Race for the Galaxy

In-app purchases
4.3
1.11K reviews
10K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

Race for the Galaxy is a strategy boardgame where players advance their empire by playing cards to build technological developments or to settle planets. Its core mechanic is a phase choosing game. Players secretly and simultaneously determine which one of seven phases they will lock in, all reveal at once, then execute the phases in order. Will you build an engine to ramp up VP generation on cheapo production planets? Will you invest in exploration and settle rare and valuable VP rich planets? Or will you rush a military conquest to cut off your opponents before they have a chance to develop their strategy.

Game Features

▪ 2 – 4 player with network multiplayer
▪ Single player mode with advanced neural network AI
▪ Five starting worlds and ninety settlement and development cards
▪ Free promo pack included: New Worlds with six additional starting planets
▪ Gathering Storm and Rebel Vs. Imperium expansions available for purchase
Updated on
8 Nov 2022

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Ratings and reviews

4.3
943 reviews
Jason Power
29 June 2025
Unsure how but push notifications have resumed on the app, so I'm updating the review. Great app! Original: Excellent app for the game with a couple bugs, but this has been in constant use for friendly multiplayer games for ages. Sometime in the last couple months push notifications for multiplayer have completely stopped, seemingly out of nowhere. I have scoured the app notification settings and reinstalled the app to no avail. Unfortunate because the game and app are otherwise both so good!
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A Google user
20 August 2019
I love this game, and the app is even better than the physical version. It's nearly perfect. all it's missing would be a few more options for multiplayer time limits. You can do 30 minutes, one week, or four weeks. 30 minutes is often too short, but a week is much too long! Why no option for one hour, or 24 hours? Two days? We need more options in between.
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Y.
1 May 2020
This is really a rather nice port of RftG when you want to play a few rounds but don't want to bother getting a group together (even online). Deducted a star for the following: -No 4th/5th expansions (the description fails to mention you can buy Brink of War) -The lack of support for 2 years -I wish the game had widescreen -The AI can be slow sometimes (but that's fine, really) If you are okay with getting a premium subscription, BoardGameArena's adaptation of the game is way more complete.
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What's new

Fixed bugs with keyboard input.
Update to support 64 bit only phones.
Update to support more phone resolutions.
Fixed bugs with notifications on Android 13.