Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.

Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete is a strategy, turn-based strategy and turn-based game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
Released on October 25th 2006 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 7,142 reviews of which 6,404 were positive and 738 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete into these genres:

Strategy Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based Classic 4X Historical Singleplayer Multiplayer Replay Value Simulation Grand Strategy Military Exploration Addictive City Builder Old School War Isometric Diplomacy Alternate History

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Windows

Recommended: Windows® 2000/XP (only), Pentium® II 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 1.7 GB Free HDD space, Windows® 2000/XP compatible video card*, Windows® 2000/XP compatible sound card*, DirectX® version 9.0b (included) or higher
* Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX® version 9.0b or higher.

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

It's just like I remember it. There are some things you need to fix before playing this game, sadly. Resolution is wrong for modern systems. 1. Browse the game local files. 2. Find the folder Conquests and open it. 3. Find the file named conquest.ini and open it with notepad. 4. Add KeepRes=1 at the bottom of the file and save. 5. Start the game and enjoy normal resolution Into movie is kinda broken. 1. Find the file named conquest.ini from before and open it with notepad. 2. Add PlayIntro=0 at the bottom of the file and save. 3. Start the game. Now the Intro won't be playing. When you open diplomacy, there is a sound bug. 1. Go to https://www.indirectsound.com/ 2. Download the file and browse the game local files. 3. Find the folder Conquests and open it. 4. Extract the dsound.ini and dsound.dll into the Conquests folder. 5. Start the game and the sound bug is now fixed. Enjoy the full experience with this old great classic game on modern systems.

Feb. 2025

People call civ 4 the ultimate classic civ, but honestly, civ 4 is more of a weird inbetween than it is a true classic game (which IS why it's the best one) This however, is probably the best true classic civ game. CIV 1 and 2 are really fucking old and dont really even run on modern systems, and their UI is nightmarishly old. this game was the first one to have a functional UI, and somehow, is still better than civ 7's on launch despite being from 2001. it's also extremely moddable.

Jan. 2025

This is the peak of Civilization, I say this as a completely unbiased person. We have MILF Montezuma and GI Jeanne d'Arc, stacks of 20 spearmen treading through nuclear waste, railroad spaghetti so good it'll make your toes curl, man's first interpretation of facial micro- sorry, macro-expressions, ... This game is the meme that keeps on giving and I will forever cherish it. ♥️ It's also legitimately fun to play, not just funny. I found Civ 6 so bloated and busy with its many menus and DLCs that it sort of turned me off. I was surprised to return to this fossil of a game and then have more fun with it overall. Civ 3 also has a couple of features that aren't in the series anymore, like having a city view, designing your palace, the civ leaders and your advisors having a wardrobe update every era, ... it has spirit, it's a vibe.

Oct. 2024

This is one of the best games of all time. I have been playing it since I was in the 6th grade. I more then likely have well over 1,000 hours of real play time of this game over all the years. I used to come home and pick up my civ from where I left it. Before I knew it hours had gone by. I am now a grown man and I still play this game. IMHO it is far superior to the civ games that have come after it. They tended to make it easier to play and more orientated toward the casual or kid player. I will continue to play this game as long as I can run i have an OS that will run it.

Sept. 2024

Civilization 3 was and is, by far, the best Civ game ever. I do not understand how Sid Meier could deviate from the concepts, GUI, look-and-feel, etc., of this great game. Civ4 started to deviate by removing the 'defensive' stats of units, diplomacy seemed much more limited, and the graphical design was very bad with the 'giant units.' I won’t even mention Civ 5, which I played for maybe 30 seconds before immediately uninstalling: Civ 5 is an insult to the Civ lineage. Civ 6 I played for a few hours, but it just feels painful—it’s as if they deliberately threw away all the great ideas in Civ3. Combats, for example, which were always central to Civ, are now almost nonsensical to me. First, it is nonsensical and a pain to remove unit stacking. 'Ghost' garrisons that 'magically' exist in new cities are just nonsense. Unit movement points causing units to 'wait' until the next turn to move to hills or similar terrain is just a pain—all the excitement of combat in Civ 3 was removed. Diplomacy feels 'pre-defined' and dull compared to Civ3. And the interface is catastrophic compared to Civ3—the wonderful and very practical advisors's screen where you could see all your cities (and citizens' heads!) and all your units (per city or per unit), etc., are gone and replaced by useless and awkward elements. Wonders don’t feel like wonders. Shields are gone. We no longer have the 'feeling' of the process of building and accumulating shields. New 'features' like the 'civics tree,' districts, and other additions are merely minor and unnecessary complications that don't add any real value... I could go on for a while. I really beg Sid Meier to reconsider Civ3, which is objectively a wonder of the world. I am sick of people thinking that they need to change things just for the sake of change—even things that worked well! Keep the things that work. There are, however, many minor changes and improvements (e.g., new units, some details or 'bugs' in the diplomacy, etc.) that can be addressed. But 'change for change’s sake' is simply equivalent to stupidity and generally leads to very unsatisfactory outcomes. In the culinary world, you don't improve a recipe by randomly changing all the ingredients. Please, Sid Meier, if you read this: It’s time to revive and continue a 'true' Civilization lineage that fully embraces and builds upon the core principles that made Civ3 an unparalleled masterpiece. P.S. Please note that I have been playing Civ 3 since it was released around 2001-2002, and I still play it today. Before that, I played Civ 2, which was a fantastic game as well, though I must admit that Civ 2 now feels a bit "dated" to me. Civ 3, however, still doesn't feel like an old game, even here in 2024, which is solid proof of its enduring greatness.

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4.99€

8.7

6,404

738

Online players

1,726

Developer

Firaxis Games

Publisher

Release 25 Oct 2006

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