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Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Developer
Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Publisher
2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Franchise
Sid Meier's Civilization
Release date
Sep 21, 2010
Store page updated
Aug 22, 2024
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

90.7/ 100

Based on 406 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 93% of 251
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 210,849
“10/10 realistic role playing game”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.04
Strategy +3.79
“multiple viable strategies and playstyles available” (55)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.56

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

World +3.34

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.36
Replayability +4.25
“nearly limitless challenges and configurations provide high replayability” (20)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.29
Visuals +2.75
“graphics have aged well and still look good” (23)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.41

Not enough data — only 10% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +2.38

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.87
Balance -1.07
“balance between civilizations feels uneven, pushes toward similar strategies” (28)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-1.19
Performance +0.22

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
40%60%80%100%
Oct 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 242 reviews, peak 16/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 406 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English62%
  • Russian11%
  • Spanish5%
  • Korean5%
  • French4%
  • Chinese4%
  • Other10%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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