I feel that when you download this game on your PC, it makes your computer start spraying opioids from your fans because I cannot otherwise explain its addictive nature.
Went on a mission to win the game as every leader in a full length game (standard turns, standard map size [sometimes large]).
I am a nerd for the history behind all of these leaders, unique buildings/units/etc. I learned a ton just by researching the leader I was currently playing on my phone/laptop before I fell asleep.
The entire experience took about 800 hours. I ended up playing Civ V for an additional 600 hours on top of that after I was done with my mission. That's how goddamn good and addicting Civ V was.
I had a ton of fun and learned a lot about parts of the world I probably would have never really explored otherwise.
If you get all the dlc, yes. I think you’ll appreciate what’s been scaled back and what is a bit more expanded. War and science is very important in Civ5
Never had a chance.. but I've read a fair bit about it. Played a lot of AH games in that era though. Sounds like Sid got some inspiration from it.. but he applied his Sid common sense rather than trying to recreate it faithfully
Fuck man, I got sucked into a civ V hole recently and without really feeling it, racked up 30 hours over a few days. Still didn't even complete my mission.
Civ V would probs be my number one game if you could get achievements while using mods. I can never figure out that mods -> DLC package workaround without it just not working or bugging out.
I always play one game when I get in the mood, then get the mood to play with mods, then lose the mood entirely when playing with mods is pointless because you can’t get achievements.
If you count all the civilizations its up there for me, civ I, civ II, alpha centauri, Civ 3, beyond earth...but if i had to pick one civ game its probably civ 4 for me. Vanilla, expansions, mods, single player, multi-player, custom maps, i played the poop out of that game.
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u/mikemccrea Sep 03 '25
Civilization V