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Posted on: August 31, 2025
whoamus
Verified ownerGames: 62 Reviews: 2
Great Game. My Fav Civ.
Started playing this again. Played when brand new, also played 1, 2, and 3, when new. I skipped 5 and played 6, passing on 7. Man, I am old. Found my box set with the printed book, 224 pages. Miss those days when you got something in a box. I will be playing this for a while.
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Posted on: May 13, 2018
Nicholas_Thien
Games: 48 Reviews: 19
Best time waster I know
This game is the best way to waste your time. I mean that in a good way. I spent days and weeks and months with this game. It's beautifullly thought out, highly challenging, educative in parts and a lot of fun. It's also relaxing and despite it's flaws the best strategy game I ever came across. The expansion packs add some more fun, especially in the later parts of the game and some more variety in the earlier parts: They integrate corporate structures in your empire or state, emphasize religion and culture a bit more and add new leaders and civilizations to play. Despite all this praise, years of playing this gem allow for some critique. There are some rather annoying flaws in the game. First of all, balance is an issue. You can tweak your random szenarios a bit to make the game more fair. But some civilizations still tend to be more powerful that others. And all will fail when confronted with a bad starting location or bad luck with random events. These - like everything else in the game that's based on chance - tend to affect the game greatly in the beginning and to become mere trifles towards the end. Also, the game becomes almost impossible to win on higher difficulty levels. While it will still be fun to play, you will end up on the loosing end more often than not. Also, combat can become weird with units stacked on top of each other. Often, you will do fine until one of your friends decides to wipe you out with the majority of his units stacked into one army. That will also be your best chance of winning, making other strategies obsolete at times. Other flaws are in the science tree and in diplomacy: The science tree is ludicrous if you look at it closely. Diplomacy is very underdeveloped, with threats or advances for help from rivaling civilizations becoming repetative and annoying. Nonetheless, the game was better than anything on the market when it came out and still shines today. With the following titles of the series not adding much to the concept, it is probably the best title in the whole series - and one that still runs smoothly on older machines.
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Posted on: February 25, 2024
dukeofearle
Games: 165 Reviews: 11
The only Civ worth buying
The first 3 are fun, but clearly breaking new ground as games. V is just hot garbage of new graphics and circle-jerking devs. IV is the balance of great mechanics, good UI, and flawless gameplay.
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Posted on: December 3, 2016
Akka
Verified ownerGames: 714 Reviews: 15
Simply said, the best.
Here we have the highest peak of a glorious serie. Civ4 is a lovingly crafted jewel, which benefitted from the deepest development phase in the serie history, and it showed clearly through the extremely elegant design and supremely tought-out mechanisms. Civilization IV reaches the equilibrium between complexity and accessibility, between depth and variety. Far, far better than those which followed it, and even better than those which preceded it, it's the definite, ultimate, best Civ game ever.
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Posted on: January 18, 2022
Hannibalscipio
Verified ownerGames: 197 Reviews: 51
Extreme value
You could view this as 2 completely different games, one with 2 hefty mods, or even as 4 somewhat different games. There's just so much here. I think that Civ4, along with Civ2, is the finest exemplar in the franchise. Later games got a little overcomplicated. The theme for the game is one of the best in gaming history, and the game is beautiful throughout. As the game provides many scores of hours of enjoyable gameplay, it's well worth the price tag. The gameplay is intuitive. The game is pretty easy to grasp, but the difficulty settings allow players of all levels to enjoy it.
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