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Sexy Leaders Races

Sexy Leaders Races 🔞

Races for GalCiv III made using the "Sexy Leaders", "New Sexy Leaders", and "New GalCiv3 BG's" files

⭐ 23846,703 dl📜 ContentFactions
Gauntlet's Race Mod

Gauntlet's Race Mod

Additional content for custom races including portraits, logos, backgrounds, and, most importantly,

⭐ 81226,641 dlCustom Races
New GalCiv3 Logos

New GalCiv3 Logos

While making races for GC3, I usually look for a new logo. As I search, I find, crop, and size many

⭐ 29822,836 dlMiscellaneous
New GalCiv3 BG's

New GalCiv3 BG's

Assortment of new backgrounds

⭐ 23121,015 dlMiscellaneous
New Sexy Leaders

New Sexy Leaders 🔞

More Sexy Leaders.

⭐ 12912,940 dlMiscellaneous
Planetary Diversity

Planetary Diversity

Expands upon the variety of planetary types available in game with an append style mod

⭐ 3508,693 dlGameplay
Galactic Diversity Custom Traits

Galactic Diversity Custom Traits

The goal of Galactic Diversity is to expand upon the original custom race traits and provide some in

⭐ 2436,311 dlCustom Races
SaladinTheKind's 100 (plus 12) custom races pack (adult content included)

SaladinTheKind's 100 (plus 12) custom races pack (adult content included) 🔞

This archive contains 100 custom races. I tried to give original thought and design to each and ever

⭐ 1544,731 dlCustom Races
More Anomalies

More Anomalies

The More Anomalies mod does just that, adding multiple new anomalies of all types.

⭐ 2184,432 dlGameplay
Overpowered Racial Ability and Extremely Powerful Starting System Mod

Overpowered Racial Ability and Extremely Powerful Starting System Mod

This mod adds "Overpowered" racial ability that gives you a plethora of bonuses in pretty much every

⭐ 1163,156 dlBalancing
Macs Larger Planets and Genesis Project

Macs Larger Planets and Genesis Project

MOD: Macs Larger Planets Mod v2 MOD TYPE: Planetary Improvement - Larger Planets Genesis Project All

⭐ 1393,109 dlPlanetary Improvements

Insane-abundant balance Mod

the Insane-Abundant Balance mod created to balance the game for larger maps.

— 872,836 dl⚔️ CombatBalancing
GalCiv 3 Ship Design Expansion Pack

GalCiv 3 Ship Design Expansion Pack

Provides around 400 new ship designs to play with as alternatives for the regular ships, as standard

⭐ 1352,791 dlCustom Races
Tech Tree Viewer - Editor

Tech Tree Viewer - Editor

Latest Version 0.1.8.4Small fix for missing Text, TraitsCreate custom Tech trees, modify existing on

— 992,717 dl🛡️ StabilityUtilities
Ginufe's Racial Diversity

Ginufe's Racial Diversity

Adds 17 new unique foregrounds and leader avatars to them for you to choose from!

⭐ 1172,344 dl📜 ContentFactions
Enhanced Terraforming

Enhanced Terraforming

Adds 5 repeatable terraformers, allowing you to terraform the planet eventually completely.

— 942,077 dlPlanetary Improvements
Hereward's Planet Traits

Hereward's Planet Traits

Additional planet traits and slight modifications of stock planet traits. Version 2 introduces Almos

— 922,053 dl⚔️ CombatGameplay
Steam Backgrounds

Steam Backgrounds

100 Steam Backgrounds for use as Leader Backgrounds.

⭐ 1101,936 dl📜 ContentFactions
Mobile Asteroid Processor Module

Mobile Asteroid Processor Module

This mod adds a new module and number of custom ships to the game. The new module provides unlimite

— 901,917 dlGameplay
Hereward's Planet Features

Hereward's Planet Features

Additional planet features and a bug fix.

— 921,819 dl⚔️ CombatGameplay
Dead Planet Colonization Module

Dead Planet Colonization Module

A tier 3 mercenary ability allows for the colonization of dead planets on the map. Added module and

— 831,760 dlGameplay
Mossman's Galactic Civilization 3 Overhaul

Mossman's Galactic Civilization 3 Overhaul

An extensive overhaul of Galactic Civilization 3 for the purpose of balance and internal consistency

— 531,760 dl🔄 OverhaulsBalancing
Glamour Model Factions

Glamour Model Factions 🔞

GC3 factions of glamour models to play as, or against.

