Posted on: November 22, 2023

Severian_96

Games: 12 Reviews: 4

The best Sid Meier's game after SMAC

If you are on Linux (+lutris), just make sure to add the KeepRes=1 line in the conquest.ini file otherwise the game might not start for you. The problem i had in particular was whenever i would try to start the game, the initialisation wouldn't finish (selecting team colour) so this was bypassed by the already mentioned trick. Yes, there are some minor glitches like the cheering sound being on repeat after the people grant you the palace upgrade, but these are all artificial at best. Works like the charm on Windows 10, but dont forget to add the same line here as well. Alas, always have guards posted around your colonies...

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Posted on: March 1, 2020

blutok

Games: 705 Reviews: 29

Fighting is terrible

As I can remember, AI during wars was cheating, making the wars pretty hard (almost impossible) to win.

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Posted on: September 26, 2022

ryansdad1031

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Games: 32 Reviews: 15

The best Civ game, period.

Civ 3 is the best in the series, period. Civ 2 was great as well, but it didn't age well, and honestly Civ 3 made a lot of improvements over Civ 2 when it comes to some gameplay mechanics. All the Civ games that came after #3, however, got waaaaay too cartoony looking for my tastes. I think Civ 3 has the best "style" of graphics in the series. I've put thousands of hours into Civ 3, and it never gets old. The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because there are a few annoying things about the AI. The trading system is unbalanced (as in, other countries will want you to give them like 5 things in exchange for one thing). Also, countries get mad at you for no reason, and the game doesn't tell you why. One other annoyance is the randomness to combat. I don't think a spearman or an archer should ever be able to defeat a tank... but it happens sometimes thanks to a random number generator. Besides those few complaints, it's still a very fun and addicting game, and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes 4X strategy games.

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Posted on: December 9, 2023

Fergei

Verified owner

Games: 106 Reviews: 3

Fully customisable - timeless

I never played this at the time of release despite loving the first two Civs. Coming to it almost 20 years following release I found an excellent base game, but with some balance issues. The default settings mean the first half of the game is far harder than the second half. All the AI's advantages are frontloaded to the start of the game. It is still entertaining, however.... The editor that comes with the game is simple to use and incredibly versitile. You can tweak settings to effectively make the strategy game that you want to play in terms of difficulty, game balance, game speed. Pretty much everything is customisable. That is without going into the full blown mod options with customised units, graphics, settings etc. Multiplayer is superb, but with a couple of minor bugs. GoG version with the basic download (not using Galaxy) works perfectly on XP despite being listed as needing Windows 7. Civ2 is possibly the best game I played growing up, but I will never play it again because Civ3 is that good.

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Posted on: April 20, 2025

Brashaa

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Games: 351 Reviews: 2

Trouble with Windows 11

I found on several forums that to play Civilization III on Windows 11, you had to edit the 'conquests.ini' file and add two values (preferably before launching the game): KeepRes=1 PlayIntro=0 Good luck

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