Galactic Civilizations IV
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Reviews
- 72% of 2,614 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM Video Card, 22 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, NEBULOUS: Fleet Command ($14.99, scores 40) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ ($39.99, scores 9).
More about Galactic Civilizations IV
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 761 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Galactic Civilizations IV scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1357210/galactic-civilizations-ivReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.