Sid Meier’s Civilization V is one of those games—if not *the* game—where “just 5 more minutes” spirals into 4 hours and a cup of coffee later, when you’ll repeat the mantra in a futile attempt to break the game’s hold on you.
Civilization V continues to be one of the most popular grand-strategy games you can play on Steam, for about three years.
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Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.
