Sid Meier's Civilization® V

You guide a civilization from its early beginnings through successive eras, founding cities and shaping its development. Explore the map, claim territory, and contend with rival civilizations and historical leaders.

Grow your empire by developing cities, researching technologies, managing resources, and choosing how to engage with other powers. Diplomacy includes negotiations with leaders and interaction with city-states, while paths to victory include military, scientific, cultural, and diplomatic goals.

Combat takes place on a hex grid, with one military unit occupying each tile, making positioning and terrain important. Each turn advances your plans and the world around you; games can be played solo or in multiplayer, and community-created mods and scenarios offer additional ways to play.

In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often enjoy the combination of accessible turn-based play and strategic depth, along with the variety of possible approaches and replayable campaigns. Many describe getting drawn into extended sessions, and some also praise the tactical hex-grid combat, historical presentation, and support for mods. These are recurring impressions in the supplied reviews, not a measure of every player's experience.