Which is your favorite Sid Meier's Civilization game? - StrawPoll
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What is your opinion? Vote now: 1991 Sid Meier's Civilization, 1996 Sid Meier's Civilization II, 2001 Sid Meier's Civilization III, 2005 Sid Meier's Civilization IV, 2010 Sid Meier's

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Do you have a favorite in the series? Which one do you want try and what do you would avoid? Is there any alternative game series you prefer over Civilization?

Sid Meier’s Civilization Series: Wikipedia

  1. (1991) Civilization: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB | Metacritic: - / -
  2. (1996) Civilization II: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB | Metacritic: 94 / 8.6
  3. (2001) Civilization III: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB |Metacritic: 90 / 8.4
  4. (2005) Civilization IV: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB | Metacritic: 94 / 8.4
  5. (2010) Civilization V: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB | Metacritic: 90 / 8.1
  6. (2016) Civilization VI: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB | Metacritic: 88 / 7.3
  7. (2025) Civilization VII: MobyGames | GameFAQs | IGDB | Metacritic: 79 / 3.8

My story

I started with Civilization 1 on Super Nintendo. Amazing game, worked well with gamepad optimized port, but loading times were abysmal in late game. Won all matches by domination. Later played Civilization 2 on Playstation 1. Won all matches by domination too. This time loading times were even worse, to a point I stopped playing because of this. My next game in series was much later when Civilization 5 came out on PC, then later Civilization 6. Both great games. Its the first time I won by other means than domination and the loading times were not an issue anymore. Just purchased and downloaded Civilization 4, which I will try out after posting this.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I used Steam Depot to rollback RDR2 in order to make a mod work about 2 years ago. If nothing has changed it should still work, although it is admittedly more fussy than version rollback on GOG.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Yes, this is not a real solution to me. Also the games will be auto updated, so the auto update of the client is still in the way. And this gets even worse for simple plug and play sessions as in Steam Deck handheld in example. I could not recommend this to non technical users. They would even have trouble finding the correct ID for the exact depot to download. This is way more complicated than it should be, and I say that as someone who likes to use the terminal.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        1·
        2 hours ago

        There are ways to get around the auto update, but those are also futzy. I agree that this is one of the few complaints about Steam that I have.