— 301,736 dl🎨 GraphicsMiscellaneous
Stellar Diversity

Stellar Diversity

A small mod to add diversity during map creation.

— 941,721 dlStar Diversity
Expanded Cities for GC3 Crusade

Expanded Cities for GC3 Crusade

Provides new city types that give you more granular control over a planet's population.

— 711,635 dlGameplay
More Hull Types

More Hull Types

The original game has 6 different hull types, tiny, small, medium, large, huge and cargo. This Mod i

— 711,556 dlMiscellaneous
Sexy Leader Citizen Portraits - EXP2 Crusade

Sexy Leader Citizen Portraits - EXP2 Crusade 🔞

Citizen Portraits for use in the Sexy Leader Universe of GalCiv III Crusade expansion

— 911,522 dlGameplay
Sexy Leader Minor Races

Sexy Leader Minor Races 🔞

Created to round out the Sexy Leader Universe of currently 59 races, with 39 Sexy Leader Minor races

— 591,434 dl📜 ContentFactions
Hereward's Galactic Modifications

Hereward's Galactic Modifications

A collection of mods that alter the galaxy environment.

— 771,428 dl⚔️ CombatMiscellaneous
SyrkreIcons04.zip

SyrkreIcons04.zip

Multiple sets of logos #101 - 161, #162 - 215, minorFactions (50 icons)

— 421,342 dlLogos
Palette - A Ship Appearance Overhaul

Palette - A Ship Appearance Overhaul

Changes the GradientMap files in GFX to a standardized graphic for use in the original game, and in

— 561,241 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
Sexy Leader Anomalies

Sexy Leader Anomalies

This mod adds a ton of extra Anomalies to GalCiv III

— 541,238 dlGameplay

Crusade Anomalies Mod

This mod is a collection of three mods that add anomalies for greater variety. The Resource Anomali

— 601,174 dlGameplay
Steam Logos

Steam Logos

Steam Emoticons for use as Civilization Logos in packs of 100.

— 541,065 dlLogos
Colonize Dead Planets

Colonize Dead Planets

This mod allow you to colonize Dead Planets.

— 511,059 dlGameplay
Hereward's Star Types

Hereward's Star Types

Star definition types have been modified to reflect real star ratios regarding size and abundance. T

— 701,037 dl⚔️ CombatGameplay
SyrkresIcons01.zip

SyrkresIcons01.zip

A bunch of icons I use, many are custom.

— 391,010 dlLogos
Starfleet Academy

Starfleet Academy

Starfleet Academy planet improvement

— 491,006 dlPlanetary Improvements
Hereward's Spiral Galaxies

Hereward's Spiral Galaxies

Adds three additional spiral galaxy masks to the game. When Spiral Galaxy is selected for a new game

— 48931 dl⚔️ CombatMaps
Full 8-planet SOL system

Full 8-planet SOL system

Full 8-planet SOL system

— 48867 dlMiscellaneous
Peregrine's Battle Behavior Mod

Peregrine's Battle Behavior Mod

Battle behavior is changed for all ship roles in order to add tactical depth.

— 45855 dl⚔️ CombatBalancing
Better Construction Modules

Better Construction Modules

This mods adds five tiers of construction modules that are unlocked through the mining tech tree. Th

— 44845 dlMiscellaneous
Administrator Training Institute for GC3 Crusade

Administrator Training Institute for GC3 Crusade

Adds a colony unique improvement that trains one administrator for a colony.

— 42841 dlGameplay
Prepared Ability

Prepared Ability

Adds "Prepared" civ ability:"Starts with Militarization, Weapons Systems, Defense Systems, and Orbit

— 45786 dl📜 ContentFactions
Star Gate modules for military starbases

Star Gate modules for military starbases

Makes Star Gate military starbase modules available for instant one-way travel to other owned planet

— 32781 dlGameplay
Hereward's Faction Mods

Hereward's Faction Mods

A collection of faction mods that uses my Planet Traits mod for their homeworlds and for one faction

— 40755 dl⚔️ CombatFactions

Resource Mission Mod

This mod adds Shipyard Missions that award resources. The total of 12 new missions are available upo

— 39745 dlGameplay
StarWars and StarTrek Race Content

StarWars and StarTrek Race Content

Some logos, portraits, and backgrounds from Star Wars and Star Trek. All rights reserved by their re

— 0723 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
syrkresFactionImages02.zip

syrkresFactionImages02.zip

A collection of Faction Images for developing factions.

