Galactic Dominion

Galactic Dominion is a fast-paced 4X space strategy game. You explore the stars, research new technologies, manage colonies, build fleets, defend your systems and seek to conquer the galaxy. You can play a story-driven campaign or customize games in Free Play, and choose between real-time and turn-based play.

The campaign

The campaign follows the dawning of a new age for humanity. In the distant future, humans have begun colonizing deep space, and you play as the heir of the Human dominion, tasked with exploring the frontiers. Its chapters each have unique objectives, as you encounter mysteries, hostile aliens and other dangers in a newly generated galaxy.

Colony management and combat

You queue industries to increase production and ships to expand your fleets. Research unlocks topics that can shift the balance of power, while the ship designer lets you research and customize weapon hardpoints. Space combat revolves around controlling key choke points; to conquer star systems, you send in troops.

AI governors can manage your empire, while speed controls let you fast-forward or slow down play. You can also change the visual style of the game, and a tutorial introduces its controls.

Free Play

Free Play lets you configure games to suit your preferred play style, from a 20-minute speedrun to a marathon lasting a few hours. Each game takes place in a randomized galaxy. You can set:

• Galaxy size and star count: Choose the galaxy's size, the distance between stars and their density.
• Empire race: Play as Humans, Machines, Etherials, Monsters or a random race. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
• Opponents: Set the number of enemy empires and customize each opponent's race and aggression. Aggression determines how early the AI creates attack fleets.
• Difficulty modifier: Apply additional bonuses to the player on Simple and Easy, to enemy AI on Hard and Impossible, or no bonuses on Normal.
• Total War: Enable the declaration of Total War, which mobilizes your entire empire for the war effort and provides an optional end-game crisis for a final showdown with your opponents.
• Star Lanes: Connect all stars with lanes to form a galactic network.
• Research times: Extend research for a longer playthrough.
• Game mode: Choose real-time or turn-based play; the experience changes substantially between them.