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Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Sid Meier's Civilization® V — Genres, rating & game data

Real-time strategy genre has always been about domination over your opponent, and Civilization in general expanded on the concept. Civilization 5 allows players to pick one of the 43 civilizations available in, including DLCs and the expansions. After that players in single player or multiplayer gam

Sid Meier's Civilization® V is a turn-based strategy game developed by Aspyr Media, 2010. It stands out for tactical combat and a historical setting. Available in single-player and multiplayer mode. With an NextGameLike Score of 91/100, it ranks as an exceptional title in our catalog.

About Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Real-time strategy genre has always been about domination over your opponent, and Civilization in general expanded on the concept. Civilization 5 allows players to pick one of the 43 civilizations available in, including DLCs and the expansions. After that players in single player or multiplayer games will place their first cities, which will act as capital, and begin the race. In order to win, players will have to meet one of the following conditions: - defeating every other existing nation through combat to get Domination Victory; - building and launching a spaceship to get Science victory; - completing the Utopia project by filling out 5 trees of social policies, to get Social Victory; - winning a vote after establishing the United Nations, to get the Diplomatic victory; - getting the highest score at the end of the time period, if no other win condition was reached, to get Time Victory. Every civilization is represented by one of the most influential historical figures and voiced in the language of that nation. Easy to pick up game mechanics of research, foraging, and building, allow the player to immerse themselves into the game atmosphere of continuous development.

How Sid Meier's Civilization® V was received

Of the 209,482 Steam player reviews, 96% are positive. Critics score it 90/100 on Metacritic, reflecting acclaim.

Players

  • Steam players209,482 reviews96%Overwhelmingly positive
  • IGDB community1,142 reviews85/100

Critics

  • Metacritic90/100
  • IGDB5 reviews87/100

Aggregated from public ratings on Steam, IGDB, Metacritic and OpenCritic. NextGameLike does not host its own reviews.

NextGameLike Score

91/100 ↗

Rating

👍 91%

2K votes

Type

Turn-Based Strategy, Simulation

Released

2010

Updated May 2026

Developer

Aspyr Media

Publisher: 2K Games

Avg. playtime

~27h

Platforms

PC, Apple Macintosh, Linux

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