— 42709 dl📜 ContentFactions
Propaganda Center Improvement

Propaganda Center Improvement

This mod eliminates the LEP by way of a simple planetary improvement

— 45703 dlPlanetary Improvements

Star Names Text

Star names for GC3.

— 32696 dlMiscellaneous
Simple Ideology

Simple Ideology

This mod makes ideology cost cheaper. (from 10/20/30... to 10/15/20...)

— 32677 dlGameplay
Ender's Mod Overhaul Pack

Ender's Mod Overhaul Pack

Overall, I overhauled the game to accomplish the following:Remove restrictions on technology that we

— 25641 dl🔄 OverhaulsBalancing
Stellar Coherence

Stellar Coherence

Adds Venus, Uranus and Neptune to Solar system. Also adds a lot more star variations for gameplay an

— 56594 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
GalCiv 2 Mod Items

GalCiv 2 Mod Items

Usable logos, portraits, ect., from Galactic Civilizations 2

— 25589 dlLogos
Custom Home System

Custom Home System

Update 07/04/2022: Added a 2nd custom Home System; A 26 tile Home World and some asteroids. Called T

— 16566 dl📜 ContentCustom Races
Race Trait Improved

Race Trait Improved

Changing racial traits. Racial bonuses now have a tangible impact and are useful.

— 27563 dlBalancing
United federation of planets

United federation of planets

This mod adds United federation of planet faction crossovered with mass effect races. Featuring: Ass

— 31543 dl📜 ContentFactions
Fun Again

Fun Again

Simple but significant changes to make the game fun again. Removes adjacency system, changes one-per

— 31543 dlGameplay
Budroi's Map Pack

Budroi's Map Pack

A small collection of custom maps.

— 20540 dlMaps
SyrkresCivAdminPortraits.zip

SyrkresCivAdminPortraits.zip

Collection of Citizen Portraits which allows you to customize Human civs. Portraits created from EVE

— 30502 dl📜 ContentFactions

Jump Gates 1.0

this mod adds JumpGate Starbases to the game.

— 23487 dlGameplay
Planets Traits-Features-Icons Improvements for Retribution

Planets Traits-Features-Icons Improvements for Retribution

Extra Extreme planets, more icons and some traits/features balancing

— 28481 dlGameplay
Bluestar Tech and Stuff

Bluestar Tech and Stuff

Requires Crusades.Not greatly balanced but its something that I made for myself and decided to let o

— 23475 dlGameplay
MinorFactionImages.zip

MinorFactionImages.zip

A collection of images for Minor Factions (Foregrounds and Logos - 99 images of each). Random Minor

— 26467 dl📜 ContentFactions
Colony Capital Relocation

Colony Capital Relocation

Allows to destroy colony capitals and rebuild them elsewhere on the planet. Still does not allow to

— 26460 dlPlanetary Improvements
TechCostModifier

TechCostModifier

Adjust tech costs for a longer (or shorter) research game. No modding experience needed. No need to

— 20456 dlGameplay
SyrkresIcons02.zip

SyrkresIcons02.zip

50 new logos - more evil in nature

— 27446 dlLogos
Population Rebalance

Population Rebalance

Rebalance the game around the new lowered population count

— 25436 dl⚔️ CombatBalancing
Wonderful Galaxy

Wonderful Galaxy

Changes one-per-galaxy buildings to one-per-player.

— 24435 dlGameplay
MercRoleMod

MercRoleMod

Fixes many of the combat roles mercenary ships have to make them more useful.

— 31416 dlBalancing
Artifacts tweaks for Retribution

Artifacts tweaks for Retribution

Artifacts tweaks

— 26416 dlGameplay
Removable Buildings

Removable Buildings

Allows you to remove most buildings.

— 12413 dl🖥️ UIPlanetary Improvements
Shipyard Missions upgrade for Retribution

Shipyard Missions upgrade for Retribution

Shipyard Missions upgrade

— 24410 dlGameplay
Official Sounding Star Names

Official Sounding Star Names

Provides "realistic" sounding star names for the entire 3,790 possible names that shipped with Galac

— 28407 dl🎵 AudioGameplay
Carrier Fighter Tweaks

Carrier Fighter Tweaks

My attempt to "fix" carriers. Fighters will load weapons appropriate to what weapons you've research

— 18406 dl⚔️ CombatGameplay
Guardian of Orion - MoO mini-mod

Guardian of Orion - MoO mini-mod

Adds a non-playable race long time gone called the Orionites. Their abandoned homeworld of Orion has

— 12394 dl📜 ContentFactions
Reasonably More Exp Gain from Combat

Reasonably More Exp Gain from Combat

Speed up you (and your opponent)'s Exp gain from combat by giving exp bonus from beating "Experience

— 25383 dl⚔️ CombatBalancing
Hereward's Star Map No Nebula

Hereward's Star Map No Nebula

Star Map No Nebula Mod removes the nebula from the star map background.

