Civilization 5
Firaxis Games' Civilization 5 was released in September 2010 and continued the iconic grand-strategy series with another critically-acclaimed entry. Like its predecessors, Civilization 5 puts the player in control of an entire civilization and tasks them with expanding it over many centuries with the ultimate goal of reaching one of the game's victory conditions.
Sid Meier's Civilization 5
- Franchise
- Sid Meier's Civilization
- Platform(s)
- PC
- Released
- September 21, 2010
- Developer(s)
- Firaxis Games
- Genre(s)
- Strategy
- ESRB
- E10+ For Everyone 10+ due to Drug Reference, Mild Language, Mild Violence
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