Sid Meier's Civilization® V

"Just one more turn." Oh, you thought you were gonna play for 15 minutes? Nope, you're playing for 15 hours. Man this game is amazing. There's a lot of improvements i like in Civ VI but V is just so much... cleaner? smoother? The aesthetics and gameplay is just better. The tone and graphics being more serious. Simpler game mechanics but lots of depth to them. Better pacing on standard speed. Much better policy system and worker system. If you want to experience the pinnacle of civilization games, fire up Civ V.

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality. EXTREMELY PISSED! I used to love playing this game! Now I can NOT PLAY IT ANYMORE because of this literal bullcrap.

One of the most dangerous games I've ever encountered. Time has a way of slipping by without a care in the world. One moment the sun is out and you're feeling chipper. The next, you're trying to balance out your nation's economy while also trying to maintain some temporary peace with your neighboring countries after some border disputes gone sour. All this done, of course, under the pale moonlight because you've just spent 10 hours playing this game without realizing it. Absolute gas.

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Then we have the lack of transparency in data processing, data transfers to third countries, dubious consent by minors, no purpose limitation, profiling and to top it all of - insufficient justification for data use. Collected Data Types as per the EULA, it's a generalisation for anything and everything 2K related, this list includes more than just what the game collects. It includes everything they want to collect through their services, from you. • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

Civ V has been installed in my library since I bought the game back in 2012. I would occasionally come back to it; it was such a good civilization game. 2K updated their EULA and this cannot be tolerated. Do not give greedy 2K your data they don't need for the game you already paid for. A harsh reminder that no one truly owns anything anymore.

Let me be clear, i gave you MONEY so i could play your games alone. NOT to give you unneeded access to personal information you have zero right to. You guys lost me after the chaotic great edition ripoff that was wonderlands,but this? Retroactivly changing every EULA for every game you have ever made to give you the "right" to our data Beyond the pale,i truly hope that your company fails due to your own stupidity and greed.

Just played this again on my mac, and my computer sends me a request saying the game wants to record all of my keystrokes. So, that matches what people are saying about the eula. Too bad Windows doesn't make it easier to block crappy behavior from software companies like that.

EN \ RU WARNING - 2K GAMES Spying you Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. including Borderlands, Bioshock, Mafia, Civilization, X-Com and others. Important information in the Terms of Service: • All information about you, including personal data (name, address, phone numbers, transactions, software used on the PC and other goodies, including porn that you watch), is collected and then leaked to potential advertisers • Banned for mods • Banned for cheats and exploits • Banned for VPN • Banned for virtual machines • Ads can be shown in games, as if it were a free mobile milking machine • You automatically refuse to file a lawsuit when you launch their games • And finally: they reserve the right to change this Agreement in whole or in part at any time RU\ ВНИМАНИЕ - 2K GAMES Шпионит за вами Take-Two и 2K games обновили лицензионные соглашения на все свои игры, включая бордерлендс, биошок, мафию, цивилизацию, икс ком и другие. Важная информация в Условиях обслуживания: • О вас собирается вся инфа, включая персональные данные (имя, адрес, телефонные номера, транзакции, используемое на пк по и прочие прелести, включая порно, которое вы смотрите), после чего сливается потенциальным рекламодателям • За моды бан • За читы и эксплойты бан • За впн бан • За виртуальную машину бан • В играх могут показывать рекламные ролики, будто это бесплатная мобильная доилка • Вы на автомате отказываетесь от подачи иска в суд при запуске их игр • И последнее: они оставляют за собой право изменять это Соглашение полностью или частично в любое время

Welcome to Spyware, the new corporate anthem of 2K. I dearly wish game publishers would stick with making games, and maybe some fun and innovative ones again. Instead, "customers" own nothing and are just treated as data points to harvest for excessive profit. I loved this game, but no more games from this publisher so long as they continue making such anti-consumer choices.

Started the game up after a hiatus, only to realize it literally doesn't work. Can't start a game without having a black screen with bugged icons. Neither multiplayer nor singleplayer works. Also read about their new EULA, disgusting behaviour. -uninstall

No longer works in multiplayer after latest patch, plus updated EULA adds spyware. Don't purchase unless they revert.

