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Sid Meier's Civilization® V is a turn-based strategy, strategy and turn-based game developed by Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac) and Aspyr (Linux) and published by Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux) and 2K.
Released on September 23rd 2010 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 203,484 reviews of which 194,977 were positive and 8,507 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2GB RAM
  • Graphics:256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
  • DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
  • Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
  • Note: Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device
MacOS
  • OS: 10.12 (Sierra)
    Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core) CPU Speed: 2.4 GHz
    Memory: 2 GB RAM
    Hard Disk Space: 8 GB
    Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 2600
    Video Card (NVidia): Geforce 8600
    Video Card (Intel): HD 4000
    Video Memory (VRam): 256MB

    Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Please note, it is possible for Mac and PC to become out of sync during updates. Within this short time period, Mac users will only be able to play other Mac users.
  • NOTICE:This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)
  • NOTICE: The following video chipsets are not supported for Civilization V:
    ATI Radeon X1000 series, HD 2400
    Nvidia GeForce 7000 series, 8600, 9400
    Intel GMA (950/X3100), HD 3000

    NOTICE:The Mac version is only available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
Linux
Operating System: SteamOS, Ubuntu
CPU Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD A10
CPU Speed: 2.4GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 10 GB
Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 6450
Video Card (NVidia): Geforce 640M
Video Card (Intel): Iris Pro
Video Memory (VRam): 1GB

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Don't meet the above requirements? Running on Ubuntu? That doesn't mean your configuration wont run Civ V, it just means we have not tested and vetted your configuration. Visit the Civilization V community page to share your experience with other Linux players and learn about how to send bugs to Aspyr. Your feedback will help us improve Civ V Linux and future AAA Linux releases!

NOTICE: Intel Integrated video chipsets (GMA 9XX, HD 3XXX) will not run Civilization V for SteamOS and Linux, and are unsupported.

NOTICE:The Linux version is only available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
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Feb. 2025
After playing Civ 7 for a bit, it made me further appreciate Civ 5 with the Vox Populi mod as the best in the series by far. A shame how Civ 7 is a regression in many aspects from Civ 5, a game released 15 years ago....
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Jan. 2025
Civilizations is the best computer game of all time and version V is the best version in my opinion.
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Jan. 2025
If Civilization 5 isn't launching after the recent update where they removed the 2k launcher do the following. 1. Go to your steam library 2. Right click on the game 3. Click on properties 4. Click on installed files 5. At the top right of the window you will see the location of installed files, click on the browse 6. In the directory right click on either executable you wish to run. CivilizationV.exe or CivilizationV_DX11.exe 7. Click on properties 8. Click on compatibility 9. Enable compatibility mode with windows 8 or 7 mode 10. Click apply 11. Run the game through the selected executable in the folder not the play button through steam. 12. Enjoy It has been reported that this additional function might help with making the game run with some individuals. In the compatibility screen with step 8, enable run as administrator. This should also help with getting the game to run.
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Jan. 2025
Recently booted up 5, only to be shocked to discover how much better it is than 6. Best way I can describe it is 5 is an organic Civilization building experience and thus more immersive while 6 is just a bunch of gimmick mechanics like districts and DLCs that don't really add anything of value, feels like playing a card deck building game more than a 4x game. Not to mention the art is actually good instead of looking like a mobile game. Just get this game if you want a true Civilization experience, the new ones are under terrible management by very confused people.
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Aug. 2024
Civ 5 to me still is far better then CIv 6... I have played over 3200 hours of Civ 5 versus around 400 hours of Civ 6, and I find the AI in Civ 6 incredibly irritating as it goes out of its way to setup its own cites as close to you as possible. I have had many games where the AI is on a completely different continent having a lot of room to expand on their own lands, but invariably decides to cross the seas to setup shop on your continent. As well as the endless missionaries invading your land like they have nothing better to do then keep building missionary units to convert your people...
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
9.5
194,977
8,507
Online players
17,695
Developer
Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Publisher
Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux), 2K
Release 23 Sep 2010
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