Galactic Civilizations III
Give it 35 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (65%); after 35h it's 1 in 7 (13%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 93% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 78% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 10,424 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 87.8h for positive, 27.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (78.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (102)
story milestone ending side
- Our New Home Colonize your first planet 100%
- Warrior Win a Battle 85%
- Aliens?!?! Meet your first Race in Galactic Civilizations III 78%
- Greedy Collect 15 Anomalies in a game 66%
- New Recruit Play for 5 hours across all games 63%
- Danger Zone Survey an anomaly in a dust cloud or nebula 59%
- Boldly Go Use a Worm Hole 53%
- Flying in Style Create your first ship design 48%
- All Your Base Destroy an Enemy Faction 43%
- Recruiter Train your first Citizen. 39%
- Ships to Scrap Destroy more than 15 enemy ships in a battle 37%
- For Arcea Start the campaign 33%
- Micro-Manager Change your tax slider for one turn 27%
- Worlds to Rule Own 30 planets 22%
- King Maker Unleash a custom Civilization on the Galaxy. 18%
- Friends, for now... Ally with first other major faction 16%
- Precursor Legacy Control all Relics on the map 14%
- Human Resources Promote your first Specialist. 13%
- Crush the Resistance Conquer a planet defended by enemy Legions. 12%
- Together We Stand Form a government 12%
- Feeling Powerful, eh? Use an Artifact Power 12%
- Merchant Empire Have 12 or more Trade Routes 11%
- Space Emperor Play for 100 hours across all games 11%
- Hyper Hyper Hyper Build a hypergate 10%
- Backup Plan Complete the Crusade Tutorial. 9.9%
- They Really Love You Win an Election 9.7%
- I Assume You Were Talking Back Declare war before you have Universal Translator 9.1%
- Hyperdiculous Speed Build a hyperlane 9.0%
- Regime Change Change your government type 8.8%
- Built From Nothing Win as a Custom Faction 8.3%
- From Earth to Distant Stars Win as the Terran 8.3%
- They Want To Be Us Win by Cultural Influence 8.1%
- Troublemaker Be at war with 5 different factions at the same time 7.8%
- Conquerer Win by Conquest 7.6%
- Trial by Fire Successfully complete a Crisis 7.4%
- They Really REALLY Love You Win an Election with a landslide majority 6.5%
- Pirate Scum! Destroy more than 7 Pirate bases 6.4%
- Under Pressure Win a game in under 200 turns 6.4%
- We Care For The Least of Us Unlock all the Benevolent ideology traits 6.0%
- No More Secrets Technology Victory 5.9%
- There is a crusade coming Win the campaign 5.8%
- Crisis: Space Monster Complete "Space Monster" Crisis 5.6%
- Tax the wealthy (and everyone else) Raise your taxes to 100% for one turn 5.5%
- Means To An End Unlock all the Malevolent ideology traits 5.5%
- Results Outweigh Ideals Unlock all the Pragmatic ideology traits 5.5%
- A Universe Without Enemies Win by Diplomacy 5.5%
- Crisis: Brain Parasites Complete "Brain Parasites" Crisis 5.2%
- Two-Bit Buyer Buy at least one resource on the marketplace 5.0%
- Spy Master Place a spy on a foreign colony. 4.4%
- Crisis: The Revolution Complete "The Revolution" Crisis 4.4%
- Small-Time Seller Sell at least one resource on the marketplace 4.2%
- Cool Head(s) Assign a Crisis manager 4.0%
- Beyond This Universe Ascension victory 4.0%
- Crisis: Brain Trust Complete "Brain Trust" Crisis 3.8%
- Trickle-Down Economics Lower your taxes to 0% for one turn 3.7%
- Planetary Patron Buy at least 10 resources at once 3.5%
- Enlightenment Attained Win as the Altarian 3.3%
- They Grow Up So Fast Create a commonwealth 3.2%
- Stellar Seller Sell at least 10 resources at once 3.2%
- Crisis: Apophis Complete "Apophis" Crisis 2.9%
- Master Merchant Buy at least 30 resources at once 2.7%
- Crisis: Secession Complete "Secession" Crisis 2.6%
- Crisis: The Simulation Complete "The Simulation" Crisis 2.4%
- Revenge Recapture your homeworld 2.4%
- World Without Flesh Win as the Yor 2.4%
- Astral Agent Sell at least 30 resources at once 2.3%
- Trying to Prove Something Win on an Insane sized map 2.3%
- Fulfilling the Prophecy Complete the Altarian Prophecy Campaign 1.9%
- Crisis: Rogue General Complete "Rogue General" Crisis 1.9%
- Power Hungry Use 20 Artifact Powers in a single game 1.9%
- Whatever happened to those Xendar? Complete the Rise of the Terrans campaign 1.8%
- Drengin Supremacy Win as the Drengin 1.8%
- From the Shadows Win as the Iconian 1.8%
- Market Leader Win as the Iridium 1.4%
- Eco-Unfriendly Use Core Detonation invasion 10 times in one game 1.3%
- There Is Only The Way Win as the Krynn 1.3%
- Another Dimension Ruled Win as the Thalan 1.3%
- Join the Resistance Win Game playing the Terran Resistance. 1.2%
- Exterminate Destroy the Iconian faction, as the Yor 1.2%
- Honorary Stardockian Play for 1000 Hours 1.2%
- Vengence As the Iconians, take back Iconia (Yor's starting homeworld) from the Yor 1.2%
- Crusher of Souls Win in Multiplayer 1.2%
- A Little Help From My Frenemies Complete the Mercenaries campaign 1.0%
- The Return of the True Face of Fear Complete the Snathi Campaign 1.0%
- Out of the Deep and to the Stars Win as Torians 0.9%
- Vigilant Victory Win as Arceans 0.8%
- Rock Eater Win Game playing the Onyx Hive. 0.6%
- Gloriously Gelatinous Win Game playing the Slyne. 0.6%
- Sticks and Stones Win the Retribution campaign 0.6%
- You're a Bad Person Use the spore weapon 0.6%
- No Limits Build 20 hyperlanes in a single game 0.6%
- Revenge is Ours Win as Snathi 0.6%
- Space Dragons! Win as Drath 0.5%
- Overminds meet your Overlords Win as Free Trandals 0.4%
- Shadow Masters Win as Korath 0.4%
- Thanks be to Jeff Win as Mowlings 0.4%
- Squik! Win as the Mu'Kay 0.4%
- So Sweaty to Beat You Win as the Tywom 0.4%
- Glorious Paperwork Win as Measured 0.3%
- Served for dinner Win as Phamysht 0.3%
- Imperial March Win as Scryve 0.3%
- One more dimension conquered ... Win as Xraki 0.3%