Great work on ruining this game with your toxic EULA changes 2K.. Pro tip: If you click a publisher of a game (at the top) to view their publisher page, you can click the cog symbol to ignore this publisher

Negative review because I can no longer play the game. I cannot agree (who would?!?) to allowing some rando to have rootkit level access to my machine and personal data harvested. Uninstalled. All folders deleted. HD sectors overwritten with noise. Hard drive scanned with two anti-maleware apps.

I was about to buy a DLC and reinstall this game... then i saw the reviews aboout the change to the EULA. Cancelled reinstallation and bought something else. I wont be part of this circus.

Loved the game but cant support the New spyware model forced on players . i hope all the games tank until they remove this crap from the back end.

This game was absolutely great and as much as I would like to recommend it I can never recomend putting all, and I mean ALL of your personal data in such a vulnerable state. This company has become entirely evil and should be completely stripped of any device that has it installed. This has become nothing more than SPYWARE.

Played civ3, civ4 and now playing civ5. One of the best turn based games. The gaming logic, the animation, the music, the city, troops, diplomacy, policy, faith etc etc, everything is just 'AWESOME'

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Bros, don't let them spy on you. Boycott these clowns. I bought their games many years ago. But they recently changed their terms of service and I can't get a refund. What they do should be illegal.

2K changed their EULA to make their games literal spyware. I will never play another 2K game again.

I love older games, there just made better. If you have friends or family to play with very fun.

I almost feel like you either like real time strategy (RTS) like Age of Empires, or you like turn-based strategy like this. I tried for a while with Civ 5 and there were a lot of neat features, but that long playtime probably translates to just a few games lol everything takes so long to do, games take forever to complete. There are some good mods at least. I'm just not the target demographic.

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new EULA from 2K and firaxis ,that essentially spies the user OUTSIDE the game and sends the info to the advertising companies...just ''aquire'' the game elseware. i stopped playing 2k games though steam

despite everything, this is still the best civ game ever made, and one of the best strategy games ever made. would be really awesome if i could launch it, though. the bug where i'll try to launch the game and it'll just stop booting up stopped happening to me a while ago and its been fine for months but now its back, and that made me realize that they NEVER actually fixed this issue, you just have to pray that it'll work after pressing the "play" button 1000 times thanks 2k. </3 please fix this.

Can't even play anymore because i just get a black screen every time i try to start a new game or an existing game.

when i was a very young man living in the middle of nowhere without internet for several years playing this game daily was a fun experience despite it being singleplayer i loved this game the most after i spent years playing civ 3 but then for some unknown reason 2k decided that they had to flood it with spyware and a changed eula all for nothing but a landslide of negative reviews so ill add mine onto the pile and throw this into hidden until maybe in a decade or two when the company finally sinks from pushing out terrible unfinished sequels and incredibly scummy, underhanded, unethical business decisions directed by the head of 2k that maybe itll all be gone and i can play this masterpiece in peace OH and before i forget mods are now a bannable offense

My most played game on Steam (as of review). Fantastic strategy game overall, great aesthetics even for a nearly 15 year old game. Main caveat is probably only buy if you buy the Complete Edition (goes on sale at least each major sale) as the base game is maybe a 5/10, but with the expansions is one of the best games ever made in my opinion. They add so much that the base game is barren without it.

You start a game to relax for 30 minutes before bed. Suddenly it's 4 AM, you're trying to outmaneuver Napoleon for oil, Gandhi has nuked your coastal cities, and you're calculating the optimal turn for a diplomatic victory. Still playing. Still losing. Still loving it.

These type strategy games are not really my thing but it's strangely addicting.

This Civ is really good if you like domination via a large naval fleet. You can have dozens if not hundreds of naval units without it breaking your bank. Something CIV VI doesn't do as well and CIV VII? Well, we don't talk about that one

The BEST Civilization game ever. hands down. This game is so good that so many changes in Civ 6 look ridiculous, let alone Civ 7. When you learn the mechanics of this game, it's almost impossible to quit it.

I love this game, its super duper fun, and napolieons face.... BUY IT!

Civ at its finest before it became too complex or visually stressful. With active multiplayer communities still thriving and game enhanced via modding, it will truly stand the test of time.

Build city, get ships, take ships to other cities, take over other cities, use other cities to make more ships, take over even more other cities, win.

