Colony management: hex district grid, governor, and planetary outputs

Galactic Civilizations IV · Planet / City Detail

Art style Realistic 3D

Galactic Civilizations IV - Colony management: hex district grid, governor, and planetary outputs

About this game

Developer: Stardock Entertainment · Publisher: Stardock Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Planet / City Detail

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What to study

A colony is managed as a hex district board laid over the planet itself: each tile carries a terrain type and a build icon, and the player is prompted to "choose a region to improve" with a District. The left rail is the colony's ledger (governor portrait and name, status report percentages, planetary input icons, and output rows for manufacturing, research, income, food and influence with pip counts), while the right rail holds the shipyard and draggable improvements, with a tooltip explaining the Colonial Generator's adjacency bonuses. Trailer caption 'WORLDS FOR YOU TO COLONIZE' is burned across the lower third, over the planet and the bottom of the district grid; the tooltip covers part of the grid. Frame at 0:22 in September 2023 Gameplay Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel stat-panel grid-overlay detail-panel top-bar resource-readout

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Portrait Resource bar

Screen inventory

  • hex district grid over the planet
  • governor portrait and name (Samantha Eiggen)
  • status report percentages
  • planetary input icon row
  • planetary output rows (manufacturing, research, income, food, influence)
  • citizens row with next-citizen timer
  • improvement tooltip (Colonial Generator)
  • shipyard panel with Build Shipyard button
  • improvements drag row
  • build queue badge
  • Done button

Top 3 colors

#0a131e 21%#132130 21%#040a11 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Stardock Entertainment, Galactic Civilizations IV screenshot: Steam store movie (September 2023 Gameplay Trailer), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Stardock Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: dense-scan frame (1 frame per 2 seconds) inspected visually at full resolution; settled, legible, genuine gameplay UI confirmed

no published Stardock fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-06 via web search; the StardockGames.com Terms of Use is a platform EULA for personal non-commercial use, not a fan-content or video-reuse policy); free study/commentary use, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honored within 48h

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.

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