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Sid Meier's Civilization V

Original title: Sid Meier's Civilization V - September 21, 2010
Sid Meier's Civilization V
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Director:Jon Shafer
Studio:2K Games
Stars:William Morgan Sheppard, Émile Khordoc, John Eric Bentley - Full View
Soundtrack:Sid Meier's Civilization V Original Soundtrack — Geoff Knorr & Michael Curran, recorded with the FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague; main 'Civilization V Theme' by Geoff Knorr
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Award
Game
Best Strategy Game
Winner
2011
D.I.C.E. Awards
Game
Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Nominee
2011

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Game Details
Developer
Firaxis Games
Publisher
2K Games
Studio
2K Games
Genres
Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux
Release Date
September 21, 2010
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
90
Game Engine
Firaxis LORE

Sid Meier's Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game where the player leads a civilization from the stone-age all the way to future tech, there is more than one way to win, achieving one of a number of different victory conditions through research, exploration, diplomacy, expansion, economic development, government and military conquest. You will face other civilizations, either online as other people or played by the computer, civilization 5 features a advanced diplomacy system when dealing with computer controlled civs or computer controlled city-states.

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Last updated: 15.07.2026
Business
Budget
Not disclosed
RevenueReported
8M+ copies sold
over 8 million, the best-selling Civilization entry until Civilization VI
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Firaxis/2K-disclosed per-game milestone (~8M+); no exact date, and no development budget or dollar-revenue figure was published.

Time to Beat
Main Story12h
Main + Extras53h
Completionist511h
Language Support
Language
AudioSubUI
German
Spanish (Spain)
Italian
French
English
Chinese (Traditional)
Korean
Japanese
Russian
Polish
Content Rating
Violence
In-Game Purchases
Mild Violence
Mild Language
Drug Reference
PEGI 12
GRAC 12+
ESRB E10+
USK 12
ACB PG
System Requirements
Minimum
OS:Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
CPU:Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
RAM:2GB RAM
GPU:256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0c Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Sound:DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card Note: Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device
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Data aggregated from 3 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Metacritic
Last updated: 15.07.2026