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Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Firaxis Games · 2K · 2010-09-21

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Strategy

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

Releases: Jun 11, 2014 (Linux), Sep 24, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 23, 2010 (Mac)

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Sid Meier's Civilization® V is a Strategy game released in 2010, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 210,785 reviews).

9,956
playing now
96%
positive of 211k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
10,000,000–20,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
52
twitch viewers (latest)
8.7
viewers/channel (concentration)
87/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (1162 ratings)
23
Nexus mods (18k downloads)
53h
to beat · rushed 12h · completionist 511h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

9,956 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Sid Meier's Civilization V is a 4X turn-based strategy video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K. It is the sequel to Civilization IV, and was released for Windows in September 2010, for Mac OS X on November 23, 2010, and for Linux on June 10, 2014.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 9,956 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,500 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~313/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 14,087 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.4M–17M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 211,092 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$6.44-79%
Steam$7.49-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.24 at Dreamgame (2024-12-12) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 134 of 196 observed days · $4.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.7k2.7k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 679 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 504 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 617 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 634 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 320 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2,500 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 186 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 543 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 384 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,484 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,786 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2,726 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2,133 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,683 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,349 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,742 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,768 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,349 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 952 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 907 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 767 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 738 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 834 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 906 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 825 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 661 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 565 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 578 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 552 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 517 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 527 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 583 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 470 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 443 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 548 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 534 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 444 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 486 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 398 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 388 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 443 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 374 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 604 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 465 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 428 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 454 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 322 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 342 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 365 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 299 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 329 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 343 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 328 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 390 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 223 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 365 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 204 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 459 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 386 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 322 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 403 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 340 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 308 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

19k8.7k2026-09-15 11:00 — 11,104 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 15,318 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 10,046 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 13,724 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 18,858 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 11,112 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 9,939 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 14,819 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 12,437 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 12,690 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 14,347 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 11,540 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 8,733 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 13,824 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 16,624 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 9,352 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 12,229 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 13,881 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 9,511 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 14,285 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 18,875 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 10,613 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 9,956 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
43k13kJul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 27,448 · peak 50,756Dec 2012 — avg 25,455 · peak 50,891May 2013 — avg 20,945 · peak 36,679Oct 2013 — avg 32,112 · peak 63,023Mar 2014 — avg 34,497 · peak 64,115Aug 2014 — avg 39,050 · peak 80,375Jan 2015 — avg 34,807 · peak 62,502Jun 2015 — avg 31,192 · peak 53,711Nov 2015 — avg 30,983 · peak 58,683Apr 2016 — avg 34,055 · peak 59,108Sep 2016 — avg 36,846 · peak 67,413Feb 2017 — avg 26,702 · peak 46,403Jul 2017 — avg 27,746 · peak 44,623Dec 2017 — avg 28,469 · peak 48,964May 2018 — avg 23,279 · peak 37,341Oct 2018 — avg 22,759 · peak 37,020Mar 2019 — avg 23,146 · peak 39,067Aug 2019 — avg 19,922 · peak 30,817Jan 2020 — avg 20,642 · peak 32,681Jun 2020 — avg 19,808 · peak 31,355Nov 2020 — avg 18,655 · peak 28,367Apr 2021 — avg 17,773 · peak 27,026Sep 2021 — avg 16,202 · peak 23,945Feb 2022 — avg 16,767 · peak 26,362Jul 2022 — avg 16,014 · peak 23,225Dec 2022 — avg 16,598 · peak 23,924May 2023 — avg 14,579 · peak 21,998Oct 2023 — avg 14,650 · peak 22,219Mar 2024 — avg 14,917 · peak 23,075Aug 2024 — avg 15,116 · peak 24,206Jan 2025 — avg 15,029 · peak 23,240Jun 2025 — avg 13,294 · peak 19,840Nov 2025 — avg 13,636 · peak 20,072Apr 2026 — avg 13,696 · peak 21,107Aug 2026 — avg 13,131 · peak 19,388
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
15152026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 10 new positive2026-09-23: 5 new positive2026-09-24: 10 new positive2026-09-25: 8 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new negative2026-09-27: 15 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 7 new positive2026-09-30: 10 new positive2026-10-02: 10 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 9 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 6 new positive2026-10-07: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 1 new positive2026-10-10: 14 new positive2026-10-11: 7 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 15 new positive2026-10-14: 10 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$47.49$2.992015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-04-22 — best price $7.502015-07-26 — best price $7.742015-12-08 — best price $29.992016-04-01 — best price $29.992016-08-08 — best price $26.142017-01-20 — best price $7.482017-07-23 — best price $25.532017-12-26 — best price $29.992018-05-19 — best price $12.502018-11-03 — best price $43.992019-02-18 — best price $29.992019-08-04 — best price $29.992020-01-28 — best price $9.892020-05-18 — best price $29.992020-08-04 — best price $29.992020-10-26 — best price $7.492021-01-22 — best price $7.492021-04-29 — best price $26.992021-07-22 — best price $37.982021-10-25 — best price $5.782022-02-22 — best price $26.762022-05-30 — best price $7.492022-09-08 — best price $29.992023-01-11 — best price $26.282023-06-12 — best price $29.992023-10-22 — best price $7.482024-02-01 — best price $6.382024-05-25 — best price $6.312024-08-29 — best price $6.902024-12-20 — best price $7.492025-05-04 — best price $6.902025-08-15 — best price $29.992025-11-18 — best price $29.992026-03-07 — best price $7.502026-06-18 — best price $7.492026-08-31 — best price $7.482026-10-14 — best price $6.44
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5311572026-06-02 — 192 pageviews2026-06-06 — 185 pageviews2026-06-10 — 186 pageviews2026-06-14 — 177 pageviews2026-06-18 — 206 pageviews2026-06-22 — 209 pageviews2026-06-26 — 245 pageviews2026-06-30 — 212 pageviews2026-07-04 — 201 pageviews2026-07-08 — 248 pageviews2026-07-12 — 220 pageviews2026-07-16 — 193 pageviews2026-07-20 — 175 pageviews2026-07-24 — 174 pageviews2026-07-28 — 213 pageviews2026-08-01 — 196 pageviews2026-08-05 — 209 pageviews2026-08-09 — 232 pageviews2026-08-13 — 210 pageviews2026-08-17 — 249 pageviews2026-08-21 — 233 pageviews2026-08-25 — 250 pageviews2026-08-29 — 231 pageviews2026-09-02 — 194 pageviews2026-09-06 — 307 pageviews2026-09-10 — 263 pageviews2026-09-14 — 244 pageviews2026-09-18 — 247 pageviews2026-09-22 — 215 pageviews2026-09-26 — 177 pageviews2026-09-30 — 172 pageviews2026-10-04 — 190 pageviews2026-10-08 — 185 pageviews2026-10-11 — 222 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

79802026-09-30 22:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 604 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 106 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 626 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 91 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 669 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 157 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 740 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 65 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 607 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 13:34 — 488 viewers2026-10-06 22:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-07 07:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-07 16:34 — 672 viewers2026-10-08 01:34 — 212 viewers2026-10-08 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 19:34 — 674 viewers2026-10-09 04:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 105 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 595 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 674 viewers2026-10-11 01:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 87 viewers2026-10-11 19:34 — 184 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 116 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 105 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 170 viewers2026-10-13 16:34 — 227 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 70 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 190 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 52 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
88.5%
earned "Treasure Hunter"
31.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing15 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 15 DLC released, first 2010-10-25, latest 2013-11-05 (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

4XCo-opEconomyHex GridStrategyTacticalAddictiveDiplomacyHistoricalTurn-Based

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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