Galactic Civilzations II is the sequel to the best-selling turn-based strategy game, Galactic Civilizations.

The year is 2225. The reckless humans have formed a coalition to defend themselves from the rising power of the evil Drengin Empire.

Meanwhile, the Drengin Empire has gathered together an alliance of their own and has begun searching the darkest places in the galaxy for ancient technologies to give them an upper hand. But as they will all soon learn, there are far worse things in the universe...than each other...