Category Archives: Civilization IV

Civ4 related news items

2K Winter Sale

By | December 21, 2025

2K has currently a winter sale, which includes big discounts for Civ4, Civ5, Civ:BE, Civ6 and Civ7! This also includes the Civ7 DLCs (besides Tides Of Power, which is currently free). For people who already have all the civ games, there are also discounts for Marvel Midnight Suns, as well as XCOM 1 and 2 (among other, less… Read More »

Civilization 4 & Civ4-Colonization Scenario/Mod Preservation Project

By | December 3, 2025

We recently posted about Blake’s new Civ3 preservation project continuing the work from his old Civ2 preservation project which went on to preserve several thousand lost Civ2 mods & scenarios. Now he’s kicked off a new Civilization 4 & Civ4-Colonization scenario/mods preservation project starting with 3 large collections totaling around 9 Gigabytes. If you’re a fan of Civ4 and its mods then we… Read More »

Firaxis developer sale – 10% to 80% off on Firaxis games, until November 17

By | November 9, 2025

As the title says: Firaxis has currently a developer sale going on, and all their big titles are on sale (exception: Alpha Centauri, which is not on sale).This includes everything from Civ3 to Civ7, with the excepton of some of the Civ6 DLCs.Civ7 is currently 35% off, Civ6 and DLCs between 25 and 50%, and the rest of… Read More »

25 years of Civfanatics – a retrospective – UPDATE: Also Civ4 anniversary

By | October 25, 2025

Time flies, when you’re playing civ, and the same applies when you are browsing the forums! Today is one of the days which can be considered the birthday of Civfanatics, and we turn 25, which is in the age of the internet nearly biblical. For this occasion we have written a retrospective, which hopefully includes the most interesting… Read More »

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #297

By | October 15, 2025

Also for October you get again the monthly challenge for Civ4 with our “Game Of The Month”. This time we want you to play as Kublai Khan on a standard size custom continents map with high sea level on Prince difficulty. You are free to choose your own way how to dominate this planet. You got until November… Read More »

Steam autumn sale – Civ7 30% off, Civ7 DLCs 20-33% off (also all other civ titles with huge discounts) … and hints for future Civ7 content

By | October 1, 2025

The Steam autumn sale is currently going on, and the Civ titles are getting some discounts: For other Civ titles, we have: Currently there are no discounts for Civ3. And some more interesting news: Some forum sleuths found some good indicators for some future content, please check here.

Civ4 for free for Amazon Prime members

By | September 6, 2025

If you got Amazon Prime, then you can currently get the Civ4: Complete Edition for free. This offer is valid until December 3. The version which you get on Prime is a key for GOG.com, meaning you do not have to use Prime to play Civ4, and Civ4 will be available for you also after December 3. If… Read More »

Civ7: Settlers edition now available, and 30% on Civ7 (and more sales)

By | August 11, 2025

Firaxis has today announced the “Settler Edition” for Civ7: This is a Civ7 edition which contains everything from the founders edition (not anymore available), besides some cosmetic items. This includes the Tecumseh DLC, the Rights To Rule and Crosswrods of the World DLC and 4 leader personas. You can have a look at the overview at the official… Read More »