For those of you who have played undertale, this game is nothing like it. It's definately fun and i would recommend playing it, but until the devs at features that were in undertale, i would not recommend playing this game

For an old game its still pretty good. The artstyle is still p cool. They cooked with the leader background

I'll be honest, I don't know if I like this game, but I start playing it, blink, and suddenly 8 hours passed and I have to be up for work.

Play this game on mac os. Very good experience. At the moment my favorite part in CIVILIZATION games

Its an amazing game only the best from this franchise. However.... It has one fatal flaw and that is to do with the capture of city's. The problem is if you take over a city with a full health melee regiment and that city HP pool is low enough for its capture your soldiers will march on in and take over while losing about half of their hp, this is not to take into consideration of the garrisoned unit inside the city. Now if it was a range unit garrisoned i would expect their fight to take place in the city and get destroyed by overwhelming them that makes sense, but if it was a melee unit garrisoned i would expect to be going against the HP pool of city AND the garrison with just my melee unit, but no. Instead you could take the city with no problems disregarding whoever is garrison inside the city (that makes no sense) lose half your regiments hp and get counter attacked by some regiment that could have FULL hp or just a slither of health left it does not matter, That bugs me the wrong way and just allows tedious take over the city ruining its population and construction time, its like you have to completely clear the area before you take over and you need a lot of troops for that.

great strategy game, that really makes you think about alliances and your actions

[h3] A classic for a reason, Civ 5 is a game every gamer should have in their library. 5/5 [/h3] [i] On my scale, a 5/5 game is a masterpiece. These games stay with you and invoke the strongest sense of accomplishment, mastery, and creativity. Some may change your life, while others provide a perfect gaming experience. Some of these define their genres and cast shadows everyone else dreams of escaping, while others completely transform the genre entirely or open up a whole new pathway for game development. [/i] Civ 5 is so good, it casts a shadow over the rest of the franchise. They need to innovate to justify why you would ever buy something new instead of Civ 5, but they already created the perfect Civ game so they’re cooked. 5 > 6 > 7 Civ 5 is like playing a virtual board game, with a ton of potential complexity (but also with a certain simplicity to it). Most of the Civs play demonstrably different, although standardized strategies continue to work. Highly recommend my personal favorite settings, which involve randomizing everything including starting Civ and seeing what you have to deal with. Under no circumstances should anyone ever pay full price for this. Wait for one of the quarterly steam sales when it and [i] all [/i] of the DLCs go on sale for like 90% off. Buy the bundle for like $15-20 and you have a game that will give you hundreds of hours of fun alone AND with friends. At the same time, under no circumstances should anyone play the base game of this. It is criminal that buying this game without DLC is even an option. You either play this with all the add ons or not at all. Base Civ is so bare it is the video game equivalent of eating cardboard.

The game that started my addiction to the genre and series. Despite how old the game is, I still love the art style and gameplay and can return to at anytime. So many hours spent in this game with a great amount of leaders and scenarios to try. Definitely need to have DLC to fully enjoy the game but definitely worth it.

My first Civ game I played. I tried 6 but it honestly wasnt as good as 5. 7 is just a steaming pile of you know what. this 15 year old game still has me addicted to building an empire to stand the test of time. Also if youre a mac user, there is a bug where if an ai liberates their capital it crashes the game and there's no fix for that other than not letting ais recapture their capitals. I've had to cheese a few games to get around this. REALLY wish this was fixed when the devs cared for this game

ive probably got about 500 total hours on this game and still dont know every civ very well. civ 5 blows civ 6 out of the water. although i like the concepts introduced in civ 6 i think civ 5 does better on the basics and it shows. plus its just nostalgic for me because its the first one i really played.

If you have an OLD windows and hardware. Best game to play for hours and hours. Update: This won't start anymore.

If you like strategy games this is a great pick. There's also some good mods out there that add/improve it.

One of mt favorite games so if you planning to get the game get it. You are a disgrace for thinking about getting it. Just get it

One of the best, if not the best installment in te Civ series. 10/10 would nuke Gandhi again

Was given to me as a Christmas gift . If you look at the big picture you can spend hours upon hours replaying this game. After I had a few strokes , I used the game to try think ahead of the ai's .