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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

Firaxis Games · 2K · 2014-10-23

Steam

Strategy

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

Releases: Oct 24, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 18, 2014 (Linux), Nov 26, 2014 (Mac)

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ is a Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $39.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 23,165 reviews).

219
playing now
61%
positive of 23k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (106 ratings)
10
Nexus mods (14k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$39.99
steam price (US)

219 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy, 4X video game in the Civilization series developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games and released for Microsoft Windows on October 24, 2014, the Mac App Store on November 27, 2014 and for Linux on December 18, 2014. The game's premise is that Earth became uninhabitable due to an undescribed disaster known as "the Great Mistake", forcing humanity to colonize space in the 23rd century. As a spiritual successor to the 1999 game Alpha Centauri, Beyond Earth shares much of its development team and some concepts, most notably its setting on an exoplanet in the future.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 219 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 224 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 14,027 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 580k–1.4M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 23,182 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$8.59-79%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.00 at Dreamgame (2024-12-12) · bundled 13×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 96 of 164 observed days · $4.59 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11711720182026Week of 2018-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4461742026-09-14 20:00 — 405 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 225 players2026-09-17 12:00 — 260 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 377 players2026-09-20 03:00 — 290 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 210 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 326 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 239 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 211 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 427 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 306 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 179 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 302 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 261 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 223 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 399 players2026-10-05 22:00 — 302 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 180 players2026-10-08 13:00 — 267 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 323 players2026-10-11 04:00 — 260 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 220 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 306 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 219 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
28k280Oct 2014Aug 2026Oct 2014 — avg 28,464 · peak 86,747Feb 2015 — avg 3,510 · peak 7,896Jun 2015 — avg 2,354 · peak 4,800Oct 2015 — avg 4,565 · peak 13,459Feb 2016 — avg 3,038 · peak 6,942Jun 2016 — avg 1,714 · peak 4,325Oct 2016 — avg 1,461 · peak 2,894Feb 2017 — avg 959 · peak 2,153Jun 2017 — avg 792 · peak 1,536Oct 2017 — avg 736 · peak 1,339Feb 2018 — avg 767 · peak 1,449Jun 2018 — avg 617 · peak 1,119Oct 2018 — avg 593 · peak 1,050Feb 2019 — avg 717 · peak 1,372Jun 2019 — avg 519 · peak 901Oct 2019 — avg 576 · peak 1,046Feb 2020 — avg 531 · peak 927Jun 2020 — avg 568 · peak 981Oct 2020 — avg 490 · peak 798Feb 2021 — avg 490 · peak 870Jun 2021 — avg 385 · peak 712Oct 2021 — avg 449 · peak 872Feb 2022 — avg 448 · peak 772Jun 2022 — avg 365 · peak 598Oct 2022 — avg 389 · peak 660Feb 2023 — avg 405 · peak 681Jun 2023 — avg 323 · peak 522Oct 2023 — avg 356 · peak 567Feb 2024 — avg 364 · peak 612Jun 2024 — avg 322 · peak 511Oct 2024 — avg 336 · peak 576Feb 2025 — avg 443 · peak 802Jun 2025 — avg 281 · peak 462Oct 2025 — avg 292 · peak 479Feb 2026 — avg 321 · peak 542Jun 2026 — avg 280 · peak 475Aug 2026 — avg 281 · peak 462
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
882026-09-222026-10-112026-09-22: 8 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 1 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new positive2026-09-26: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 1 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 1 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 2 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$49.99$4.492015-01-012026-10-122015-01-01 — best price $29.992015-04-09 — best price $32.462015-07-06 — best price $49.992015-10-07 — best price $20.002016-01-13 — best price $39.992016-03-17 — best price $39.992016-07-04 — best price $39.992016-10-14 — best price $11.992017-03-06 — best price $39.992017-08-04 — best price $11.992017-12-21 — best price $12.012018-06-01 — best price $49.992018-11-06 — best price $9.992019-04-26 — best price $9.992019-08-23 — best price $39.992019-12-11 — best price $9.992020-02-14 — best price $34.672020-05-11 — best price $8.002020-08-28 — best price $8.502020-11-03 — best price $32.492021-02-01 — best price $35.892021-04-20 — best price $39.992021-08-08 — best price $35.892022-01-06 — best price $9.992022-05-16 — best price $39.992022-09-27 — best price $8.992023-03-13 — best price $7.192023-08-14 — best price $7.882023-12-15 — best price $39.992024-03-29 — best price $35.092024-08-26 — best price $8.142024-11-16 — best price $39.992025-02-27 — best price $39.992025-06-01 — best price $6.492025-08-21 — best price $9.202025-11-21 — best price $9.392026-03-07 — best price $10.002026-06-12 — best price $10.002026-09-04 — best price $9.992026-10-12 — best price $8.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

280432026-05-31 — 70 pageviews2026-06-04 — 69 pageviews2026-06-08 — 59 pageviews2026-06-12 — 51 pageviews2026-06-16 — 55 pageviews2026-06-20 — 93 pageviews2026-06-24 — 70 pageviews2026-06-28 — 85 pageviews2026-07-02 — 76 pageviews2026-07-06 — 64 pageviews2026-07-10 — 71 pageviews2026-07-14 — 48 pageviews2026-07-18 — 55 pageviews2026-07-22 — 63 pageviews2026-07-26 — 71 pageviews2026-07-30 — 66 pageviews2026-08-03 — 73 pageviews2026-08-07 — 45 pageviews2026-08-11 — 73 pageviews2026-08-15 — 88 pageviews2026-08-19 — 71 pageviews2026-08-23 — 79 pageviews2026-08-27 — 75 pageviews2026-08-31 — 77 pageviews2026-09-04 — 108 pageviews2026-09-08 — 280 pageviews2026-09-12 — 72 pageviews2026-09-16 — 61 pageviews2026-09-20 — 76 pageviews2026-09-24 — 56 pageviews2026-09-28 — 70 pageviews2026-10-02 — 68 pageviews2026-10-06 — 60 pageviews2026-10-10 — 43 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

202026-09-30 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-09-30 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 01:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 12:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
79.5%
earned "Light This Candle"
13.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2014-11-26, latest 2015-10-09 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

4XSpaceAliensSci-fiHex GridStrategyTacticalFuturisticTurn-BasedExploration

Census log

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

Recent updates

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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