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Galactic Dominion

Galactic Dominion is a fast paced 4x space strategy game. Explore the stars, perform research, manage your colonies, build a fleet, defend your systems, and conquer the galaxy. Play through an epic story driven campaign or alternatively customize your games for countless re-playability!

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September 6, 2018
7 years and 331 days ago
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About the Game

Galactic Dominion is a fast paced 4x space strategy game. Explore the stars, perform research, manage your colonies, build a fleet, defend your systems, and conquer the galaxy. Play through an epic story driven campaign or alternatively customize your games for countless re-playability!

Features

  • Campaign: Play through a series of chapters each with its own unique objectives.
  • Free Play: Customize each game to your liking, opponents, difficulty, and many more.
  • Fast Paced: Ensures your always on the edge of your seat.
  • Manage Colonies: Queue Industries to increase production and Ships to build up your Fleets.
  • Research: Unlock meaningful topics that changes the balance of power.
  • Combat: In space by controlling key choke points and conquer Star systems by sending in troops.
  • Real-Time or Turn-Based: Play in the style you prefer.
  • Randomized Galaxy: Ensures a different game each time.
  • Total War: Enable an optional end-game crisis for a final showdown with your opponents.
  • AI Governors: Sit back and watch the galaxy unfold itself.
  • Ship Designer: Research and customize your own weapon hardpoints on your ships.
  • Speed Controls: If it ain't fast enough, you can play in fast-forward (or slow-down if it's too fast).
  • Style: Change the visual style of the entire game and entire a whole new galaxy.
  • Music: Enjoy the thematic music that will give you a feeling of nostalgia.
  • Tutorial: Available to help you learn the game's unique controls.

Campaign

The Campaign consists a series of chapters detailing the dawning of a new age for the Human race. In the distant future, Humans have begun their colonization of deep space. You play as the heir of the Human dominion tasked with the exploration of the frontiers of space. What mysteries lie out here? What hostile aliens and dangers await? Only time will tell...

Each chapter comes with unique objectives that brings something new to the experience and every playthrough will be different with a newly generated galaxy.

Free Play

In Free Play mode you can customize your games to match your play style. Whether is an intensive 20 minute speedrun or an epic marathon of a few hours. Each game will be different.

  • Galaxy Size: Larger galaxies allows more Stars as well as distance between them.
  • Number of Stars: Determines the Star density of the Galaxy.
  • Empire Race: Choose between Humans, Machines, Etherials, Monsters, or Random. Each race has its own strengths and weaknesses.
  • Opponents: Specify the number of enemy opponents to play against. The Aggression and Empire Race of each component can be customized.
  • Aggression: Determines the aggression of the enemy. The higher the aggression the earlier the AI will create attack Fleets.
  • Difficulty Modifier: Determines the additional bonuses applied either to the Player (Simple and Easy), to the enemy AI (Hard and Impossible), or none at all (Normal).
  • Total War: Enable to allow the declaration of Total War which mobilizes your entire empire to focus on the war effort.
  • Star Lanes: When enabled all the Stars will be connected by Star Lanes to form the galactic network.
  • Research: Play with extended research times for a longer play through.
  • Real Time Mode / Turn-Based Mode: Toggle between Real-Time or Turn-Based. The game experience will change drastically between the two modes.