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CivIdle

FishPond · Fish Pond Studio · 2025-12-04

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyFree To Play

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

Releases: Feb 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

CivIdle is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy, and Free To Play game released in 2025, free-to-play, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 1106 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

73%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 345 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~43/week).
  • · Review velocity up 89% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10410420242026Week of 2024-02-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
46.3%
earned "Bronze"
1.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Spanish - Spain, Turkish

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2024-04-05, latest 2026-06-05 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,2670%70

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

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

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