Galimulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 503 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 466 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
About the game
Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 14 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 26 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 67 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Reus 2 ($24.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats The Universim ($29.99, scores 58).
More about Galimulator
2 of the 321 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
3 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 09:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's an incredibly simple simulation, but there's enough to keep me entertained at the very least. I love the games inclusion of a dynasty system, even with how primitive as it is; it's quite fun to follow the tale of a dynasty that rises from nothing and ends up becoming the imperial family of some backwater enclave in the galactic hegemon. Honestly thinking about it why aren't there more games about dynasties in a...
2 more reviews
>be me >open galimulator >start 2000 star galaxy (spiral) >watching empires crumble and rise >pretty chill >"huh the one empire is falling pretty fast, but they've got one enclave in the southern core that's only holding due to a gun stati-" >idea.jpg >struggled with emperor mode before >realize the key to success and glorious conquest= >TOTAL. GUN. PLATFORM. SPAM. >by disabling auto ship construction you can place...
this game is so, so good, like worldbox in space, but it is so dead, the last workshop item from 5 months ago, it deserves more attention as its well optimised and very fun
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Galimulator scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/808100/galimulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.