
The civilization phase will have gameplay similar to SimCity or Risk, and players will be responsible for managing a city of their creatures. Players can edit the appearances of buildings, vehicles, ships, aircraft, and submersibles. Meanwhile, the game will attempt to adjust to the player's style accordingly, offering similar downloadable content to what the player has already chosen.
The player view changes in this phase to let you view the entire planet so that you may eventually take over the entire thing. Civilizations now trade in Spice and once they have accumulated enough, they can advance into space travel.