OS: Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-Core Processor
• Memory: 16GB RAM
• Storage: 14 GB
• Direct X 11
• Graphics: 1 GB Video Card