Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Buy96%

Overwhelmingly Positive · 211k player reviews · High confidence

Yes, worth buying.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Firaxis Games · Turn-Based Strategy · Sep 21, 2010

Player review score
96%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Price
$7.49−75%
Lowest ever
Playing right now
All-time peak
15,008
concurrent players
#100 by players on Steam
Achievements
286
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
10
Full audio5 of 10
Subtitles10 of 10

Should I buy Sid Meier's Civilization® V?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 49 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 21 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 14 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 16 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 3 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 211k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise25% are divided25% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
49 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Fun gameplay, multiplayer is fun, only issue is sometimes the game crashes while playing multiplayer.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
21 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It’s packed with features, subsystems, and flashy visuals, but it lost the soul that made Civ 5 so endlessly replayable.
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
14 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The CPU's are solid (except for you Gandhi), multiplayer with friends is just an all time blast.
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
12 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Unique gameplay and unlimited fun with your friends, at least if they as boring as mine
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The move to a hexagonal grid and the "one unit per tile" rule turned combat into a brilliant, tactical game of chess where terrain actually matters.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
5 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Throw in a stunning, mature aesthetic, a legendary orchestral soundtrack, and a flawless late-game Ideology system, and you have a masterpiece that simply refuses to age.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay49 reviews
Graphics21 reviews
Multiplayer14 reviews
Co-op12 reviews
Combat9 reviews
Audio5 reviews
Divided opinion
Interface
100% still recommend
Linux compatibility
50% still recommend
Story
100% still recommend
Players complain
Difficulty
94% still recommend
Crashes
60% still recommend
Bugs
100% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Multi-player
  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Remote Play on Tablet
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded
$7.49$29.99−75%

That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

9 points recordedtoday · $7.49

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