Sid Meier's Civilization® IV

With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new...

Sid Meier's Civilization® IV 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 on Windows and MacOS in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 3,240 reviews of which 3,013 were positive and 227 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

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

Strategy Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based 4X Historical Multiplayer Singleplayer Moddable Grand Strategy Classic Addictive Simulation Replay Value Resource Management Great Soundtrack War Tactical Economy Management Local Multiplayer

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Requirements

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Windows

Minimum: Windows 2000/XP, 1.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent, 256MB RAM, 64 MB Video Card w/ Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better) DirectX7 compatible sound card, 1.7GB of free hard drive space, DirectX9.0c (included)
Recommended: Windows 2000/XP, 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent/better, 512 MB RAM, 128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 8 support (pixel and vertex shaders), DirectX7 compatible sound card, 1.7GB of free hard drive space, DirectX9.0c (included)

MacOS

Recommended:

OS: 10.12 (Sierra)
Processor: Intel chipset
CPU Speed: 2.0 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 3.5 GB free disk space
Video Card: (ATI): Radeon 9600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 5200
Video Memory: (VRam): 128 MB RAM
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection.
Media Required: DVD Drive Supported Video cards: NVIDIA GeForce 5200, 6600, 6800, 7800 ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X600, X800, X850, X1600
NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive).

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

This game is very much still worth it in 2024 and even in 2025 soon. This is legit the best game I've ever played.

Sept. 2024

got this on sale, totally new to the civ series. "well, I've got about 15 minutes before bed...that's enough time to check out the game mechanics before I have to sleep." (6 hours later, as dawn is beginning to break) "DAMMIT I WAS 2 TURNS AWAY FROM WINNING THE SPACE RACE!!!!!!!!!" this game is very fun, and probably very bad for my health. two thumbs up!

Aug. 2024

This is the last Civilization game before they took away the ability to stack units. I feel like it's the last of an era.

May 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

Jan. 2024

5 dropped the ball on so much in regards to complexity and diplomatic options, and 6 did even worse. Unfortunately 5 will always be my preferred option due to combat alone. Seriously, combat in 4 (BTS) is awful, and significantly holds the game back in my opinion. I come back every once in a while, but I never stay long. Recommend if you're looking for a cheap/ low spec entry to the franchise or prefer background complexity over proper turn based combat. This game blows the whole franchise out of the water until a war starts, which depending on your playstyle might not even be a large portion of the game. God combat fucking sucks though, whose idea was it to make air power useless at a certain strength % against ships? -Most people have their hours in BTS, disregard mine. I don't have a ton on for 4 anyways but it was the first I got not counting Revolution, so the rose tinted glasses hit hard. Also Take Two is a genuinely shitty company, and you'll have to agree to their privacy policy to get in. I don't hate valve, but you could probably just pirate a copy without all that jazz. Beyond that, I genuinely don't think Firaxis or 2k have earned your money anymore, seeing what they spent it on for 6. The game is practically live service at this point, and civilization 7 probably will be. If you're really committed to doing things the legal way I'd work through GoG and minimize the profit made off of you, they also have Alpha Centauri which is quite probably the best IP with Sids name on it. Even if you have plenty to spare, respect your dollar more; it's the only power you have in the digital marketplace. Blue thumb instead of red thumb because it's definitely a good game, and I generally agree with the arguments that the franchise started going downhill from here (5 is still my favorite, but that's after modding it to be more like 4). I just promise that unless you're one of the old spergs high off of Adderall and nostalgia you're going to hate combat and wish it were skippable. Good scenarios, dated modding scene but like morrowind there are die-hards still around keeping the ship afloat.

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19.99€

8.9

3,013

227

Online players

655

Developer

Firaxis Games

Publisher

Release 25 Oct 2006

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