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title: "Race for the Galaxy - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "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. Pl"
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# Race for the Galaxy — United States

![Race for the Galaxy App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/ed/8e/6c/ed8e6ccf-63dd-cbf1-77b6-3d88a3e55ab5/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-85-220-6.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Temple Gates Games](https://apptail.io/developer/temple-gates-games-nNHb)
**Category:** Games
**Rating:** 4.1/5 (178 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.templegatesgames.raceios
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.09.2 (released 2018-10-21)
**Original Release:** 2017-05-06
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1190675052)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/race-for-the-galaxy-QSNc/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/race-for-the-galaxy-QSNc/united-states)

## Race for the Galaxy Description
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 immediately

## Race for the Galaxy Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/1a/9c/9e/1a9c9eb5-7354-0d4e-fb1c-7cc67b581ac1/pr_source.png/2732x2048.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/d1/75/5c/d1755ca8-6397-7c0b-5bf2-30ce40236cf4/mzl.sfwniwcg.png/2732x2048.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/92/1a/90/921a90a6-5557-bc4d-3a7b-4f4de2385e78/mzl.danbxlun.png/2732x2048.png)

## Race for the Galaxy Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 109 (61%)
- 4 stars: 25 (14%)
- 3 stars: 19 (11%)
- 2 stars: 10 (6%)
- 1 stars: 15 (8%)

## Race for the Galaxy Reviews in United States

### ***-- "Purchased extra decks but the extra cards never showed up"
Love this game but after purchasing the expansion packs none of the expansion cards have shown up.
-- Tough on self, 2025-02-08

### ***-- "Great for your tablet but not for your phone"
Great game. Just got all the expansions and it works great. My favorite expansion is Gathering Storm. It kinda has a terraforming mars vibe with the goals needing accomplished. However, while it’s good for the iPad or tablet, it’s not good for the phone vision-wise. On my phone I can hardly see the cards and would have to press and hold the card to see what it is before playing it. If there’s a way to fix that, that would be great. Otherwise, great game
-- diggity 2.0, 2025-01-14

### ***** "Insanely great!"
I accidentally found this game. At first, it is into,idating. Nothing really made sense. Then, after struggling a few times, I reread the instructions and had a better understanding of what was being referred to, etc. Now, I cannot stop playing it. It’s fast, incredibly robust, and requires thinking on your feat. The variation in strategy and need to adjust mid game makes this game particularly fun. I never played or owned the analog card game, but may buy it just because of this app. Well done. Awesome!
-- IanMule, 2024-12-31

### ****- "AI cheats on hard mode"
No other explanation.  The AI Hard player ALWAYS uses the same strategy (production), never military or any other path to victory.  After ten games vs three AI players (two medium, one hard), the hard AI has won every time.  My point is that you don’t win every game using the production strategy (duh, that’s why there are other strategies)… UNLESS you cheat.  How?  By dealing itself the cards from the deck that it needs for the first four or five turns, then cycling produce/consume 2x for the rest of the game.  The AI is beatable at the easy or medium levels, but if you’re planning on playing vs the AI to improve your game, you’re wasting your time.
-- Nagred, 2024-03-08

### ***-- "Temple can you remake this Game?"
Temple.. 

you designed and developed an elegant UX, UI and tutorial for Dominion. 

Literally.. in Dominion, you provided a tutorial ‘chunk’ for every phase and every aspect. Even throwing in a bit of strategy of what cards to buy from the piles, and how those cards create synergy with each other. 

You even went as far as creating a tutorial for each expansion (even if you don’t own the expansion) you can still play it’s tutorial showing the new mechanics of the expansion cards.

You also have a section where we can view ALL of the cards in the game (which helps a lot)
 

Why don’t you do all of the above - for this 💎 of game? At the moment the UX, UI, Tutorial for RftG is bad, very bad diminishes the quality and the per of this game.  I mean look at the reviews of this one, compared to its dice roll counter part. 

TEMPLE,
I’ll gladly buy a brand new version of RftG running on that Dominion card game engine.  Highly consider redoing this one.
-- Lost in Tactics, 2024-03-05

### **--- "Ai strategy"
The Ai opponent only has two strategies, spamming vps starting turn three, if you’re trying to do a non vp build, or racing you with military if you’re trying to do a vp build. There’s no diversity in play, and I, a long time vet of RFTG have difficulty beating the hard ai setting. The game works just fine and I haven't encountered any bugs. Online play is the only way to go unfortunately
-- DatDude7575, 2023-12-21

### ***** "Enjoyable and available"
I enjoy this implementation of Race for the Galaxy and I'm thankful to Temple Gates Games for making it available and continuing to keep it up and running.

Allowing for 5 and 6 player games would be nice, but ultimately not practical probably.

Either my memory is not accurate, or there are some additional cards added in which I are not in the Gathering Storm, Rebel versus Imperium or Brink of War expansions but which do appear in this implementation. Perhaps those cards are part of the Alien Artifacts expansion?
-- Plipsy McGonigel, 2023-12-21

### ****- "Love it, but"
Just like the actual game, it’s only as good as the players you play against.  That being said, please fix the “hard” AI players. All they do is consume/trade, or produce.  
It’s just not fun anymore when you know what the AI is going to do every game. There needs to be an auto code break, after 2 turns of every one picking the same actions, it does a random or secondary action
-- WFUnDina, 2023-07-06

### **--- "Not very good"
Fairly high learning curve on a fairly boring game. If you aren’t already familiar with how to play definitely pass this- lots of better options. Regret purchasing. The interface is good, the game less so.
-- hddgybdyujh, 2023-03-09

### ****- "Terrific but Frequent Crashes"
The title says it all. This is a stellar (pun included) translation of the card game to app form. The only knock against the app is that it crashes every 10 to 15, maybe due to memory leaks? Frustrating when that happens, but the game’s so good that I still play it every day, logging thousands of plays despite hundreds of crashes.
-- Jongolod, 2022-03-14

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## Race for the Galaxy In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| The Brink of War | $3.99 |
| Rebel vs Imperium | $3.99 |
| The Gathering Storm | $3.99 |

## Race for the Galaxy Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Finland | Games | #113 |
| Top Paid | Poland | Games | #228 |
| Top Paid | Taiwan | Games | #328 |
| Top Paid | United States | Games | #468 |

## Race for the Galaxy Discovered Keywords
- race for the galaxy


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