Category Archives: Civilization V

Civ5 related news items

Geoff Knorr: “Thrilled to share the CivV soundtrack is now available (finally!) on streaming services worldwide”

By | December 4, 2025

Geoff Knorr, one of the creators of the Civ5 soundtrack, has announced today on Twitter that you can now find the whole Civ5 soundtrack online.The more than 100 music pieces are now available on most likely one of your favourite streaming services, check them out here, and discuss with us here.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #277

By | November 18, 2025

We start winter with another challenge for you. In this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” you play as Dido of Carthage on a small “large islands” map on Prince level. You must win via a domination victory, but all victories are enabled, meaning you must prevent other civs from e.g. winning a space or culture victory. The deadline… Read More »

Top 10 Highest-Grossing Turn-Based RPGs And Strategy Games of all time – Including Civ5+6

By | November 13, 2025

The good people over at TurnBasedLovers have put together a list of the highest grossing turn-based games, no matter if strategy or RPG.Unsurprisingly, this also does include some Civ titles, with Civ5 coming 4th, and Civ6 coming 2nd.The list claims that Civ5 brought in $179 million on Steam, and Civ6 $358 million on Steam.They guys put together the… 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 »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #276

By | November 2, 2025

The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and this is the perfect opportunity for more civ! And therefore we are giving you the next challenge for Civ5: In this “Game Of The Month” we ask you to play as Attila The Hun, on a standard-size great plains map on Deity level. The challenge is not… 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 Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #274

By | October 6, 2025

For October we got you a brutal GOTM for Civ5: You play as Enrico Dandolo of Venice, and you need to win via a Domination victory, leaving the world in ashes. The game is set on a standard size “Small Continents Plus” map on Emperor. While you’re subjugating the world you still need to pay attention that no… 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.