— 27373 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
Commander Mod for Gal Civ 3 Crusades

Commander Mod for Gal Civ 3 Crusades

A mod that changes how the basic command ship works as we'll as completely changing the Martyr upgra

— 28357 dlGameplay
General Pants' Return of the Immense Map

General Pants' Return of the Immense Map

This mode brings back the old 'immense' map, without doing away with the 'ludicrous' map. Basically,

— 21349 dlMaps
Events Improvements and Fixes for Full Game

Events Improvements and Fixes for Full Game

Attempt to balance, fix, make worth wile in game events of all kind (colonization, early events, meg

— 21315 dl🛡️ StabilityGameplay
New Republic

New Republic

Formerly an industrialist movement founded on Wisp, the New Republic seceded from the Altarian Repub

— 15314 dl📜 ContentFactions
Asterit Crystals

Asterit Crystals

Asterit crystals have learned to master hypnotic powers to force any species passing through their s

— 14311 dl📜 ContentFactions
Ship Animation Speed

Ship Animation Speed

Accelerates the movement speed of ships by 2 times.

— 16310 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
Hereward's Star Map Reduced Nebula

Hereward's Star Map Reduced Nebula

Star Map Reduced Nebula Mod reduces the nebula in the star map background.

— 16308 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
General Pants' Scientific Accuracy Mod I Stars

General Pants' Scientific Accuracy Mod I Stars

Substitutes true RGB colors, proportional sizes and intensities for stars. Also enables multiple new

— 25307 dlStar Diversity
Fast Commanders

Fast Commanders

Increased speed and range of commanders.

— 18306 dlBalancing
GalCiv3 TechFix - Vanilla

GalCiv3 TechFix - Vanilla

Vanilla game files

— 6303 dl🛡️ StabilityBalancing
Dominion of the Korx

Dominion of the Korx

Adds the Korx race of previous Galactic Civilizations games as a playable faction with their Korx sh

— 17297 dlCustom Races
My Milky Way

My Milky Way

Basically... our Milky Way for Galactic Civilizations III!

— 14295 dlMaps
Government rework (with delayed WAR version) for Retribution

Government rework (with delayed WAR version) for Retribution

Government rework, with delayed WAR version

— 13293 dl⚔️ CombatGameplay

Better Galaxy Mod

A mod to change star and planet diversity and density, plus racial traits changed

— 17282 dlBalancing
DD's Civs

DD's Civs

Adds two new human civilizations to the game: Star Federation and War Clan. These are added via the

— 18281 dl📜 ContentFactions
Ideology Cost

Ideology Cost

Updated Simple Ideology mod for the current version of DLS Retribution.

— 8281 dlBalancing
Hereward's Pharaonic Malignity Faction

Hereward's Pharaonic Malignity Faction

Having heavily polluted their homeworld with the consumption of hydrocarbon fuels the Pharaonic Mali

— 11275 dl⚔️ CombatFactions
Farming Freedom

Farming Freedom

Removes the prerequisite for Arable Land from Farms.

— 10274 dlGameplay
Hereward's Rwaddi Shrewdness Faction

Hereward's Rwaddi Shrewdness Faction

The Rwaddi Shrewdness are a race of arboreal primates more at home on their jungle world of Juelow t

— 15272 dl⚔️ CombatFactions
Reasonably More Exp Reward

Reasonably More Exp Reward

Updating the mod for the current version (these files infrequently required updating). Requires DLS

— 13263 dl⚔️ CombatBalancing
Hereward's Stratus Urbanites Faction

Hereward's Stratus Urbanites Faction

The Stratus Urbanites are a peaceful race relying on tourism and trade. They have fully utilized sci

— 11257 dl⚔️ CombatFactions
Traditional Farming for Retribution

Traditional Farming for Retribution

Traditional farming/arable land construction for Retribution

— 10256 dlGameplay
GC3 Logos

GC3 Logos

A small collection of logos for GC3.

