Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade
The shield around Earth has been eliminated, but humanity has been anything but idle. Furious that their attempts at diplomacy and goodwill were met with treachery and violence, Earth has turned to its most…
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade is a strategy developed by Stardock, released 4 May 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade is
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade is a strategy game developed by Stardock and released in 2017. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Galactic Civilizations III is a 4X turn-based strategy video game developed by Stardock for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to 2006's Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. The full version of the game was released in May 2015. The game's first expansion, titled Mercenaries, was released in February 2016.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 19 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD K10 Dual-Core, 4 GB RAM and 512 MB DirectX 10.1 Video Card (AMD Radeon HD5x00 Series / Nvidia GeForce 500 Series / Intel HD 4000 or later). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 12GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade launched on 4 May 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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