The game features include three various types of offense-defense combination such as Beam Weapons and Shielding, Missiles and Point Defense, Mass Drivers, and Armor.
In the game, you can explore the entire game world to locate Artifacts, defeat aliens, and create your colonies. The game takes place in the 23rd century in the future, when multiple aliens civilizations try to take hold of the whole galaxy, planet by planet, by the use of force, diplomacy, influence, or technology. Galactic Civilization II: Dread Lords is an Action-Adventure, Strategy, Science-fiction, Futuristic, Sandbox, Turn-based, Space, and Single-player video game developed and published by Stardock Entertainment.