— 16251 dlLogos
Expanded Human Citizen Names

Expanded Human Citizen Names

Expands the possible combinations of human names for Citizens (Crusades Expansion) and "Word on the

— 11247 dlGameplay
Cybran Race Animation

Cybran Race Animation

— 20239 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
Hereward's Naeb Aggregation Faction

Hereward's Naeb Aggregation Faction

The Naeb Aggregation are a peaceful aquatic race driven by the necessity to adapt and colonise other

— 12220 dl⚔️ CombatFactions

Tactical Combat Re-balance

Re-balances ship weapon and defense modules based physics concepts and starbases based on large asse

— 15219 dl⚔️ CombatBalancing
Simple Custom Race Animation

Simple Custom Race Animation

Monolore Synthesis

— 15208 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
Simple Custom Race Animation - 2

Simple Custom Race Animation - 2

Noss Directive Leader

— 13181 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals
MyMilkyWayGalaxyMod

MyMilkyWayGalaxyMod

This mod is designed to create an immersive experience for the player, it adds some graphic assets,

— 9172 dlMiscellaneous

OneDot3NearlyUsable - Less Suck Governors

a fast pass through GovernorBonusDefs.xml to grant them earlier & make them actually useful for huma

— 9165 dlMiscellaneous
Normal Trade

Normal Trade

Removes the increase in the cost of trading with AI on high difficulties.

— 7165 dlBalancing
Sid Meier's Galactic Civilization III

Sid Meier's Galactic Civilization III

What happened following the colonization of the Alpha Centauri system...

— 9164 dlMiscellaneous
Population to Raw Production at -.75 exponent

Population to Raw Production at -.75 exponent

Crusade removes the need for this, as the modifier is now 1.0. Increase Raw production effect from p

— 8161 dlGameplay
Federation Ship Pack

Federation Ship Pack

A pack of over 60 ship templates from Star Trek for your custom United Federation of Planets faction

— 4155 dlCustom Races

ILO Insane - loose clusters - occasional

overhaul of the tech tree and some starbase/shipyard stuff to accommodate insane, loose clusters, wi

— 9152 dlBalancing
Named Bayer Stars Only

Named Bayer Stars Only

Provides actual "real" names for 2,170 stars in Galactic Civilizations III

— 14143 dlGameplay
SyrkresIcons03PirateNation

SyrkresIcons03PirateNation

Collection of Pirate Nation Icons for Galactic Civ II (or other games).

— 12128 dlLogos
Battle Viewer Mod

Battle Viewer Mod

Removes damage values, "Deflected", and "Missed" text popups from the battle viewer.

— 8128 dl⚔️ CombatGameplay

Focus Mod

A small mod that makes 4 changes: All focuses set to 100% Colony hubs give social manufacturing inst

— 1126 dlGameplay
DH13 Logos for GC3

DH13 Logos for GC3

New custom race logos created with the amariah graphic design software

— 9126 dlLogos
Alert System Improvement for Retribution

Alert System Improvement for Retribution

Alert system upgrade

— 9105 dlGameplay
No Mercenaries

No Mercenaries

This removes mercenaries while still allowing the Mercenaries DLC.

— 992 dlGameplay
Red Earth Mod

Red Earth Mod

Note: haven't updated but if anyone wants to use this tell me and I will.Tweeks I've made including:

— 588 dlBalancing

Marigoldran AI mod

A small mod that makes the expansionist AI play as Marigoldran for the opening 50 turns. It just chu

— 064 dlAI
Thulium Blue

Thulium Blue

Changes thulium deposit color on main map from dull blue green to bright blue.

— 164 dl🎨 GraphicsVisuals

YorSchism

The Yor have experienced a with a schism and gone in different directions that disagree on how they

— 558 dl📜 ContentFactions
Bigger Nebulae

Bigger Nebulae

The vanilla game has these tiny nebulae which don't really present much of an obstacle, especially w

— 051 dlMiscellaneous
Breen_vs_Xindi_300.zip

Breen_vs_Xindi_300.zip

A GC3 save game, around 300 turns in.

— 022 dlMiscellaneous
Ender's modpack revised

Ender's modpack revised

Planned translation of Ender's Mod Overhaul Pack. But during playthrough I decide to change few game

— 06 dlGameplay
Ship Component - world flipper

Ship Component - world flipper

This is a wingame-command level cheat. Worth playing, once, when you are in the mood to rampage thro

— 00 dlGameplay

How to Install Galactic Civilizations III Mods

How do I get started with Galactic Civilizations III mods?

Install via a mod manager (Vortex or Mod Organizer 2). Most mods drop into the game folder.

Are Galactic Civilizations III mods free?

Yes. All mods listed here are free downloads. We link to the official pages.

What are the best Galactic Civilizations III mods for beginners?

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