Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: The Complete Edition

Despite the neat things in the latter instalments this Civ has the most breadth and depth of all of them. A major factor in which is the still vibrant modding scene. There exist mods for this game that are entire expansions unto themselves - all free for your enjoyment. And they don't just bring you new content to sink your teeth into - the game is ridiculously moddable to the point where mods can freely introduce anything from new gameplay mechanics, new screens, civics, new UI and many other quality of life improvements, all to deliver the most perfect CIV experience before or since. Dislike the stacks of doom? There's a mod for that. Want more information in your management screen? You got it. Think empire management is boring? Spice it up with with a mod! Want larger maps? More turns? More technologies? Take your game to the realms of fantasy or sci-fi? Go right ahead.

CivIV might be the best in the series when you consider the whole package, especially after the excellent "Beyond the Sword" expansion. However, one thing really bothered (and still bothers) me: stacking! And the developers answered my prayers in CivV which makes it really hard for me to go back to CivIV! I believe stacking makes the CivIV wars so boring and so "unstrategic", it has been really hard for me to go back from CivV (and now CivVI) However, I still miss some aspects of CivIV: best use of religion, best balance of micromanagement/automating them, corporations (although it needed some more balance testing imo), mods, wonder videos and Leonard Nimoy's excellent narration!! Also, worth mentioning is the "Colonization" expansion included in this package. Those who know the 90s original game, should definitely try it. This is as good as it gets!

Amazing game. Really glad that gog made it compatible to Windows 10. I played a lot to this game when it was in my old gamer from 2008 to 2015. Great graphics, nice dialogues(the late Leornard Nimoy narrates the games as the player gains new technologies). You can play multiple scenarios and attain differents types of victories mostly time victory but often space victories(if you have an enoufg large empire and avoid too much war) and sometime diplomatic victory. Its easy to play and its way better than the following one Civilisation V.

Didn't even realize GoG had added Civ 4 until I just saw the bundle in the Holiday Sale......wow.....I used to think Civ II was the game of all time, until Civ IV came along. I still play it to this day! And, after over a decade, that's saying something. If you have not played Civ IV, do not hesitate any longer! The one thing I'd recommend is getting the Buffy mod at CivFantics.com. It is a huge improvement to the interface, and you will not want to play the vanilla game again, once you play with this mod. Now if GoG adds the Diablo games, they would have the two most replayable game series' ever. Civilization and Diablo games have caused me to have a humongous backlog of other computer and video games! I still cannot stop playing them, to this day, 15 to 20 years after they were created!

My most favourite Civ! I still play it, particularly with one of the billion of mods out there. The gameplay flow, the different game mechanics and how they interact with each other is just really addictive and interesting; these mechanics become particularly interesting with mods who go in different directions and often deeper than the base game. The graphics aged definitely, but since when was Civ about graphics?