Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #293

By | July 20, 2026

It’s right in the middle of summer, and what would be a better use of a sunny day than conquering the world? Therefore, we give you the next chance for that with the Civ5 GOTM again! If you want to compete against all the civfanatics about who’s best at Civ5, then we have the right competition for you!… Read More »

Pirates Mod for Sid Meier’s Colonization

By | July 19, 2026

CivFanatics member NotJohnSmith has released a pirates mod for Sid Meier’s Colonization. He describes the mod as transforming Colonization into a fun pirate-themed experience with things like Infamy instead of Crosses, Pirate Hideouts instead of Missions, pirate-themed advisor portraits, rewritten texts and lots of smaller flavor changes. He’s also currently replacing the Founding Fathers with historical and fictional… Read More »

Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #26

By | July 17, 2026

We got a new Civ7 GOTM, and in the burning sun we’re sending you on a hike up the mountains: This months we want you to play as Pachacuti of the Inca on a standard size Fractal map on Viceroy level. You get a light disaster intensity, crisis, and shorter ages, and you must win via an economics… Read More »

Imperial Ambitions – now released!

By | July 13, 2026

For people with a longing for some retro-experience, we got a new game release for you: Imperial Ambitions. This game is a historic turn-based strategy game, so the right thing for the civfanatics crowd. You play a civilization during the age of imperialism, and you try to dominate the old and the new world. As normal for these… Read More »

Imperialist – 2nd trailer

By | July 8, 2026

Dale, co-developer of Old World, has today released another trailer for his upcoming game “Imperialist”. The game is targeted at the old-school crowd who are yearning for some Colonization-like gameplay. The new trailer shows us the production screen, the battle screen, the new ingame graphics, as well as some parts of a seemingly North-American map. Interested? Join the… Read More »

Play the new Civ7 “Game Of The Month” #25

By | July 6, 2026

The summer is hot, therefore we’re providing you a GOTM which is a bit cooler: In this game, you will play Ada Lovelace of rainy and not sunny Britain on a standard size Archipelago map with low sea level on Deity level. You also get low disaster intensity for this game, and continuous civs. Do you think you… Read More »

Imperium – a spiritual successor to Ascendancy

By | May 21, 2026

This will test the memories of many of our CivFanatics but do any of you remember the 1995 classic Ascendancy? After Master of Orion took the Civilization formula to the stars many other 4X space games followed each with a different take, and Ascendancy’s big change was constructing buildings in terrain slots across the planet surface as well… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #289

By | May 20, 2026

It’s the middle of May, and we got a new Civ5 GOTM for you! This time the settings are a bit more special, because this game has the “One City Challenge” enabled, making it extra hard! You play as Bismarck of Germany on a standard size Pangaea map on King level. You must win this game via culture,… Read More »