Sid Meier's Civilization® V
BANGER · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 39.6h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in March 2026. 50 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Sid Meier's Civilization® IV ($19.99, scores 87) and Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete ($4.99, scores 81).
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 2,205 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 39.6 hours; clearing it takes 423, which is 11 times the campaign.
16 years after release it still had 12.2K people in it at once.
The drop-off
89% start to 30% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
12.2K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game is simply a lot of fun to play. You can step away for a moment and come back when the life permits which makes this a go to for me on days I need a small respite.
Civilization V hands down, the best of the series. The series jumped the shark after this version.
Цива - це коли твій сусід ліває на 30 хід маючи 3 солі під столицею. Цива - це коли тіп називає голе місто без нічого, без прісної води, без ресурсів у пустелі (дачу Сіда Мейєра) ідеальним містом. Цива - це коли ти робиш рестарт 5 спроб пограти в ряд. Цива - це коли ти принципово п'єш чай та каву без цукру бо тебе флешбекає на болота. Цива - це коли на рандомі тобі випадає франція і ти хочеш догалілеїтись з першого...
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/8930/sid-meier-s-civilization-vThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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