Your choice determines how you play and win. Each playable faction has their own unique specializations. Massive technology tree: Research a technology tree with immense breadth and depth. Story-based campaign: Learn the ancient histories of the alien civilizations and one possible future for the human race. Create your own history: Each sandbox game lets you create a new future history for your civilization. Multiple paths to victory: Win through military conquest, cultural domination, technological ascension, or political alliance. All of this, topped with a rich and in-depth custom ship designer ensure an immersive and exciting experience as you decide how to rule your galaxy.CORE FEATURES: Never the same game twice: Play in the ultimate sandbox where each game has a unique map, worlds, and challenges to face - all on a massive scale. The new multiplayer capabilities also allow you to expand your challenges and fights beyond an AI in order to face off against fellow players. Galactic Civilizations III also removes linear victory conditions and offers you multiple objectives that you can choose to pursue in order to win, such as military conquest, cultural domination, technological ascension, or political alliances. And when you've finished that, play again as one of the many included alien civilizations each with its own history, technology tree, ship components and more.NEVER THE SAME GAME TWICEEach new game offers an array of options as you set it up - choose your map size, abundance of planets and resources, frequency of events, and more for a unique play experience every time. Research new technology, design starships, negotiate trade and treaties, wage wars, colonize new worlds, construct starbases in the largest 4X strategy game ever made. Alien civilizations with their own histories and motivations are expanding as well. Soon, you will discover that we are not alone. As the leader of the newly formed Terran Alliance, you will guide humanity's expansion into becoming a space-based civilization. The human race has finally mastered faster-than-light travel opening up the stars for exploration and colonization.

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