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Call to Power II cover art

Call to Power II

Activision · 2017-04-18

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 25, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Prepare to accept history's greatest challenge: build the world's most powerful empire over a span of 6,300 years.

Call to Power II is a Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $5.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Mixed (66% of 150 reviews).

9
playing now
66%
positive of 150 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Call to Power II is a PC turn-based strategy game released by Activision as a sequel to Civilization: Call to Power, which itself was named after the Civilization series by Sid Meier; this game could not have "Civilization" in its title because the license to the Civilization name was lost.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 14,371 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.8k–9.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 150 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2021-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 30 of 59 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1822026-09-16 01:00 — 9 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 11 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 11 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 11 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 8 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 13 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 11 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 12 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 9 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 7 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 9 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 13 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-15 15:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
121Apr 2017Aug 2026Apr 2017 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2017 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2018 — avg 5 · peak 14Jul 2018 — avg 4 · peak 10Oct 2018 — avg 5 · peak 13Jan 2019 — avg 5 · peak 13Apr 2019 — avg 5 · peak 13Jul 2019 — avg 5 · peak 12Oct 2019 — avg 6 · peak 15Jan 2020 — avg 8 · peak 17Apr 2020 — avg 12 · peak 26Jul 2020 — avg 7 · peak 19Oct 2020 — avg 7 · peak 17Jan 2021 — avg 8 · peak 19Apr 2021 — avg 7 · peak 17Jul 2021 — avg 6 · peak 15Oct 2021 — avg 9 · peak 19Jan 2022 — avg 12 · peak 27Apr 2022 — avg 11 · peak 21Jul 2022 — avg 7 · peak 17Oct 2022 — avg 8 · peak 18Jan 2023 — avg 8 · peak 18Apr 2023 — avg 7 · peak 17Jul 2023 — avg 7 · peak 20Oct 2023 — avg 8 · peak 20Jan 2024 — avg 9 · peak 20Apr 2024 — avg 10 · peak 23Jul 2024 — avg 10 · peak 26Oct 2024 — avg 9 · peak 21Jan 2025 — avg 11 · peak 26Apr 2025 — avg 11 · peak 25Jul 2025 — avg 8 · peak 20Oct 2025 — avg 9 · peak 23Jan 2026 — avg 9 · peak 25Apr 2026 — avg 8 · peak 22Jul 2026 — avg 9 · peak 20Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 28
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$2.992017-04-192026-10-152017-04-19 — best price $3.592017-11-28 — best price $5.992018-11-21 — best price $4.792019-02-12 — best price $5.992019-11-26 — best price $3.892020-01-27 — best price $5.992020-12-22 — best price $3.892021-07-08 — best price $5.992021-12-22 — best price $3.892022-07-07 — best price $5.992022-12-22 — best price $3.892023-04-24 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $2.992023-11-28 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $3.892024-06-08 — best price $5.992024-09-17 — best price $3.892025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-04-14 — best price $3.892025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-11-19 — best price $3.892026-02-23 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $3.892026-09-02 — best price $3.892026-09-07 — best price $3.892026-09-12 — best price $5.992026-09-17 — best price $5.992026-09-22 — best price $5.992026-09-27 — best price $3.892026-10-02 — best price $3.892026-10-07 — best price $5.992026-10-12 — best price $5.992026-10-15 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7372026-06-01 — 28 pageviews2026-06-05 — 14 pageviews2026-06-09 — 20 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-17 — 18 pageviews2026-06-21 — 15 pageviews2026-06-25 — 14 pageviews2026-06-29 — 12 pageviews2026-07-03 — 35 pageviews2026-07-07 — 16 pageviews2026-07-11 — 20 pageviews2026-07-15 — 32 pageviews2026-07-19 — 21 pageviews2026-07-23 — 25 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-31 — 11 pageviews2026-08-04 — 26 pageviews2026-08-08 — 17 pageviews2026-08-12 — 20 pageviews2026-08-16 — 23 pageviews2026-08-20 — 25 pageviews2026-08-24 — 29 pageviews2026-08-28 — 21 pageviews2026-09-01 — 20 pageviews2026-09-05 — 48 pageviews2026-09-09 — 21 pageviews2026-09-13 — 22 pageviews2026-09-17 — 20 pageviews2026-09-21 — 21 pageviews2026-09-25 — 20 pageviews2026-09-29 — 26 pageviews2026-10-03 — 19 pageviews2026-10-07 — 15 pageviews2026-10-11 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

4XStrategyTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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